Bioethics


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**Reference books**: on the first floor
Addresses Timeless problems along with the most pressing concerns of today drawing on the philosophical and religious traditions of the whole world. || H588 ||< __ Encyclopedia of values and__ __ethics__. c1996. ||
 * < R 174.2 R347 ||< __Encyclopedia of Bioethics.__ New York : Macmillan, 2003, 1995.
 * < R 610 C244 ||< __Health, disease, and illness : concepts in medicine.__ Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2004. ||
 * < R 170
 * < R 170 E56 ||< __ Encyclopedia of__ __ethics.__ c1992. ||
 * < R 503 M167 ||< __Encyclopedia of science, technology, and ethics__. c2005. ||
 * < R 261.808 N532 ||< __The New Dictionary of Catholic social thought__. c1994. ||
 * < R 270 O982 ||< __ The Oxford companion to christian thought .__ c2000. ||
 * < R 282 H436 ||< __The Heart of Catholicism essential writings of the Church from St. Paul to John Paul II__. c1997. ||
 * < R 364.15 G335 ||< __ Encyclopedia of__ __genocide__. c1999. ||

**Use the following terms to search the catalog and find books upstairs:**
bioethic* medic* ethic* church teach*

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 * Get some background information in the **[|New Catholic Encyclopedia - 2nd ed.]**


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 * **[|Science]** databases will also help you with some bioethical issues.


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