Contemporary Catholic health care ethics
By: David F. Kelly, Gerard Magill, Henk ten Have
Contributors: Magill, Gerard, 1951-; Have, H. ten
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781589019607
Subjects: Medical care; Medical ethics; Catholic Church; Medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Religion and health care; title: The dignity of human life; title: The integrity of the human person; title: The implications for health care; title: Theological principles in health care ethics; title: The levels and questions of ethics; title: Freedom and the moral agent; title: Right and wrong; title: Metaethics; title: Method in Catholic medical ethics; title: Catholic method and birth control; title: The principle of double effect; title: Forgoing treatment, pillar one: ordinary and extraordinary means; title: Forgoing treatment, pillar two: killing and allowing to die; title: Forgoing treatment, pillar three: decisions by competent patients; title: Forgoing treatment, pillar three: decisions for incompetent patients; title: Forgoing treatment, pillar three: advance directives; title: Hydration and nutrition; title: Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia; title: Medical futility; title: Pain and pain management; title: Ethics committees; title: Research ethics; title: Organizational ethics; title: Embryonic stem cells and the beginning of personhood; title: Genetic engineering: ethics and anthropology; title: Specific issues in genetics; title: Allocating health care resources; title: The use and misuse of the allocation argument; title: Global bioethics.