Acute cases in moral medicine
By: by the Reverend Edward F.  Burke.
Publisher: The Macmillan company
Published: 1922
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Casuistry; Pastoral medicine -- Catholic Church
Notes: Bibliography: p. 123-124.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: I. Temporal Rights — Life 1; title: 1. Principles 3; title: 2. Application 20; title: I. Embryotomy 20; title: II. Abortion 21; title: A. direct 25; title: B. indirect 28; title: (1) medical treatment 33; title: (2) operative treatment 34; title: (A) not involving uterine contents 35; title: (B) involving uterine contents 36; title: (C) tumors of the womb 42; title: III. Ectopic Gestation 48; title: IV. Special Cases 54; title: 1. Euthanasia 54; title: 2. Twilight Sleep 55; title: 3. Illicit Operations 57; title: 4. Co-operation 60; title: 5. Race Suicide 62; title: 6. Professional Consultation 63; title: II. Spiritual Rights — Religion 65; title: A. Baptism of Necessity 67; title: I. Principles 67; title: II. Application 75; title: A. Adults 75; title: 1. conscious 75; title: 2. unconscious 78; title: 3. demented 79; title: 4. comatose 80; title: B. Infants 81; title: 1. no sign of life 81; title: 2. premature birth 82; title: 3. difficult parturition 85; title: 4. children of non-Catholics 88; title: 5. foundlings 88; title: 6. abnormalities 89; title: 7. unborn, and mothers dead, dying, and sick 97; title: B. Last Sacraments 101; title: C. Christian Burial 107; title: General Conclusion 109; title: Appendix I. — Decrees or the Holy Office 111; title: Appendix II. — Suggestions 113; title: Glossary 117; title: Bibliography 123; title: Index 125