QUESTIONS
1) Explain how Theology Informing HealthCare helped you understand medical ethics. Given that this course involved Catholic theological perspectives, but also others, such as the WOM, what ideas made sense to you and which ones challenged you – and why. Can the content of this course help you care for yourself and loved ones in the future? Explain your answers.
2) Explain how Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services address the following topics: the importance of Jesus with respect to health care in general, the importance of “spiritual services,” the relationship between provider and patient, sexuality and reproduction, abortion and contraception, and end-of-life care. In your response quote and cite two relevant passages.
3) According to Paul VI, what methods of birth control are “unlawful” and why? What does he say will be some consequences for societies that adopt them? What methods are morally legitimate and why? In your response quote and cite two relevant passages. (10 points)
4) How do Curlin and Tollefsen understand autonomy? What are two misunderstandings in their view, and what are two forms of authority necessary for medical care? In your response quote and cite two relevant passages.
5) According to Curlin and Tollefsen, what is the difference between how the PSM and the WOM approach artificial contraception, assisted reproduction, and sexual reassignment surgery? In your response quote and cite two relevant passages.
6) According to Curlin and Tollefsen, what is the difference between how the PSM and the WOM approach abortion? How do the authors view the principle of double effect as it applies to life-saving abortions? In your response quote and cite two relevant passages.
7) According to Curlin and Tollefsen, what is the difference between how the PSM and the WOM approach Abe’s and Nora’s respective health conditions regarding end-of-life care? What is the primary problem with the PSM when it comes to end-of-life care? In your response quote and cite two relevant passages.
8) Who wrote the preface to The Way of Medicine?
9) In what year was the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church published or promulgated?
10) Who wrote Dignitas Infinita?
11) According to the preamble of Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, the document refers to which previous document published in 1981?
12) How does Paul VI specifically counsel doctors and nurses in Humanae vitae?
Reading Reference
1) Curlin and Tollefsen, The Way of Medicine, chs. 9-10, pp. 159-197
2) USCCB, Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, Part 6, Conclusion, pp. 23-27
3) CDF, Declaration on Euthanasia:
4) CDF, Samaritanus Bonus:
[for context, read Luke 10:29-37:
5) Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dignitas Infinita, pars. 1-6; 17-62:
6) Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, II-II, q. 64, art. 7:
7) USCCB, Catechism of the Catholic Church, pars. 2258-2283:
8) Paul VI, Humanae vitae:
9) CDF, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day:
[Read only Part Two on “Interventions upon Human Procreation]
10) United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, Preamble, General Introduction, pp. 4-7.
11) Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, paragraphs 105-107; 144-148; 155; 160-165:
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