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Contemporary Catholic health care ethics / David F. Kelly
Livre
Edited by Georgetown University Press - 2004
pt. I. Theological basis. 1. Religion and health care. 2. The dignity of human life. 3. The integrity of the human person. 4. The implications for health care. 5. Theological principles in health care ethics. pt. II. Method. 6. The levels and questions of ethics. 7. Freedom and the moral agent. 8. Right and wrong. 9. Metaethics. 10. Method in Catholic medical ethics. 11. Catholic method and birth control. 12. The principle of double effect. pt. III. Application. 13. Forgoing treatment, pillar one : ordinary and extraordinary means. 14. Forgoing treatment, pillar two : killing and allowing to die. 15. Forgoing treatment, pillar three : decisions by competent patients. 16. Forgoing treatment, pillar three : decisions for incompetent patients. 17. Forgoing treatment, pillar three : advance directives. 18. Hydration and nutrition. 19. Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. 20. Medical futility. 21. Pain and pain management. 22. Ethics committees. 23. Embryonic stem cells and the beginning of human personhood. 24. Genetic engineering. 25. Allocating health care resources. 26. The use and misuse of the allocation argument. Glossary. Cases cited.