Medical Care at the End of Life
A Catholic Perspective
1 edition
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Word Count
45,000 words, Guess
Page Count
180 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8831172M
- ISBN-139781589011120
- ISBN-101589011120
- OCLC Control Number63277796
- OCLC Control Numbermedicalcareatend00kell
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006003017
- Goodreads867619
- LibraryThing1699794
Classifications
- LCCR725.56 .K46 2006
Description
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 book explains 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, and medical futility.
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