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Health Care Ethics USA
This is the second issue of the revised format of the ejournal, Health Care Ethics USA, published by the recently expanded Catholic Health Ethics Partnership (CHEP). The ejournal will continue to use the year and number identifiers in continuity with the original format. As editor of the ejournal, I welcome our new health system members. The journal is designed to assist ethics committee members and other health professionals in Catholic health care. And the electronic format is adopted to facilitate easy and widespread distribution of the ejournal across different health systems. The new format for the ejournal presents essays of just 1000 words (previously they were considerably longer) with a brief executive summary - the new format is designed to make it easier for busy health professionals to find time for the essays. The original version of each issue of Health Care Ethics USA is archived online for CHEP members who have online access to the current and all of the previous issues at: http://chce.slu.edu/chep.html. After connecting to "log in to the current issue", the User Name is, hceusa (lower case only), and the Password is, 2005. This second issue of the new format for Health Care Ethics USA contains three essays. The first essay is by Jan C. Heller, PhD, who is the System Director of Ethics and Theology at Providence Health System. His essay is on "Discussing the Theological Grounds of Moral Principles" in the context of Catholic health care. The second essay is by John Paul Slosar, PhD, who is the Director of Ethics at Ascension Health, Saint Louis, Missouri. His essay considers "Discontinuing Implantable Cardiac Devices & the ERDs." The third essay is by John Brehany, PhD, who is the Director of Mission Services and Ethics at Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa. His essay discusses "Nontraditional Sources of Pluripotent Stem Cells: A New Chapter in the Debate about Embryonic Stem Cell Research." I hope you enjoy the essays and I look forward to receiving suggestions for topics that we might address in future issues. For ejournal email, please contact: hceusa@slu.edu. Professor Gerard Magill, PhD Index | Next: Discussing the Theological Grounds of Moral Principles |
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