| Description |
xiii, 356 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-323) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Medical ethics -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Medical care -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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| ISBN |
1589010302 paperback alkaline paper |
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