Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice

M. Therese Lysaught is professor at Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Health Care Leadership at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine​ and Loyola’s Institute of Pastoral Studies. As a visiting scholar with the Catholic Health Association, she authored Caritas in Communion: Theological Foundations of Catholic Health Care (2014), an important resource for Catholic mission and identity. Her other co-edited volumes include On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives on Medical Ethics, 3rd edition (2012), and the award-winning Gathered for the Journey: Moral Theology in Catholic Perspective (2007).Michael McCarthy, PhD, is assistant professor at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Health Care Leadership at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine​. He earned his PhD in theology at Loyola University Chicago and his MTS from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology (now the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry). He co-directs the Physician’s Vocation Program, focusing on the formation of future physicians rooted in Ignatian Spirituality. His scholarly focuses include social justice and bioethics, clinical ethics consultation, and physician formation.

"In one adroit volume, M. Therese Lysaught and Michael McCarthy bring together the rich tradition of Catholic social thought, a fresh reading of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, and key interdisciplinary thought leaders in service of the most pressing ethical issues healthcare faces today. Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice is a gift not only for ethicists, theologians, and mission leaders but for anyone interested in the integrity of Catholic health care."Michael Miller, Jr. System Vice President, Mission & Ethics, SSM Health"Any reader interested in the implications of current conversations on US health care policy may well find Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice a welcome and instructive starting point."Reading Religion"This excellent volume is a blast of fresh air that invites readers into an expansive ethical inquiry outside the confining medical and research spaces where bioethicists often focus. Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice is both a scholarly and a teaching resource. When I select teaching texts, I seek just this combination of lively moral portraits and clear evidence to provoke discussion combined with substantive ethical concepts for students to exercise in sharpening their moral imaginations. Essays are accessible, compact, and substantive."Monash Bioethics Review"The volume laudably brings Catholic social thought to bear on Catholic bioethics and raises awareness of a host of important issues."Journal of Moral Theology

• Contents  Foreword xiiiLisa Sowle CahillAcknowledgments xviiIntroductionCatholic Bioethics Meets Catholic Social Thought: The Problematic, a Primer, and a Plan 1  PART ONEAccompanying Vulnerable Communities 25Chapter 1Health Care Providers on the Frontline: Responding to the Gun Violence Epidemic 31Michelle Byrne, MD, MPH, Virginia McCarthy, Abigail Silva, and Sharon HomanChapter 2Catholic Bioethics and Invisible Problems: Human Trafficking, Clinical Care, and Social Strategy 47Alan Sanders, Kelly R. Herron, and Carly MesnickChapter 3Far From Disadvantaged: Encountering Persons with Mental Illness 63Abraham M. Nussbaum, MDChapter 4Integral Ecology in Catholic Health Care: A Case Study for Health Care and Community to Accelerate Equity 77Cory D. Mitchell, Armand Andreoni, and Lena Hatchett  PART TWOCountering Injustice in the Patient-Physician Encounter 93Chapter 5Neglected Voices at the Beginning of Life: Prenatal Genetics and Reproductive Justice 97Aana Marie VigenChapter 6Bewildering Accompaniment: The Ethics of Caring for Gender Non-Conforming Children and Adolescents 113Michael McCarthyChapter 7Greening the End of Life: Refracting Clinical Ethics through an Ecological Prism 129Cristina RichieChapter 8Racial Disparities at the End of Life and the Catholic Social Tradition 143Sheri Bartlett Browne and Christian Cintron  PART THREEIncarnating a Just Workplace 161Chapter 9Unions in Catholic Health Care: A Paradox 165Daniel P. DwyerChapter 10Inviting the Neighborhood into the Hospital: Diversifying Our Health Care Organizations 179Robert J. GordonChapter 11The Rocky Road of Women and Health Care: A Gender Roadmap 199Jana Marguerite BennettChapter 12Continuing the Ministry of Mission Doctors 217Brian Medernach, MD, and Antoinette Lullo, DO  PART FOURLeading for Social Responsibility 231Chapter 13A Call to Conversion: Toward a Catholic Environmental Bioethics and Environmentally Responsible Health Care 235Ron HamelChapter 14DACA and Institutional Solidarity 253Mark KuczewskiChapter 15Reframing Outsourcing 267M. Therese Lysaught and Robert J. DeVitaChapter 16Catholic Health Care and Population Health: Insights from Catholic Social Thought 283Michael Panicola and Rachelle Barina  PART FIVEEmbodying Global Solidarity 297Chapter 17Body Politics: Medicine, the Church, and the Scandal of Borders 301Brian Volck, MDChapter 18Creating Partnerships to Strengthen Global Health Systems 315Bruce ComptonChapter 19Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries: Putting Palliative Care on the Global Health Agenda 329Alexandre Andrade Martins, MIChapter 20Humanitarian Ethics: From Dignity and Solidarity to Response and Research 343Dónal O’MathúnaPART SIXReimagining Frontiers 359Chapter 21Research as a Restorative Practice: Catholic Social Teaching and the Ethics of Biomedical Research 363Jorge José Ferrer, SJChapter 22Environmental Ethics as Bioethics 377Andrea Vicini, SJ, MD, and Tobias WinrightChapter 23A Social Bioethics of Genetics 389Hille HakerChapter 24For-Profit Health Care: An Economic Perspective 405Charles M. A. ClarkContributors 427