Educational Resources

General Educational Resources:
Author, Title, City, Publisher, Date

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

Bernardin, Joseph Cardinal. The Gift of Peace. Chicago: Loyola Press, 1997.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit: An American Legend. New York: Random House, 2001.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Values Assessment Resources:
Author, Title, Source, Publisher, Website, Date

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

Prioritizing Life Values. Career-test. 23 May 2007.

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

Values History Form. Hospicefed. University of New Mexico. 23 May 2007.

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

Film:
Title, Date of Production, Country of Origin, Genre, Length in Minutes, Color, Format

Awakenings (1990) US, Drama, 121 minutes, Rated PG13, Color, Tape Disk (human experimentation with coma patients)

Born on the Fourth of July (1989) US, War/drama/Biography, 144 minutes, Rated R, Color, Tape Disc (Viet Nam vet Coping with paralysis form war injuries)

Cocoon (1985) US, Science Fiction/comedy, 177 minutes, Rated PG13, Color, Tape Disk (aging)

Coma (1978) US, Thriller, 113 minutes, Rated PG, Color, Tape Disc (organ transplantation)

Frances (1982) US, Biography, 140 minutes, Rated R, Color, Tape Disc (Mental Illness)

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) US, Drama, 96 minutes, Rated R, Color, Tape (Mental Illness)

Inherit the Wind (1960) US, Drama, 127 minutes, no rating, B&W, Tape Disk (Evolution)

The Madness of King George (1994) UK/US, Historical/Drama/ Biography, 107 minutes no Rating, Color, Tape Disc (Mental Illness)

Listening to Children (1995). A Moral Journey with Robert Coles PBS Home Video, 90 minutes, videocassette.

Metropolis (1926) Germany, Fantasy/Drama, 120 minutes, No Rating, B&W Tape Disc (Futuristic, mechanized society)

A Real Horse Whisperer (1997). BBC Video, 48 minutes, videocassette, Monty Robert

On Golden Pond (1981) US, Drama/Comedy, 109 minutes, Rated PG, Color, Tape Disc (aging)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) US, Drama, 133 Minutes, Rated R, Color, Tape Disc (Institutionalization)

Ordinary People (1980) US, Drama, 123 Minutes, Rated R, Color, Tape Disc (Grief)

Outbreak (1995) US, Thriller/Disaster, 127 minutes, Rated R, Color, Tape Disc (Contagious Disease)

Rain Man (1988) US, Drama, 107 Minutes, Rated PG?13, Color, Tape Disc (Computer Takeover)

Seabiscuit (2003). PBS Home Video, 60 minutes, videocassette.

Sicko (2007). Michael Moore. Two hours. Currently in local theatres

Speak Truth to Power (2000). John F. Kennedy Performing Arts. PBS Home Video, 60 minutes, videocassette

Things You Should Know Before Entering The Hospital (2005). US, Documentary, 22 minutes, Color, DVD.

Whose Death Is It, Anyway? Choice in Dying, 55 minutes, videocassette.

Some Additional Titles to Consider:

1984 (Futuristic Society with No Privacy)
Being John Malkovich (Personhood)
Brian’s Song (Cancer, Terminal Illness)
Elephant Man (Attitudes toward patients with deformities)
Frankenstein (Human Experimentation)
John Q
Living Your Dying
Ms. Ever’s Boys (Tuskegee Experiment)
Shadowlands (Cancer, Terminal Illness)
The Story of Amy Biehl
John Grisham’s The Rainmaker
Million Dollar Baby