TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kelly,David F.
TI  - Contemporary Catholic health care ethics
SN  - 1589010302 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - R725.56 .K438 2004
U1  - 241/.642 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Medicine
N1  - 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
ER  -