Health Care Ethics: A Catholic Theological Analysis, Fifth EditionHealth Care Ethics is a comprehensive study of significant issues affecting health care and the ethics of health care from the perspective of Catholic theology. It aims to help Christian, and especially Catholic, health care professionals solve concrete problems in terms of principles rooted in scripture and tested by individual experience; however, its basis in real medical experience makes this book a valuable resource for anyone with a general interest in health care ethics. This fifth edition, which includes important contributions by Jean deBlois, C.S.J., considers everyday ethical questions and dilemmas in clinical care and deals more deeply with issues of women's health, mental health, sexual orientation, artificial reproduction, and the new social issues in health care. The authors devote special attention to the various ethical theories currently in use in the United States while clearly presenting a method of ethical decision making based in the Catholic tradition. They discuss the needs of the human person, outlining what it means to be human, both as an individual and as part of a community. This volume has been significantly updated to include new discussions of recent clinical innovations and theoretical issues that have arisen in the field: • the Human Genome Project• efforts to control sexual selection of infants• efforts to genetically modify the human genotype and phenotype• the development of palliative care as a medical specialty• the acceptance of non-heart beating persons as organ donors• embryo development and stem cell research• reconstructive and cosmetic surgery• nutrition and obesity• medical mistakes• the negative effects of managed care on the patient-physician relationship• recent papal allocution regarding care of patients in a persistent vegetative state and palliative care for dying patients |
Contents
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15 CONCLUSION | 30 |
ETHICS AND NEEDS OF THE COMMON PERSON | 31 |
22 JESUS CHRIST HEALER AS ETHICAL MODEL | 40 |
23 CHARACTER AND THE MAJOR MORAL VIRTUES | 42 |
SUFFERING AND DEATH A THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE | 163 |
62 FEAR OF DEATH | 166 |
63 DEFINING DEATH | 169 |
64 TRUTH TELLING TO THE DYING | 173 |
65 CARE FOR THE CORPSE OR CADAVER | 175 |
66 SUICIDE ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA | 178 |
WITHHOLDING OR WITHDRAWING LIFE SUPPORT | 182 |
68 CARE OF PERMANENTLY UNCONSCIOUS PATIENTS | 194 |
24 PRUDENT DECISION MAKING | 50 |
25 MORAL NORMS ESPECIALLY RELEVANT TO HEALTH CARE | 53 |
26 CONCLUSION | 60 |
CLINICAL ISSUES | 61 |
SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION | 63 |
32 WHEN DOES HUMAN LIFE BEGIN? | 69 |
33 ETHICAL ISSUES IN REPRODUCTION | 73 |
34 PASTORAL APPROACH TO ETHICAL PROBLEMS ARISING FROM SEXUALITY | 88 |
35 CONCLUSION | 89 |
RECONSTRUCTING AND MODIFYING THE HUMAN BODY ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES | 91 |
42 GENETIC INTERVENTION | 94 |
43 GENETIC SCREENING AND COUNSELING | 98 |
44 ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION | 103 |
45 RECONSTRUCTIVE AND COSMETIC SURGERY | 108 |
46 EXPERIMENTATION AND RESEARCH ON HUMAN SUBJECTS | 113 |
47 CONCLUSION | 122 |
MENTAL HEALTH ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES | 125 |
51 WHAT IS MENTAL HEALTH? | 126 |
52 MEDICALSURGICAL THERAPIES | 130 |
53 PSYCHOTHERAPIES | 136 |
54 THE CHRISTIAN MODEL OF MENTAL HEALTH | 145 |
55 ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN MENTAL THERAPY | 148 |
56 CONCLUSION | 160 |
69 TREATMENT OF PAIN | 197 |
610 CONCLUSION | 198 |
SOCIAL AND PASTORAL RESPONSIBILITIES | 201 |
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | 203 |
DEPERSONALIZING TRENDS | 204 |
72 CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION | 206 |
73 HEALTH CARE COUNSELING | 210 |
74 PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION AND CONFIDENTIALITY | 212 |
75 THE POLITICAL SITUATION OF HEALTH CARE TODAY | 215 |
76 PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH CARE POLICY | 218 |
77 HEALTH CARE ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY | 225 |
78 RESPONSIBILITIES OF CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE FACILITIES | 227 |
79 CONCLUSION | 233 |
PASTORAL CARE | 235 |
82 PASTORAL CARE OF THE HEALTH CARE STAFF | 239 |
83 PASTORAL CARE AND ETHICAL COUNSELING | 241 |
84 SPIRITUAL COUNSELING IN HEALTH CARE | 244 |
85 CELEBRATING THE HEALING PROCESS | 249 |
86 CONCLUSION | 255 |
GLOSSARY | 257 |
REFERENCES | 265 |
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