TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kelly,David F.
AU  - Magill,Gerard
AU  - Have,H.ten
TI  - Contemporary Catholic health care ethics
SN  - 9781589019607 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
AV  - R725.56 .K438 2013
U1  - 174.2 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Local
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Catholic church
KW  - Medical care
N1  - 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
ER  -