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

By:

Kelly, David F

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781435631960
143563196X
9781589013674
1589013670

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medical care at the end of life.DDC classification:

174.2 22

LOC classification:

R725.56 .K46 2006eb

NLM classification:

2006 M-939
WB 310

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-172) and index.

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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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