TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kelly,David F.
TI  - Medical care at the end of life: a Catholic perspective 
SN  - 9781435631960
AV  - R725.56 .K46 2006eb
U1  - 174.2 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Terminal Care
KW  - ethics
KW  - Catholicism
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-172) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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