Handbook on critical life issues
By: John A. Leies
Contributors: National Catholic Bioethics Center
Edition: Rev. 3rd ed.
Publisher: National Catholic Bioethics Center
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780935372588
Subjects: Bioethical Issues; Law and legislation; Bioethics; Catholicism; Personhood; Religion and Medicine; Beginning of Human Life; Medical care; Medical ethics; Ethics; Right to Die
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: Known by reason and reflection; title: Known in the Bible and by faith; title: Person-centered health care; title: The inviolability of each human life; title: Suffering and stewardship; title: The beginning of life and of a person; title: Abortion in medicine and ethics; title: The law and abortion; title: Technological reproduction of human life; title: Stem cell research; title: Organ transplants; title: Suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia; title: Decisions about prolonging life; title: The law and withdrawing treatment; title: Determining death and other issues.