Artificial Nutrition and Hydration The New Catholic Debate /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Tollefsen, Christopher (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Σειρά: Philosophy and Medicine ; 93
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Religion.; Ethics.; Religion > Philosophy.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Religious Studies, general.; Philosophy of Religion.; Philosophy of Medicine.

Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration. While many Catholic bioethicists defended the Pope’s claim that the life of all human beings, eve...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The Issue
• Why do Unresponsive Patients Still Matter?
• Are We Morally Obliged to Feed PVS Patients Till Natural Death?
• Caring for Persons in the “Persistent Vegetative State” and Pope John Paul II’s March 20 2004 Address “On Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State”
• Food and Fluids: Human Law, Human Rights and Human Interests
• Philosophers Address the Issue
• Quality of Life and Assisted Nutrition
• Towards Ethical Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
• Understanding the Ethics of Artificially Providing Food and Water
• The Ethics of Pope John Paul’s Allocution on Care of the PVS Patient: A Response to J.L.A. Garcia
• Symposium on the Views of Fr. Kevin O’Rourke, O.P.
• Reflections on the Papal Allocution Concerning Care For PVS Patients
• The Papal Allocution Concerning Care for PVS Patients: A Reply to Fr. O’Rourke
• Response to Patrick Lee
• The Morality of Tube Feeding PVS Patients: A Critique of the View of Kevin O’Rourke, O.P.
• Concluding Reflections
• Ten Errors Regarding End of Life Issues, and Especially Artificial Nutrition and Hydration.