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

• Autore: Kelly David F
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.2
• Soggetto topico: Medical ethics - Religious aspects - Catholic Church; Medical care - Religious aspects - Catholic Church; Medicine - Religious aspects - Catholic Church
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-172) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: For over thirty years, David F. Kelly has worked with medical practitioners, students, families, and the sick and dying to confront the difficult and often painful issues that concern medical treatment at the end of life. In this short and practical book, Kelly shares his vast experience, providing a rich resource for thinking about life's most painful decisions. Kelly outlines eight major issues regarding end-of-life care as seen through the lens of the Catholic medical ethics tradition. He looks at the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means; the difference between killing and a
• Titolo autorizzato: Medical care at the end of life
• ISBN: 1-58901-367-0; 1-4356-3196-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778239003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II