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Health and Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine, and Moral Anthropology, with Carol Taylor (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006)

History of Bioethics: International Perspectives, with Corrado Viafora (San Francisco: International Scholars Publications, 1996)

Esperienza morale e persona. Per una rilettura dell’etica fenomenologica di Dietrich von Hildebrand (Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1996)



Articles + Book Chapters

"Origins, Birth and the Devaluation of Nature: Metaphysical Observations on Reproductive Cloning," Milltown Studies (forthcoming)

"The Physician, the Image, and the Absent Patient: Notes on the Ethics of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine," in Proceedings of SENTINEL Workshop, European Commission (forthcoming)

"Bioéthique et recherche du sens en medicine," in Armelle de Bouvet et Jean-Philippe Coubbaut (ed.), Une bioéthique pour un monde habitable?  La bioéthique en discussion (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2006), 41-56

"La dimensione ermeneutica nell’esperienza della cura: una ricognizione fenomenologica," in Corrado Viafora and Silvia Mocellin (ed.), L’argomentazione nel giudizio bioetico (Milano: Franco Angeli, 2006), 183-198

"La Contribucion de la Religion a la Bioetica," in Vida y Etica, 6/1 (2005): 25-40 

"Cloning, Marriage, and Family: Ideological Premises and Forgotten Issues," INTAMS review 11(2005): 67-79

"Interpreting Clinical Judgment: Epistemological Notes on the Praxis of Medicine," in (ed.) Corrado Viafora, Clinical Bioethics: A Search for the Foundations (Dordrecht: Springer Academic Publisher, 2005), 155-168

"Il rapporto medico paziente e i fini della medicina," in (ed.) Marianna Gensabella Furnari, Il paziente, il medico e l’arte della cura (Messina: Rubettino, 2005), 33-51

"La tecnologia genetica: tra promessa terapeutica e responsabilita’ morale," in S. Pisu, G.Castello and G. Caocci (ed.), Scienza e coscienza.  Questioni cruciali per la bioetica (Cagliari: Edizioni CUSL, 2005), 121-134

"Contextualizando la discussion sobre clonacion: premises ideologicas y asuntos olvidados," Vida y Etica vol. 4 (2003), no. 2: 53-65

"La bioetica clinica come etica applicata: problemi teorici della consulenza etica nell’istituzione sanitaria," in (eds.) Mario Picozzi, Mario. Taviani and Paolo Cattorini, Verso una professionalizzazione del bioeticista (Milano: Giuffre’, 2003), 42-66

"Il rapporto medico paziente: una descrizione fenomenologica," in (ed.) Marianna Gensabella Furnari, Alle frontiere della vita: eutanasia ed etica del morire (Soveria Mannelli: Rubettino, 2003), 20-34

"The Climate of Western Bioethics: Between Individual Liberalism and Social Solidarity," in Bioethics in Multicultural Space: Locating Values and Translating Lessons (Proceedings of the International Academic Conference of Bioethics, Changsha, China, December 2-4, 2002)

"La Bioetica en Estados Unidos: Universidad Catolica Argentica-Georgetown Dialogos de Bioetica," Vida y Ética 3 (2002): 19-41

"Theological Discourse and the Postmodern Condition: The Case of Bioethics," Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 18 (2002) 3: 127-136

"L’eticista come mediatore," in Janus 8 (2002): 50-56

"Market Ethos and the Integrity of Health Care," Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, 18 (2002) 3: 641-647

"On the Ethics of Twins Separation: Analysis of a Recent Case," Itinerarium 10 (2002): 89-106

"Philosophy and Program of the Center for Clinical Bioethics," Itinerarium 10 (2002): 17-31

"Integrity and Compliance: Medicine and the Ethics of Health Care Institutions," Health Progress (September-October 2001): 29-36

"The Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University: Philosophy and Activities," Cuadernos de Bioetica (Edicao do Centro de Estudios de Bioética de Azores), 26 (2001): 21-36

"Confidencialidad en medecina: el problema de la proteccion de datos sanitarios," in Actas de la I Jornadas de Proteccion de Datos Sanitarios (Madrid: Agencia de Proteccion de Deatos de la Comunidad de Madrid, 2000), 69-92

"Antropologia dell’intimita’ e segreto professionale," in Quaderni di etica medica (Padova: CIC Edizioni Internazionali, 2000), 65- 79

(with Warren Reich) "A New Era for Bioethics: The Source of Meaning in Moral Experience," in (ed.) Allen Verhey, Religion and Medical Ethics: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1996): 96-119

"Esperienza e verita’ morale," Rivista di teologia morale 28 (1996): 63-82 

"Antropologia ed etica: oltre al bioetica nordamericana," Rivista di teologia morale 27 (1995): 203-220


Translations

BOOKS
Klaus Demmer, Shaping the Moral Life: An Approach to Moral Theology (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000), from the German Einführug in die Moraltheologie (unpublished manuscript)

Karl Rahner, Visioni e profezie: mistica ed esperienza della trascendenza (Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 1994), from the German Visionen und Prophezeiungen: Zur Mystik und Transzendenzerfahrung (Freiburg; Herder, 1989)

ARTICLES
Warren Reich, “Prendersi cura dei vulnerabili: il punto d’incontro tra etica secolare ed etica religiosa nel mondo pluralistico,” Istituto Trentino di Cultura (June 2001) [original in English]

Corrado Viafora, “Towards a Methodology for the Ethical Analysis of Clinical Cases,” European Society of Philosophy of Medicine (August 1997) [original in Italian]

Warren Reich, “Curare e prendersi cura. Nuovi orizzonti dell’etica infermieristica,” L’arco di Giano, 10 (January-April 1996): 9-24 [original in English]

Hans Martin Sass, “Cooperazione fiduciaria nel rapporto medico-paziente,” KOS: Rivista di medicina, cultura e scienze umane, 118 (July 1995): 46-51 [original in German]

Gilbert Greshake, “Coscienza ecologia e teologia della creazione,” in Questione ecologica e coscienza cristiana (Brescia: Morcelliana, 1988), 125-136 [original in German]

BOOK REVIEWS
Richard A. Cohen, Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation After Levinas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), in Theological Studies, (forthcoming)

 Benedict M. Ashley and Kevin O’Rourke, Ethics of Health Care: An Introductory Textbook, 3rd edition (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press), in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (forthcoming)

Andreas Lienkamp, Theodor Steinbüchels Sozialismusrezeption: Eine christliche-sozial-ethische Relekture (Paderborn: Schöning, 2000) in Theological Studies, (forthcoming)

Klaus Demmer, Angewandte Theologie des Ethischen ((Freiburg: Herder, 2003) in Theological Studies, 65 (2004): 873-875

Melanie Wolfers, Theologische Ethik als Handlungsleitende Sinnwissenschaft (Freiburg: Herder, 2003) in Theological Studies, 65 (2004): 875-876

Maurizio Chiodi, Tra cielo e terra: il senso della vita a partire dal dibattito bioetico (Assisi: Cittadella Editrice, 2002) in Theological Studies, 65 (2004): 682-683

Klaus Demmer, Fundamentale Theologie des Ethischen (Freiburg: Herder, 1999), in Theological Studies, 62 (September 2001): 633-635

Michel Maret, L’euthanasie: alternative sociale et enjeux pour l’éthique chrétienne (Editions saint-Augustin, 2000), in Theological Studies, 62 (March 2001): 188-190

Hilary Bok, Freedom and Responsibility (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), in Theological Studies, 61 (March 2000): 177-179

Quentin Smith, Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), in Theological Studies, 60 (June 1999): 379-381

Thérèse Vanier, Nick: Man of the Heart (Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 1993), in NAPM Quarterly, 26 (Spring 1995): 23-24

Henri J.M. Nouwen, With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life (New York: Orbis Book, 1994), in NAPMR Quarterly, 26 (Spring 1995): 22-23

Janet Miller Rife, Injured Mind, Shattered Dreams (Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books, 1994), in NAPM Quarterly, 25 (Fall/Winter 1994): 22-23 

Jean Vanier, The Broken Body (New York: Paulist Press, 1988), in NAPM Quarterly, 25 (Fall/Winter 1994), 23