The Catholic Physician's Contribution to the Life of the Church

Quoted by Diamond Eugene , This Curette for Hire, Chicago: ACTA Foundation (1977), p. 10.

Col 1: 15.

For a detailed exposition of the way in which the whole of Christian sexual morality flows from the relations between God and His people, between Christ and the Church, cf, my little book. The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality, (San Francisco: Ignatius Press), 1988.

I Tim 5: 8

American 139, p. 447, 1978, #20, Dec. 16. The rest of this paragraph I draw from memory, perhaps now faulty, of some other article I read at the time.

“Acta Apostolicae Sedis”, 35, pp. 193–248 (1943), at p. 213.

Origins 17, pp. 333–334 (1987).

Burtchaell James Rachel Weeping: the Case Against Abortion, (San Francisco: Harper & Roe). 1984, pp. 186–189, also 157ff, 164-171.

Op. cit., pp. 143–189.

Wertham Frederic A Sign for Cain: an Exploration of Human Violence. (New-York: Macmillan), 1966, chapters 8 & 9.

Lifton Robert Jay The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. (New York: Basic Books). 1966.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 9, 1988, p. A6.

Cf., especially, the booklet of Binding Karl , and Hoche Alfred Die Freigabe der vernichtung des lebensunwerten Lebens, (Leipzig: Felix Meiner), 1920, newly translated by Walter Wright of Clark University under the title On Permitting the Destruction of Unworthy Human Lives. Also of interest are the reports in JAMA from their correspondent in Berlin in the ‘20s and early ‘30s — cf. William Brennan, Medical Holocausts I: Exterminative Medicine in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America, (Houston: Nordland Publ. International), 1980, xi+392.

Alexander Leo New England Journal of Medicine 241, pp. 29–47 (1949), at 44 & 46.

Let Them Go Free, by Faso Charles N. , and Shannon Thomas A. (Kansas City, MO: Sheed & Ward). 1987, pp. 10, 11, and 14 respectively.

Cf. Medicine: An Interview by Donald McDonald with Herbert Ratner, M.D., American Character Series, (Santa Barbara, CA: The Fund for the Republic), 1962, pp. 5, 9-10, 28-32.

These can be found in substance in: Diamond Eugene F. “Sterilization in Catholic Hospitals”, Linacre Quarterly 55, pp. 57–66 especially 61ff.

Cf., e.g., Callahan Daniel “Shattuck Lecture — Contemporary Biomedical Ethics”, New England Journal of Medicine 302, 1288–1233. #22, May 29, 1980, at 1230; and, most especially. C. D. Clements and R. C. Sider, “Medical Ethics’ Assault upon Medical Values,” JAMA 250, pp. 2011-2015, #15. Oct. 21, 1983.

JAMA 260 752, #6, ag. 12.88. Cf, also the letter of Dr. Mark Siegler in the same issue. 789.