Medical ethics : sources of Catholic teachings

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Main Author: O'Rourke, Kevin D.
Other Authors: Boyle, Philip
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2011]
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:
Medical ethics > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Medicine > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Christian ethics > Catholic authors.
Pastoral medicine > Catholic Church.
Ethics, Medical.
Catholicism.
Pastoral Care.
Religion and Medicine.
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding church teaching. The view of the person
  • Normative concepts
  • Formation of conscience
  • Specific teachings of the church. Abortion
  • Advance directives
  • Aging
  • AIDS
  • Alternative therapies
  • Anencephaly
  • Artificial insemination and assisted reproductive technologies (ART)
  • Assisted suicide
  • Autonomy
  • Autopsy
  • Brain death
  • Care for the poor, or Option for the poor
  • Catholic health care
  • Catholic identity
  • Cloning
  • Confidentiality
  • Contraception
  • Death, Determination of
  • Dignity of person
  • Do not resuscitate (DNR)
  • Durable power of attorney
  • Ectopic pregnancy
  • Embryo
  • Emergency contraception
  • Ethical and religious directives (ERD)
  • Ethics committees
  • Euthanasia
  • Fertility assistance
  • Fetal remains, Disposal of
  • Futile care
  • Gene therapy
  • Genetic testing and counseling
  • Gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT)
  • Government mandates
  • Handicapped, Access and therapy
  • Health care professionals
  • Health care reform
  • Hospice
  • Hydration and nutrition, Assisted
  • Induction of labor
  • Infertility
  • Informed consent
  • Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
  • In vitro fertilization and embryo transplant (IVF and ET)
  • Joint ventures
  • Labor and management relations
  • Living will
  • Natural family planning
  • Non-heart-beating donors
  • Ordinary and extraordinary measures to preserve life
  • Organ donation and transplantation
  • Pain relief
  • Palliative care
  • Pastoral care
  • Physician-assisted suicide
  • Preimplantation diagnosis
  • Prenatal adoption
  • Proxy consent
  • Psychotherapy
  • Rape, Treatment of victims
  • Research on human subjects
  • Right to health care
  • RU-486
  • Scandal
  • Sexual abuse
  • Stem cells
  • Sterilization
  • Suffering
  • Suicide
  • Surgery
  • Surrogate mothers
  • Terminal sedation
  • Truth telling
  • Uterine isolation
  • Withholding and withdrawing life support.

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