Understanding church teaching. The values underlying the teachings of the Catholic Church in regard to medical ethics -- Formation of conscience -- Specific teachings of the church. Abortion -- Addiction -- Aging -- AIDS -- Anencephaly -- Artificial insemination -- Artificial reproduction -- Assisted suicide -- Autonomy -- Autopsy -- Brain death -- Capital punishment -- Catholic health care -- Children and the family -- Confidentiality -- Contraception -- Embryo research -- Ethical and religious directives -- Euthanasia -- Family and marriage -- Genetics -- Handicapped -- Health care reform -- Health care administration -- Homosexuality -- Human life -- Human rights -- Hydration and nutrition -- Informed consent -- In vitro fertilization -- Labor relations -- Living will -- Medical profession -- Murder -- National health insurance -- Natural family planning -- Nursing -- Ordinary and extraordinary means to prolong life -- Organ donation and transplantation -- Pain relief -- Pharmacology -- Population -- Proxy consent -- Principle of cooperation -- Principle of double effect -- Principle of totality -- Psychotherapy -- Public policy -- Rape -- Research on human subjects -- Right to health care -- Sacredness of human life -- Scientific knowledge -- Sexuality -- Sterilization -- Suffering -- Suicide -- surgery -- Surrogate mothers -- Truthtelling -- Withholding life support.
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