Kelly, David F. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-406) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781589019607 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012023873 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.<br/>Medicine.--Religious aspects--Catholic church.<br/>Medical care--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>R725.56  / .K438 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>174.2  / K2957c2