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• Title:Artificial nutrition and hydration and the permanently unconscious patient : the Catholic debate / Ronald P. Hamel, James J. Walter, editors.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Hamel, Ronald P., 1946-
  Walter, James J.
  
• Published/Created:Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB60 .A78 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
  Coma--Patients--Religious aspects--Catholicism.
  Loss of consciousness.
  Fluid therapy--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Medicine--Religious aspects.
  Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Euthanasia, Passive--ethics.
  Catholicism.
  Enteral Nutrition--ethics.
  Fluid Therapy--ethics.
  Persistent Vegetative State--therapy.
  Religion and Medicine.
  
• Description:ix, 294 p. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781589011786 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1589011783 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Position of the American Academy of Neurology on certain aspects of the care and management of the persistent vegetative state patient / American Academy of Neurology
  Feeding tubes : sorting out the issues / Myles N. Sheehan
  Catholic teaching on prolonging life : setting the record straight / Michael R. Panicola
  A history of ordinary and extraordinary means / Donald E. Henke
  Must we preserve life? / Ronald Hamel and Michael Panicola
  The prolongation of life / Pope Pius XII
  Declaration on euthanasia / Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
  The artificial prolongation of life / Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  On withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration / Texas bishops and the Texas Conference of Catholic Health Facilities
  Nutrition and hydration : moral and pastoral reflections / National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities
  Ethical and religious directives : introduction to Part V and Directives 57-58 / United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
  The PVS patient and the forgoing/withdrawing of medical nutrition and hydration / Thomas A. Shannon and James J. Walter
  Should nutrition and hydration be provided to permanently unconscious and other mentally disabled persons? / Germain Grisez
  End-of-life care revisited / Daniel P. Sulmasy
  Care for patients in a "permanent" vegetative state / Pope John Paul II
  John Paul II on the "vegetative state" / Richard M. Doerflinger
  Medically assisted nutrition and hydration : a contribution to the dialogue / Mark Repenshek and John Paul Slosar
  Assisted nutrition and hydration and the Catholic tradition / Thomas A. Shannon and James J. Walter
  Reflections on the papal allocution concerning care for persistent vegetative state patients / Kevin O'Rourke
  The Clarence Herbert case : was withdrawal of treatment justified? / John R. Connery
  Caring or starving? : the case of Claire Conroy / Richard A. McCormick.