Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics
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Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics
Second Edition
David F. Kelly, Gerard Magill, and Henk ten Have
Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics, Second Edition, integrates theology, methodology, and practical application into a detailed and practical examination of the bioethical issues that confront students, scholars, and practitioners. Noted bioethicists Gerard Magill, Henk ten Have, and David F. Kelly contribute diverse backgrounds and experience that inform the richness of new material covered in this second edition. David F. Kelly is professor emeritus, Duquesne University.
Reviews
"Far outpaces other texts of its kind in its excellent presentation of the legal and scientific aspects related to medical ethics."—Health Progress "Provides a mixture of medical and religious wisdom that helps explain how and why the Catholic healthcare establishment arrives at its conclusions."—Conscience "The second edition of Contemporary Health Care Ethics is a welcome addition to the religious bioethics literature. It supplements the original edition with excellent discussions of the standard issues in bioethics from the perspectives of both recent scholarship and theological analysis. The second edition is a most helpful guide through the ever increasing complexities of contemporary bioethics."—Thomas A. Shannon, professor emeritus, religion and social ethics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute "The second edition has been made even better. . . . New chapters on research ethics, organizational ethics, issues in genetics, and global bioethics have been added to make this a more complete text for anyone interested in a Catholic reflection on health care ethics."—James J. Walter, Austin & Ann O'Malley Chair in Bioethics, The Bioethics Institute, Loyola Marymount University Table of Contents Introduction Part I: Theological Basis 1. Religion and Health Care 2. The Dignity of Human Life 3. The Integrity of the Human Person 4. The Implications for Health Care 5. Theological Principles in Health Care Ethics Part II: Method 6. The 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. The Principle of Double Effect PART III. Application 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. Research Ethics 24. Organizational Ethics 25. Embryonic Stem Cells and the Beginning of Personhood 26. Genetic Engineering: Ethics and Anthropology 27. Specific Issues in Genetics 28. Allocating Health Care Resources 29. The Use and Misuse of the Allocation Argument 30. Global Bioethics Glossary Cases Cited References Index |