Books published by Georgetown University Press

As budgetary concerns have come to dominate Congressional action, the design and implementation of welfare programs have come under greater scrutiny. This book focuses on the food stamp program to examine how the integration of welfare and budgeting has affected both politics and people.

"Public reason" is one of the central concepts in modern liberal political theory. Identifying this conception as a key point of conflict, this book presents a debate among contemporary natural law and liberal political theorists on the definition and validity of the idea of public reason.

An analysis of the thought of Ignacio Ellacuria, the Jesuit philosopher. It shows why Ellacuria is significant not only as a martyr but also as a theologian. It explains how Ellacuria bases theology in a philosophy of historical reality and interprets the suffering of "the crucified people" in the light of Jesus' crucifixion.

An introduction to bioethics. It examines a comprehensive range of ethical questions and covers such topics as moral decision making, abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, life-sustaining technologies, organ transplantation, reproductive technologies, and the allocation of health care resources.

The development of the Catholic university in the United States has raised issues about its continued identity, its promise, and its academic constituents. This title explores these questions, especially as they have been experienced in Jesuit history and contemporary commitments.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the politics behind the use of mandates requiring state and local governments to implement federal policy. This book reveals how mandates have changed the way policy is formed in the United States and the fundamental relationship between the federal government and the state and local governments.

Examining public service from the perspective of the worker, this book provides a framework for understanding the roles and responsibilities of front-line public servants and assessing the appropriateness of their actions.

Offers a comprehensive collection of the critical public documents in biomedical ethics. Covering the period from 1947 to 1995, this volume brings together core legislative documents, court briefs, and reports by professional organizations, public bodies, and governments around the world.

Provides an authoritative solution to one of the major problems in the field of public policy. By introducing a justice factor - a quantitative measure for social values - this title opens the door for more balanced policy decisions.

Offers practical ideas for implementing content-based instruction - using subject matter rather than grammar - through eleven case studies of models in various languages, academic settings, and levels of proficiency.

Environmental groups for the first time formalized their role in shaping US and international trade policy during their involvement in NAFTA negotiations. Examining the role that environmental politics play in trade policy, this volume offers fresh insights into the political effectiveness of environmental organizations.

Prayer in public schools, abortion, gay and lesbian rights - these divisive issues dominate American politics, revealing deep disagreements over basic moral values. This title explores the proper role of religious convictions in American public life. It proposes that religion can and should play an active, positive part in our society.

By combining stories of care, the reflections of caregiving practitioners, and interpretations of caregiving within a larger social and theoretical framework, this title identifies the values and skills involved in quality caregiving at the individual level and affirms their importance for reshaping our public caregiving institutions.

Provides an account of ethical realism that combines both abstract meta-ethical issues defining the debate on realism and concrete topics in moral psychology. This title argues that practical reasoners can both understand the ethical significance of facts and be motivated to act by that understanding.

Drawing on political and social philosophy, this title argues that there is a fundamental philosophical conflict over the role of reason in society between writers in public administration and the designers of the American Constitution. It provides fresh insights for those who are interested in the role of public administration in the US.

A provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.

Arguing that health care should be a human right rather than a commodity, this title calls for a social covenant establishing a right to a standard of health care consistent with society's level of resources. By linking rights with limits, it offers a framework for seeking national consensus on a cost-conscious standard of universal medical care.

The Roman Catholic Church's first significant legislative enactment on the nature and role of the Catholic university, the apostolic constitution "Ex corde Ecclesiae" (1990) grew out of thirty years of dialogue between ecclesiastical authorities and academic representatives. This title includes the complete text in English of "Ex corde Ecclesiae".

By analyzing the amalgam of Greek philosophy, Jewish and Christian teachings, and secular humanism that composes our dominant ethical system, this title explores the question of whether or not Western and non-Western moral values can be commingled without bilateral loss of cultural integrity.

An appraisal of two of the most fundamental terms in the moral language of Thomas Aquinas that draws on the contemporary moral distinction between the goodness of a person and the rightness of a person's living.

Includes essays that probe the nature of the fiduciary relationship that binds client to lawyer, believer to minister, and patient to doctor.

Explores the social changes that have affected higher education and American Catholicism. This title explains why the significant growth of Catholic colleges and universities was not always matched by concomitant academic esteem in the larger world of American higher education.

Illuminates the various ways in which the American Revolution and its aftermath directly and indirectly influenced France before and after the French Revolution. This title includes essays that cluster several basic themes such as: the condition of Native Americans and African-Americans, and more.

A study of the problem of a universal definition of human rights. It argues that contemporary theological discourse contains an affirmation of faith that unites members of world religious traditions with secular humanists in a common struggle to establish human rights as the basis for human dignity.

Focusing on the creation and development of liberating theological methods and sources and the revitalization and renewal of structures that contributes to the development of a liberated and liberating church, this title includes an analysis of the vatican document on liberation theology.

Focuses on the experience of crisis as the undermining attempts to keep control of our lives. This title discusses topics such as the nature of vulnerability, the difference between ordinary fear and metaphysical dread, and the ordinary avoidance of suffering.

Showing the writings of European moral theologians and the writings of their American colleagues, this title uncovers various confusions that have bedeviled the argument while revealing how important the issues are for establishing in coherent Christian ethics in the twentieth century.

Bringing Orthodox Christianity into the dialog on virtue ethics, this book investigates the correspondences between the Eastern Orthodox tradition and contemporary virtue ethics, and develops a distinctly Orthodox vision of theological ethics.

Explores the failures of mainstream economics and proposes an alternative grounded in natural law. This book demonstrates both the reasonableness of a distinguished ethical tradition and its capacity to address a range of ethical issues, economic as well as personal and social.

Long-acting and reversible contraceptives, such as Norplant and Depo-Provera, have been praised as highly effective, moderately priced, and generally safe. This book argues that the very qualities that make these contraceptives an important alternative for individual choice in family planning make them a potential tool of coercive social policy.