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PDFMedical Ethics: Sources of Catholic Teaching
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Edited by K O'Rourke, P Boyle. Georgetown University Press, 1999, £26.95, pp 442. ISBN 0878407227
This third edition of O'Rourke and Boyle's Medical Ethics: Sources of Catholic Teaching is a useful and comprehensive collection of statements published, for the most part, by the central authorities of the Roman Catholic Church, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the United States and the bishops' conferences of individual US states on a wide range of issues in the area of medical ethics. …
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