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020 _a9781589019607 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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050 0 0 _aR725.56
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100 1 _aKelly, David F.
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245 1 0 _aContemporary Catholic health care ethics
_cDavid F. Kelly, Gerard Magill, Henk ten Have.
250 _aSecond Edition
260 _aWashington, DC
_bGeorgetown University Press
_cc2013.
300 _axvi, 432 pages
_c26 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 379-406) and index.
505 0 _aReligion 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.
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_aMedical ethics
_xReligious aspects
_xCatholic Church.
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650 0 _aMedicine.
_xReligious aspects
_xCatholic church.
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650 0 _9134381
_aMedical care
_xReligious aspects
_xCatholic Church.
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700 1 _aMagill, Gerard
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700 1 _aHave, H. ten.
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