Medical Ethics

Contents
INTRODUCTION:
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
Attitudes of Persons Facing Their Own
Imminent Death
Attitudes of Persons Not Facing Their Own
Imminent Death
Attitudes of Professionals
CHAPTER TWO: EUTHANASIA
1. Definition of Terms
2. Official Teaching of the Church
Teaching on the Objective Morality of Euthanasia
Teaching on the Subjective Morality of Euthanasia
Morality of the Use of Pain Killers
Right to Die wiih Dignity
3. Moral Theological Discussion
4. Objections Answered
5. Pastoral Reflections
CHAPTER THREE: WITHDRAWING AND WITHHOLDING
MEDICALLY ADMINISTERED NUTRITION
AND HYDRATION
1. What the Magisterium Teaches
2. What Tradition Says
3. What Contemporary Theologians Affir
4. What Physicians, Courts, and People Think
5. What Theological Reasons Point to
6. Meaning of Inviolability of Human Life
7. Notion of a Dying Patient
8. Artificial Nutrition-Hydration as Medical Procedure
9. Right to Die with Dignity
10. Ordinary and Extraordinary Means
11. Withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition-Hydration versus Euthanasia.
12. Scarce Resources and Care
13. 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
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 Scarce Resource
CHAPTER SEVEN: ETHICAL ISSUES IN AIDS
1. Nature’s Wrath or God’s Punishment?
2. AIDS, Confidentiality, and Privacy
3. Other Rights of AIDS Patients
4. Prevention of Aids and Use of Condoms
CHAPTER EIGHT: HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION
AND RESEARCH
1. Need of Human Experimentation
2. Experimentation on Children
3. Experimentation on Fetuses
CONCLUSION:
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
INDEX: