Contemporary Catholic health care ethics /
Kelly, David F.
Contemporary Catholic health care ethics / David F. Kelly. - Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2004. - xiii, 356 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-323) and index.
Theological basis -- Religion and health care -- The dignity of human life -- The integrity of the human person -- Implications for health care -- Theological principles in health care ethics -- Method -- The levels and questions of ethics -- Freedom and the moral agent -- Right and wrong -- Metaethics -- Method in Catholic bioethics -- Catholic method and birth control -- The principle of double effect -- Application -- Forgoing treatment, pillar one: ordinary and extraordinary means -- Forgoing treatment, pillar two: killing and allowing to die -- Forgoing treatment, pillar three: decisions by competent patients -- Forgoing treatment, pillar three: decisions for incompetent patients -- Forgoing treatment, pillar three: advance directives -- Hydration and nutrition -- Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia -- Medical futility -- Pain and pain management -- Ethics committees -- Embryonic stem cells and the beginning of human personhood -- Genetic engineering -- Allocating health care resources -- The use and misuse of the allocation argument.
1589010302 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004005618
Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Medical care--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Medicine--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
R725.56 / .K438 2004
241/.642
Contemporary Catholic health care ethics / David F. Kelly. - Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2004. - xiii, 356 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-323) and index.
Theological basis -- Religion and health care -- The dignity of human life -- The integrity of the human person -- Implications for health care -- Theological principles in health care ethics -- Method -- The levels and questions of ethics -- Freedom and the moral agent -- Right and wrong -- Metaethics -- Method in Catholic bioethics -- Catholic method and birth control -- The principle of double effect -- Application -- Forgoing treatment, pillar one: ordinary and extraordinary means -- Forgoing treatment, pillar two: killing and allowing to die -- Forgoing treatment, pillar three: decisions by competent patients -- Forgoing treatment, pillar three: decisions for incompetent patients -- Forgoing treatment, pillar three: advance directives -- Hydration and nutrition -- Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia -- Medical futility -- Pain and pain management -- Ethics committees -- Embryonic stem cells and the beginning of human personhood -- Genetic engineering -- Allocating health care resources -- The use and misuse of the allocation argument.
1589010302 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004005618
Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Medical care--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Medicine--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
R725.56 / .K438 2004
241/.642