Kevin O'Rourke O.P.
        korourkeop@yahoo.com

DOCUMENTS
ON MEDICAL ETHICS

NEW

• Co-author of Health Care Ethics: A Theological Analysis, by Benedict M. Ashley, O.P., Jean deBlois, C.S.J, Kevin D. O'Rourke, O.P., 5th ed, 320 pages, $34.95 ISBN: 1589011163, Washington DC, Georgetown University Press, Oct. 2006. - - - REVIEW in America, Nov. 20, 2006
  
  
• 4th ed, 530 pp, with illus, paper, $36, ISBN 0-87840-644-1, Washington DC, Georgetown University Press, 1997. - - - JAMA Review 8/99
  
  
• Is the Human Embryo a Person? PDF   .doc download
  Essay published in the Newsletter of the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Public Policy. Volume 3, Jan. 2006
  
  
• The Decision to Remove AHN from Teresa Schiavo;
  An Analysis in the Catholic Tradition PDF   .doc download January, 2006
  
  
  

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  Kevin O'Rourke, OP:"The Catholic Tradition on Forgoing Life Support,"
        The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Autumn 2005, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 537-553
  
  Kevin O'Rourke OP & Patrick Norris OP:
        "Care of PVS Patients: Catholic Opinion in the United States"
        from The Linacre Quarterly 68:3(August, 2001) 201-217.

• Development of Church Teaching on Prolonging Life (1988)
• A Conceptual Framework for Ethics

• Ethical Issues in Health Care:

  Eighty-Seven Newsletter Essays from 1979-1997.

• Kevin O'Rourke Steps Down as Director of CHCE