Description

Dr. Felix Podimattam is one of the best-known moral theologians in India & outside. Besides his full time job as a professor, he finds time to write books at an amazing rate. He has authored 136 books.
Besides his Master’s degree in Political Science from Mysore, he holds a Licentiate in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, & subsequently a Doctorate in Moral Theology from the Alphonsian Academy, Rome. ‘His post-doctoral studies were pursued in Washington, DC, USA. At present he is professor of Moral Theology at St. Francis Theological College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.

CONTENTS
INTROUDUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
DEATH AND THE DETERMINATION OF DEATH
1. Philosophical and Theological Considerations
2. Criteria for Death
3. Legal Aspects of Pronouncing Death
4. Attitudes toward Death
4.1. Attitudes of Persons Facing Their Own Imminent Death
4.2. Attitudes of Persons Not Facing Their Own Imminent Death
4.3. Attitudes of Professionals
4.4. Beyond the Dying
CHAPTER TWO
EUTHANASIA.
1. Definition of Terms
2. Official Teaching of the Church
2.1. Teaching on the Objective Morality of Euthanasia
2.2. Teaching on the Subjective Morality of Euthanasia.
2.3. Morality of the Use of Pain Killers
2.4.RighttoDiewithDignit
3. Moral Theological Discussion.
4. Objections Answered.
5. Pastoral Reflections
CHAPTERTHREE
WITHDRAWING AND WITHHOLDING MEDICALLY ADMINISTERED NUTRITION AND HYDRATION
1. What the Magisterium Teaches
2.WhatTraditionSay
3. What Contemporary Theologians Affirm
4. What Phvsicians, Courts, and People Think
5. What Theological Reasons Point to
5.1.Meaningof Inviolability of Human Life
5.2. Notion of a Dying Patient
5.3. ArtificialNutrition-Hydrationas Medical Procedure
5.4. Right to Die with Dignity
5.5. Ordinary and Extraordinary Means
5.6. Withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition Hydration versus Euthanasia
6 Biomedical Ethics
5.7. Scarcc Resources andCare
5.8. Answer to Objections
CHAPTER FOUR
CARE OF HOPELESSLY ILL PATIENTS
CHAPTER FIVE
SERIOUSLY DEFECTIVE BABY TO LIVE OR LET DIE?
1. Medical Considerations
2. Moral Reflections….133
3. Pastoral Observations
CHAPTER SIX
ETHICAL ISSUES IN ORGAN DONATION AND
TRANSPLANTATION
1. The Intrinsic Morality of Organ Transplantation.
2. The Determination of Death
3. The Supply of Organs
4. Selection of Patients for a Scarcc Resource
CHAPTER SEVEN
HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION AND RESEARCH.
1.Needof Human Experimentation
2. Experimentation on Children
3.Experimentation onFetuses
CHAPTER EIGHT
OTHER RELATED ISSUES
1. Psychotherapy and Morality.
1.1. The Primary Objective of Psychotherapy
1.2. The Nature of Psychiatric Explanation
1.3. The Limitations of Psychological Treatment
1.4. Psychotherapy: Potential and Limit
1.5. The Morals of Psychotherapy
1.6. The Sources of Therapeutic Morality
2. Moral Aspects of Transsexualism
3. Sexual Ethics for the Sexually Disenfranchised
3.1. Sexual Ethics for the Physically Disabled.5
3.2. Sexual Ethics for the Seriously 111
3.3. SexualEthics forthe Aging.
3.4. Sexual Ethics for the Mentally Retarded
4. Narcoanalysis!
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ENDNOTES.
INDEX