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• Title:Last rights : a Catholic perspective on end-of-life decisions / Dolores L. Christie.
  
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• Author/Creator:Christie, Dolores L.
  
• Published/Created:Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2003.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB310 .C474 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Terminal care--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
  Palliative treatment--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
  Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
  Christian ethics.
  
• Medical Subjects: Terminal Care--ethics.
  Catholicism.
  Palliative Care--ethics.
  
• Description:xii, 205 p. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:"Bibliography": pages 187-196.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:074253152X (alk. paper)
  0742531538 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:A Catholic view of the human person
  The Catholic moral tradition : objective elements
  The decision maker and the tradition
  Making plans before dying
  When they say treatment is futile
  When the patient cannot respond : coma or persistent vegetative state
  When the patient cannot eat
  When the patient is ready to die : suicide and its companions
  Final gifts : interpersonal dimensions of dying
  The final blessing : religious and pastoral dimensions of dying.