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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part31.utf8:143005345:1911
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01911cam a22002534a 4500
001 2004005618
003 DLC
005 20140617080622.0
008 040309s2004 dcu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2004005618
020 $a1589010302 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aR725.56$b.K438 2004
082 00 $a241/.642$222
100 1 $aKelly, David F.
245 10 $aContemporary Catholic health care ethics /$cDavid F. Kelly.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bGeorgetown University Press,$c2004.
300 $axiii, 356 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-323) and index.
505 0 $aTheological 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.
650 0 $aMedical ethics$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church.
650 0 $aMedical care$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church.
650 0 $aMedicine$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church.