Medical care at the end of life : a Catholic perspective / David F. Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, David F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Medical ethics.

Medical care--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Medical care.

Medicine--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Medicine.

Terminal Care--ethics.

Catholicism.

Medical Subjects:

Terminal Care--ethics.

Catholicism.

Physical Description:

xi, 180 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2006]

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 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, medical futility.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-172) and index.

ISBN:

1589011120

OCLC:

63277796

Publisher Number:

9781589011120