| Description |
xiv, 163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / William R. DeLong -- Introduction / William R. DeLong -- The chaplain's role : a cardiac surgeon's view / Jack G. Copeland -- Identity, role, and task : a core perspective on pastoral care with cardiothoracic transplantations / Tim Thorstenson -- The heart transplant recipient-coordinator relationship : reactions to the transplant process / Anne Nicholson Macdonald -- The influence of psychosocial factors in the heart transplantation decision process / Stacie E. Geller and Terry Connolly -- The ventricular assist device patient / Marilyn R. Cleavinger and Richard G. Smith -- Waiting : pastoral care to the cardiac bridge to transplant patient / William R. DeLong -- Contesting the boundary between life and death : organ transplantation and the identity of the Christian community / M. Therese Lysaught -- Are there any limits to scarcity? / Arthur L. Caplan -- Hard at death's door / Deborah Mathieu -- Organ donation : a Catholic and interfaith perspective on its ethical warrants and contemporary public policy concerns / Jeremiah McCarthy -- The discerning heart : the Psalms as pastoral resource in ministry to potential organ recipients and their families / Donald Capps -- Theological reflections on organ donation and transplantation / M. Susan Nance and William H. Davis, Jr. -- Organ transplantation and tissue donation : a theological look / O. Ray Fitzgerald. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Patients -- Pastoral counseling of.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Religious aspects.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Organ Transplantation.
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Pastoral Care.
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Religion and Medicine.
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Ethics, Medical.
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| Added Author |
DeLong, William R.
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| ISBN |
1560244704 (acid-free paper) |
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