The ethics of medical homicide and mutilation
Publisher: The Devin-Adair Company
Published: 1919
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: CHAPTER I; title: GENERAL PRINCIPLES CONCERNING SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE; title: There is a Supreme Being who alone is master of life. The Natural Law. The nature and determinants of morality. Probabilism. Permissive suicide. Suicide is illicit. Conscience. Homicide, direct and indirect. Self-defence. Formal and material aggressors. Legalized homicide. Bibliography 1-22; title: CHAPTER II; title: GENERAL PRINCIPLES CONCERNING MUTILATION; title: Mutilation. Canonical irregularity. Self-mutilation. The double effect in morality. Direct and indirect mutilation. The State and mutilation. The dominion of the State 23-32; title: CHAPTER III; title: WHEN DOES HUMAN LIFE BEGIN?; title: Ancient and modem opinions. The fetus is animated at the moment of conception. The single cell as the primal life-organ. Cell growth and division. Germ cells. The development of the embryo. Fetal viability. Theories of development. The Aristotelian and Thomistic opinions. The formal principle. A soul exists. The primordial cell is a sufficient organ for the soul. Metabolism in the cell. Cell motion. Animal heat and energy. Life in separated tissues. The soul in monsters 33-82; title: CHAPTER IV; title: WHEN DOES HUMAN LIFE END?; title: The heart and life. Resuscitation after apparent death. The last sacraments in apparent death. Suspended animation. The living fetus in the womb of a dying or dead mother. Methods of resuscitation. Signs of death 83-91; title: CHAPTER V; title: ABORTION; title: Abortion and miscarriage. Causes of abortion, fetal, maternal and paternal. Surgical operations and abortion. The debitum in pregnancy. Premature labor. Threatened, inevitable, and incomplete abortions. Treatment. The use of the tampon. Precautions against abortion. Therapeutic abortion. Methods of inducing abortion. Artificial abortion of an inviable fetus is never licit. Decrees of the church concerning abortion. The civil law on abortion 92-123; title: CHAPTER VI; title: ECTOPIC GESTATION; title: Ectopic gestation or extrauterine pregnancy. Anatomy of the uterus and its adnexa. Place of fecundation. The abnormal uterus. Tubal rupture and tubal abortion. Diagnosis. Decrees of the church on ectopic gestation. Removal of an inviable ectopic fetus except in present peril of life is illicit 124-132; title: CHAPTER VII; title: CESAREAN DELIVERY; title: Indications for cesarean delivery. Abnormal pelves. Symphyseotomy. Varieties of cesarean delivery. Morality. Amputation of the uterus after cesarean delivery. Precautionary sterilization of a cesarean case is illicit 133-142; title: CHAPTER VIII; title: PLACENTA PRAEVTA AND ABBUPTIO PLACENTAS; title: Nature end effects of placenta praevia. Treatment Morality and methods of treatment Abruptio placentae. Morality of fetal removal 143-140; title: CHAPTER IX; title: ABDOMINAL TUMORS IN PREGNANCY; title: Tumors blocking parturition. Fibroids or myomata. Ovarian tumors. Cancer. Effects and morality of operation 147-152; title: CHAPTER X; title: APPENDICITIS IN PREGNANCY; title: Occurrence. Time of operation. Diagnosis 153-154; title: CHAPTER XI; title: PUERPERAL INSANITY AND STERILIZATION; title: Causes. Varieties. Prognosis. Precautionary sterilization of puerperal psychopaths is illicit 155-157; title: CHAPTER XII; title: NEPHRITIS IN PREGNANCY; title: Frequency. Effects. Abortion as a treatment. Varieties of nephritis. Pyelitis. Catalepsy 158-161; title: CHAPTER XIII; title: ECLAMPSIA PARTURIENTIUM; title: Definition. Symptoms. Prognosis. Causes. Precautions against eclampsia. Forced delivery. The expectant treatment. Relative mortality and morality of the methods. Cesarean delivery as a treatment. The expectant treatment is apparently the best 162-169; title: CHAPTER XIV; title: HEART DISEASES IN PREGNANCY; title: Factors in abnormal gestation. The use of pituitrin. Weak pains and the diseased heart. The diseased heart in actual parturition. Operative risk in cardiopaths. Heart block and mitral regurgitation in labor. Prognosis 170-176; title: CHAPTER XV; title: HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; title: Pernicious vomiting. Occurrence. Symptoms. Stages. Effects.; title: Causes. Therapeutic abortion in pernicious vomiting. Treatment 177-181; title: CHAPTER XVI; title: CHOREA GRAVIDARUM AND HYSTERIA; title: Varieties of chorea. Differentiation. Prognosis. Hysteria.; title: Causes. Epidemics of hysteria. Symptoms. Prognosis 182—186; title: CHAPTER XVII; title: ACUTE YELLOW ATROPHY OF THE LIVER IN PREGNANCY; title: Icterus gravis. Causes. Symptoms. Prognosis 187-188; title: CHAPTER XVIII; title: INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN PREGNANCY; title: Effects on mother and fetus. Abortions in infectious diseases. Placental permeability. Typhoid. Smallpox. Pneumonia. Influenza. Scarlatina. Measles. Cholera. Tuberculosis. Artificial abortion in tuberculosis 189-200; title: CHAPTER XIX; title: SYPHILIS IN PREGNANCY AND MARRIAGE; title: Prognosis. Abortion. Infection of mother and fetus. Colles' Law. Erroneous notions on the curability of syphilis.; title: Once a syphilitic probably always a syphilitic. The proessional secret in syphilis. Nature of secrets. The physician may warn an innocent person 201-211; title: CHAPTER XX; title: GONORRHOEA IN MARRIAGE; title: The cause of gonorrhoea. Tests of cure. Effects on a woman. Chronicity. Prevalence. Surgical treatment in women. Morality of the surgical treatment. Conservative surgery. Salpingotomy. Ovariotomy. Evil effects of ovariotomy. Internal secretion of the ovary. Results of various operations. Pregnancy after operation. Morality of infection. General effects of gonorrhoea. Ophthalmia neonatorum and gonorrhoea 212-229; title: CHAPTER XXI; title: DIABETES IN PREGNANCY; title: Fatality of diabetes in pregnancy. Diagnosis. Sterility of diabetics. Prognosis. Heredity in diabetes. Therapeutic abortion in diabetes 230-231; title: CHAPTER XXII; title: CHILDBIRTH IN TWILIGHT SLEEP; title: Twilight sleep to avert pain in parturition. Stages of labor.; title: Drugs used. Scopolamine and morphine. Danger in the use of these drugs in labor. Contradictory report of physicians on twilight sleep. Eminent authorities opposed to the methods. Baer's report on the evil effects. The methods are morally illicit and useless 232-244; title: CHAPTER XXIII; title: VASECTOMY, OR STERLIZATION, BY STATE LAW; title: The States that have this law. Reasons for the law. Hereditary transmission of certain diseases. The operation.; title: Its effects. Restoration of the function of the interrupted vas deferens. Vasectomy and impotence. Onanism. Vasectomy effects impotence from the moral point of view. Other conditions in the male that effect moral impotence. Immorality of artificial impregnation. Vasectomy a grave mutilation. Vasectomy as ordinarily practised is illicit The State and vasectomy.; title: The limitations of the State's dominion. The State surgeon and vasectomy. Bibliography 245-268; title: Index 269