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• Title:Contemporary Catholic health care ethics / David F. Kelly.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kelly, David F.
  
• Published/Created:Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2004.
  

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  • Call Number: WB60 .K293 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: WB60 .K293 2004
    
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  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
  Medical care--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
  Medicine--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
  
• Medical Subjects: Catholicism.
  Ethics, Clinical.
  Delivery of Health Care--ethics.
  Religion and Medicine.
  
• Description:xiii, 336 p. ; 26 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1589010302 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. Religion and health care
  2. dignity of human life
  3. integrity of the human person
  4. implications for health care
  5. Theological principles in health care ethics
  6. levels and questions of ethics
  7. Freedom and the moral agent
  8. Right and wrong
  9. Metaethics
  10. Method in Catholic medical ethics
  11. Catholic method and birth control
  12. principle of double effect
  13. Forgoing treatment, pillar one : ordinary and extraordinary means
  14. Forgoing treatment, pillar two : killing and allowing to die
  15. Forgoing treatment, pillar three : decisions by competent patients
  16. Forgoing treatment, pillar three : decisions for incompetent patients
  17. Forgoing treatment, pillar three : advance directives
  18. Hydration and nutrition
  19. Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia
  20. Medical futility
  21. Pain and pain management
  22. Ethics committees
  23. Embryonic stem cells and the beginning of personhood
  24. Genetic engineering
  25. Allocating health care resources
  26. use and misuse of the allocation argument.