TH 512 - Catholic Medical Ethics

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: Final Paper

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

• Understand the dynamics of medical and health care ethics constructed on the basis of Catholic insight. 
• Show how Catholic medical and health care ethics respond to the basic human question, “How does one attain happiness?”
• Explain the directives for Catholic health care found in Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. 
• Apply Catholic medical and health care ethics to specific issues in the areas of sexuality and reproduction, reconstructing and modifying the body, mental health, suffering and death, social responsibility, and pastoral care. 
• Become familiar with the teaching of Pope John Paul II on the “Gospel of Life.”