Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Catholic bioethics meets Catholic social thought: the problematic, a primer, and a plan -- Part one. Accompanying vulnerable communities -- Chapter 1. Health care providers on the frontline: responding to the gun violence epidemic / Michelle Byrne, MD, MPH, Virginia McCarthy, Abigail Silva, and Sharon Homan -- Chapter 2. Catholic bioethics and invisible problems: human trafficking, clinical care, and social strategy / Alan Sanders, Kelly R. Herron, and Carly Mesnick -- Chapter 3. Far from disadvantaged: encountering persons with mental illness / Abraham M. Nussbaum, MD -- Chapter 4. Integral ecology in Catholic health care: a case study for health care and community to accelerate equity / Cory D. Mitchell, Armand Andreoni, and Lena Hatchett -- Part Two. Countering injustice in the patient-physician encounter -- Chapter 5. Neglected voices at the beginning of life: prenatal genetics and reproductive justice / Aana Marie Vigen -- Chapter 6. Bewildering accompaniment: the ethics of caring for gender non-conforming children and adolescents / Michael McCarthy -- Chapter 7. Greening the end of life: refracting clinical ethics through an ecological prism / Cristina Richie -- Chapter 8. Racial disparities at the end of life and the Catholic social tradition / Sheri Bartlett Browne and Christian Cintron -- Part Three. Incarnating a just workplace -- Chapter 9. Unions in Catholic health care: a paradox / Daniel P. Dwyer -- Chapter 10. Inviting the neighborhood into the hospital: diversifying our health care organizations / Robert J. Gordon -- Chapter 11. The rocky road of women and health care: a gender roadmap / Jana Marguerite Bennett -- Chapter 12. Continuing the ministry of mission doctors / Brian Medernach, MD, and Antoinette Lullo, DO --

Part Four. Leading for social responsibility -- Chapter 13. A call to conversion: toward a Catholic environmental bioethics and environmentally responsible health care / Ron Hamel -- Chapter 14. DACA and institutional solidarity / Mark Kuczewski -- Chapter 15. Reframing outsourcing / M. Therese Lysaught and Robert J. DeVita -- Chapter 16. Catholic health care and population health: insights from Catholic social thought / Michael Panicola and Rachelle Barina -- Part Five. Embodying global solidarity -- Chapter 17. Body politics: medicine, the church, and the scandal of borders / Brian Volck, MD -- Chapter 18. Creating partnerships to strengthen global health systems / Bruce Compton -- Chapter 19. Non-communicable and chronic diseases in developing countries: putting palliative care on the global health agenda / Alexandre Andrade Martins, MI -- Chapter 20. Humanitarian ethics: from dignity and solidarity to response and research / Dónal O'Mathúna -- Part Six. Reimagining frontiers -- Chapter 21. Research as a restorative practice: Catholic social teaching and the ethics of biomedical research / Jorge José Ferrer, SJ -- Chapter 22. Environmental ethics as bioethics / Andrea Vicini, SJ, MD, and Tobias Winright -- Chapter 23. A social bioethics of genetics / Hille Haker -- Chapter 24. For-profit health care: an economic perspective / Charles M.A. Clark -- Contributors.

Catholic health care is one of the key places where the church lives Catholic social teaching (CST). Yet the individualistic methodology of Catholic bioethics inherited from the manualist tradition has yet to incorporate this critical component of the Catholic moral tradition. Informed by the places where Catholic health care intersects with the diverse societal injustices embodied in the patients it encounters, this book brings the lens of CST to bear on Catholic health care, illuminating a new spectrum of ethical issues and practical recommendations from social determinants of health, immigration, diversity and disparities, behavioral health, gender-questioning patients, and environmental and global health issues. --