Contemporary Catholic health care ethics
Kelly, David F.
Contemporary Catholic health care ethics David F. Kelly, Gerard Magill, Henk ten Have. - Second Edition - Washington, DC Georgetown University Press c2013. - xvi, 432 pages 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-406) and index.
Religion and health care -- The dignity of human life -- The integrity of the human person -- The implications for health care -- Theological principles in health care ethics -- The levels and questions of ethics -- Freedom and the moral agent -- Right and wrong -- Metaethics -- Method in Catholic medical ethics -- Catholic method and birth control -- The principle of double effect -- 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 -- Research ethics -- Organizational ethics -- Embryonic stem cells and the beginning of personhood -- Genetic engineering: ethics and anthropology -- Specific issues in genetics -- Allocating health care resources -- The use and misuse of the allocation argument -- Global bioethics.
9781589019607 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
2012023873
Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Medicine.--Religious aspects--Catholic church.
Medical care--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
R725.56 / .K438 2013
174.2 / K2957c2
Contemporary Catholic health care ethics David F. Kelly, Gerard Magill, Henk ten Have. - Second Edition - Washington, DC Georgetown University Press c2013. - xvi, 432 pages 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-406) and index.
Religion and health care -- The dignity of human life -- The integrity of the human person -- The implications for health care -- Theological principles in health care ethics -- The levels and questions of ethics -- Freedom and the moral agent -- Right and wrong -- Metaethics -- Method in Catholic medical ethics -- Catholic method and birth control -- The principle of double effect -- 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 -- Research ethics -- Organizational ethics -- Embryonic stem cells and the beginning of personhood -- Genetic engineering: ethics and anthropology -- Specific issues in genetics -- Allocating health care resources -- The use and misuse of the allocation argument -- Global bioethics.
9781589019607 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
2012023873
Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Medicine.--Religious aspects--Catholic church.
Medical care--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
R725.56 / .K438 2013
174.2 / K2957c2