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Health Care Ethics is a comprehensive study of significant issues affecting health care and the ethics of health care from the perspective of Catholic theology. It aims to help Christian, and especially Catholic, health care professionals solve concrete problems in terms of principles rooted in scripture and tested by individual experience; however, its basis in real medical experience makes this book a valuable resource for anyone with a general interest in health care ethics.

This fifth edition, which includes important contributions by Jean deBlois, C.S.J., considers everyday ethical questions and dilemmas in clinical care and deals more deeply with issues of women's health, mental health, sexual orientation, artificial reproduction, and the new social issues in health care. The authors devote special attention to the various ethical theories currently in use in the United States while clearly presenting a method of ethical decision making based in the Catholic tradition. They discuss the needs of the human person, outlining what it means to be human, both as an individual and as part of a community.

This volume has been significantly updated to include new discussions of recent clinical innovations and theoretical issues that have arisen in the field:

* the Human Genome Project

* efforts to control sexual selection of infants

* efforts to genetically modify the human genotype and phenotype

* the development of palliative care as a medical specialty

* the acceptance of non-heart beating persons as organ donors

* embryo development and stem cell research

* reconstructive and cosmetic surgery

* nutrition and obesity

* medical mistakes

* the negative effects of managed care on the patient-physician relationship

* recent papal allocution regarding care of patients in a persistent vegetative state and palliative care for dying patients

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Introduction
• List of Abbreviations Used in the Text and in Citations
• Part I Health Care Ethics and Human Needs
• 1 Bioethics in a Multicultural Age
• Overview
• The Emergence of Secular Bioethics
• The Foundations of the Ethics of Health Care
• Current Methodologies in Bioethics
• Faith and Reason in Health Care Ethics
• Conclusion
• 2 Ethics and Needs of the Common Person
• Overview
• An Ethics Based on Innate Human Needs
• Jesus Christ, Healer, as Ethical Model
• Character and the Major Moral Virtues
• Prudent Decision Making
• Moral Norms Especially Relevant to Health Care
• Conclusion
• Part II Clinical Issues
• 3 Sexuality and Reproduction
• Overview
• The Meaning of Human Sexuality
• When Does Human Life Begin?
• Ethical Issues in Reproduction
• Pastoral Approach to Ethical Problems Arising from Sexuality
• Conclusion
• 4 Reconstructing and Modifying the Human Body: Ethical Perspectives
• Overview
• Modifying the Human Body
• Genetic Intervention
• Genetic Screening and Counseling
• Organ Transplantation
• Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgery
• Experimentation and Research on Human Subjects
• Conclusion
• 5 Mental Health: Ethical Perspective
• Overview
• What is Mental Health?
• Medical/Surgical Therapies
• Psychotherapies
• The Christian Model of Mental Health
• Ethical Problems in Mental Therapy
• Addiction
• Conclusion
• 6 Suffering and Death: A Theological Perspective
• Overview
• Mystery of Death
• Fear of Death
• Defining Death
• Truth Telling to the Dying
• Care for the Corpse or Cadaver
• Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia
• Allowing to Die: Withholding or Withdrawing Life Support
• Care of Permanently Unconscious Patients
• Treatment of Pain
• Conclusion
• Part III Social and Pastoral Responsibilities
• 7 Social Responsibility
• Overview
• Professions: Depersonalizing Trends
• Characteristics of Medicine as a Profession
• Health Care Counseling
• Professional Communication and Confidentiality
• The Political Situation of Health Care Today
• Principles of Health Care Policy
• Health Care Ethics and Public Policy
• Responsibilities of Catholic Health Care Facilities
• Conclusion
• 8 Pastoral Care
• Overview
• The Goals of Pastoral Ministry
• Pastoral Care of the Health Care Staff
• Pastoral Care and Ethical Counseling
• Spiritual Counseling in Health Care
• Celebrating the Healing Process
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• References
• Index

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Benedict M. Ashley, OP , a priest of the Dominican Order, Chicago Province, is Emeritus Professor of Moral Theology at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis. He is a senior fellow of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. He has been honored with the medal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice conferred by John Paul II and the Thomas Linacre Award from the National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds. He is coautor of Ethics of Health Care: An Introductory Textbook, Third Edition (with Kevin O'Rourke, OP).

Jean deBlois, CSJ , is director of the Master of Arts in Health Care Mission program at Aquinas Institute of Theology. She also acts as sponsor liaison to Ascension Health for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and serves on the Ascension Health Board of Directors. She is a former Vice President for Mission and Sponsorship at the Catholic Health Association.

Kevin O'Rourke, OP , is professor emeritus and founder of the Center for Health Care Ethics at the Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center. He is a professor of bioethics at the Neiswanger Institute of Bioethics and Public Policy, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago. He is author of Medical Ethics: Sources of Catholic Teachings, Third Edition and coauthor of A Primer for Health Care Ethics: Essays for a Pluralistic Society, Second Edition .