Medical Care at the End of Life

Medical Care at the End of Life addresses the major issues that inform this last stage of caregiving as seen through the lens of the Catholic medical ethics tradition. The book explains the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means, the difference between killing and allowing to die, criteria of patient competence, what to do in the case of incompetent patients, the meaning and use of advance directives, the morality of hydration and nutrition, physician assisted suicide and euthanasia, and medical futility.

Year

2006

Language

English

Publisher

Georgetown University Press

Editions

3

Pages

180

ISBN

9781589011120

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