Artificial Nutrition and Hydration The New Catholic Debate
Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration. While many Catholic bioethicists defended the Pope’s claim that the life of all human beings, eve...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2008, 2008
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2008 |
| Series: | Catholic Studies in Bioethics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Issue
- Why do Unresponsive Patients Still Matter?
- Are We Morally Obliged to Feed PVS Patients Till Natural Death?
- Caring for Persons in the “Persistent Vegetative State” and Pope John Paul II’s March 20 2004 Address “On Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State”
- Food and Fluids: Human Law, Human Rights and Human Interests
- Philosophers Address the Issue
- Quality of Life and Assisted Nutrition
- Towards Ethical Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
- Understanding the Ethics of Artificially Providing Food and Water
- The Ethics of Pope John Paul’s Allocution on Care of the PVS Patient: A Response to J.L.A. Garcia
- Symposium on the Views of Fr. Kevin O’Rourke, O.P.
- Reflections on the Papal Allocution Concerning Care For PVS Patients
- The Papal Allocution Concerning Care for PVS Patients: A Reply to Fr. O’Rourke
- Response to Patrick Lee
- The Morality of Tube Feeding PVS Patients: A Critique of the View of Kevin O’Rourke, O.P.
- Concluding Reflections
- Ten Errors Regarding End of Life Issues, and Especially Artificial Nutrition and Hydration