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• Title:Medical care at the end of life : a Catholic perspective / David F. Kelly.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kelly, David F.
  
• Published/Created:Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, ©2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB310 .K46 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • 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: Terminal Care--ethics.
  Catholicism.
  
• Description:xi, 180 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:Medical Care at the End of Life addresses the major issues that inform this last stage of caregiving as seen through the lens of the Catholic medical ethics tradition. The book explains the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means, the difference between killing and allowing to die, criteria of patient competence, what to do in the case of incompetent patients, the meaning and use of advance directives, the morality of hydration and nutrition, physician assisted suicide and euthanasia, and medical futility.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-172) and index.
  
• ISBN:1589011120 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  9781589011120 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  9781589011120
  
• Contents:Ordinary and extraordinary means
  Killing and allowing to die
  Decisions by competent patients
  Decisions for incompetent patients
  Advance directives
  Hydration and nutrition
  Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia
  Medical futility.