Contemporary Catholic health care ethics /

Contemporary Catholic health care ethics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kelly, David F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. ; [Great Britain] : Georgetown University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Medical ethics > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Medical care > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Medicine > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Table of Contents:
  • Theological basis
  • Religion and health care
  • The dignity of human life
  • The integrity of the human person
  • Implications for health care
  • Theological principles in health care ethics
  • Method
  • The levels and questions of ethics
  • Freedom and the moral agent
  • Right and wrong
  • Metaethics
  • Method in Catholic bioethics
  • Catholic method and birth control
  • The principle of double effect
  • Application
  • Forgoing treatment, pillar one: ordinary and extraordinary means
  • Forgoing treatment, pillar two: killing and allowing to die
  • Forgoing treatment, pillar three: decisions by competent patients
  • Forgoing treatment, pillar three: decisions for incompetent patients
  • Forgoing treatment, pillar three: advance directives
  • Hydration and nutrition
  • Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia
  • Medical futility
  • Pain and pain management
  • Ethics committees
  • Embryonic stem cells and the beginning of human personhood
  • Genetic engineering
  • Allocating health care resources
  • The use and misuse of the allocation argument.

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