Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics, Second Edition, integrates theology, methodology, and practical application into a detailed and practical examination of the bioethical issues that confront students, scholars, and practitioners. Noted bioethicists Gerard Magill, Henk ten Have, and David F. Kelly contribute diverse backgrounds and experience that inform the richness of new material covered in this second edition.
The book is organized into three sections: theology (basic issues underlying Catholic thought), methodology (how Catholic theology approaches moral issues, including birth control), and applications to current issues. New chapters discuss controversial end-of-life issues such as forgoing treatment, killing versus allowing patients to die, ways to handle decisions for incompetent patients, advance directives, and physician-assisted suicide. Unlike anthologies, the coherent text offers a consistent method in order to provide students, scholars, and practitioners with an understanding of ethical dilemmas as well as concrete examples to assist in the difficult decisions they must make on an everyday basis.
Synopsis
This is a revised and updated edition of David F. Kelly's 2004 Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics, a comprehensive classroom text that represents a progressive alternative to the more traditional Ashley/O'Rourke corpus. The book includes three sections: theology (basic issues underlying Catholic thought), methodology (how Catholic theology approaches moral issues, including birth control), and applications to current issues in health care from the Catholic perspective. These current issues include several chapters on end-of-life concerns such as forgoing treatment, killing v. allowing to die, decisions for incompetent patients, and advance directives; and physician-assisted suicide. Additional chapters include hydration and nutrition; pain and pain management; hospital ethics committees; stem cell research; and the allocation of health care resources. New chapters in this edition include research ethics, organizational ethics, genetics, and global bioethics. In addition, the existing chapter on allocation of heath care resources has been expand. A glossary describes over fifty key terms in the field.
Synopsis
This is a comprehensive textbook in Catholic medical ethics that integrates theology and methodology into a detailed examination of bioethical issues of interest to scholars, practitioners, and students.