Educational Resources

Values Assessment Resources:

The Dialogue: An effort to build national consensus through local community education around the values that we have about our healthcare decisions. For those interested in communicating with each other about experiences and ideas for shaping the future healthcare system.

Karel, Michele J., The Assessment Of Values In Medical Decision Making, Journal of Aging Studies, Jai Press, Inc., 2000.

University of New Mexico School of Law. Values History Form, Institute of Public Law. http://www.hospicefed.org/hospice_pages/print_valuesform.htm 12 June 2007

Weiler, Nicholas. Prioritizing Life Values, Career-test. http://www.career-test.biz/values_assessment.htm 12 June 2007

End of Life Issues

Kavanaugh, John F. "Death’s Dignity." America, March 8, 1997: pp. 18.

Religious/Spiritual Ethics

Cahill, Lisa Sowle. "Catholicism. Death and Modern Medicine." America Magazine, April 25, 2005: pp.14-17.

Downey, Michael. A Blessed Weakness: The Spirit of Jean Vanier and L'Arche. San Francisco: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986.

Heafitz, Lesley B., M.D. In Darkness and in Light: A Physician's Journey into Spiritual Healing. Swampscott, Massachusetts: First Person Press, 1995.

Marino, Gordon. "Never Saying You’re Sorry." Commonweal, October 10, 2003 pg. 31.

O'Connell, Timothy E. Making Disciples, A Handbook of Christian Moral Formation. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1998.

Whyte, David. The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America. New York: Currency/Doubleday, 1996.

General Bioethics

American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities. Core Competencies for Healthcare Ethics Consultation, pp. 84-28 Glenview IL, 1998.

Kuhse, Helga. " Some Reflections on The Problem of Advance Directives, Personhood and Personal Identity." Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Volume 9, Number 4, December 1999, pp. 347-365.

Neuhaus, Richard John ed. "The Ethics of Everyday Life" in The Eternal Pity, The University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2000: pp. 5-9.

Wendell, Susan. "Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability." In Bioethics: Basic Writings on the Key Ethical Questions that Surround the Major, Modern Biological Possibilities and Problems, 4th Edition. Ed. Thomas A. Shannon. Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1993.

Physician’s Perspectives

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium. Harper Collins Publishers, 1993.

Hilfiker, David M.D. Healing the Wounds: A Physician Looks at His Work. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.

Hilfiker, David M.D. Not All of Us Are Saints: A Doctor's Journey With the Poor. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994.

Other

Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future. San Francisco: HarperOne, 1987.

Neuhaus Richard John. "The Truth About Freedom." The Wall Street Journal. October 8, 1993.

O'Connell, Timothy E. Tend Your Own Garden: How to Raise Great Kids. Allen, Texas: Thomas More, 1999.

Somé, Malidoma Patrice. The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual and Community. New York: J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1998.

Wheatley, Margaret J. Leadership and the New Science: Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 1994.

Williams, Penny RN, CRNI, MS. Get Well and Stay Well While Hospitalized. Library of Congress, 2007.