Vital conflicts in medical ethics a virtue approach to craniotomy and tubal pregnancies /

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Main Author: Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Murphy, William F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2009.
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240 1 0 |a Güterabwägung, Tötungsverbot und Abtreibung in vitalen Konfliktfällen.  |l English 
245 1 0 |a Vital conflicts in medical ethics  |h [electronic resource] :  |b a virtue approach to craniotomy and tubal pregnancies /  |c Martin Rhonheimer ; edited by William F. Murphy Jr. 
260 |a Washington, D.C. :  |b Catholic University of America Press,  |c c2009. 
300 |a xviii, 162 p. 
500 |a "The text was first published in German under the title "Güterabwägung, Tötungsverbot und Abtreibung in vitalen Konfliktfällen. Lösungsversuch eines klassischen gynäkologischen dilemmas aus tugendethischer perspektive" ... [and] included in M. Rhonheimer, Abtreibung und Lebensschutz. Tötungsverbot und Recht auf Leben in der politischen und medizinischen Ethik (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2003)"--P. xiii. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a The problem. Two methodologies for the moral evaluation of action : the principle of double effect (PDE) and the weighing of goods -- Overview of this study and brief summary of the argument -- "Vital indication" and a recent example : the moral justification of the act of saving a life -- The structure of the argumentation : weighing goods in the case of vital indication -- Church doctrine and past discussions in moral theology. "Direct abortion" according to church doctrine : specification of the concept from the viewpoint of action theory -- The physical and intentional structure of actions : the object of the moral act -- The controversy regarding craniotomy through the end of the nineteenth century : the interpretation of Summa theologiae II-II, q.64, a.7: a. The argument of Pietro Avanzini and the category of the "unjust aggressor" ; b. Summa theologiae II-II, q.64, a.7 : killing in self-defense according to Thomas Aquinas ; c. Critique and the development of the discussion ; d. Waffelaert's incorrect interpretation of ST II-II, q.64, a.7 ; e. The consequences of the confusion -- Life-saving medical interventions : the prohibition of killing and the virtue of justice. Retrospective summary : acts of killing and the ethical context of "justice" -- Reevaluation of contemporary therapies : vital indication and extrauterine gravidity: a. Salpingectomy or segment resection ; b. Linear salpingotomy (or salpingostomy) ; c. Drug treatment with methotrexate ; d. Expectant management -- The moral justification of life-saving measures in the case of vital conflict: a. Recapitulation and conclusive explanation of the ethical argument ; b. The exclusion of the weighing of goods ; c. Objections and response -- Epilogue: Virtue ethics, "direct" and "indirect," and prohibition of killing. 
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650 0 |a Obstetrics  |x Surgery  |x Religious aspects  |x Catholic Church. 
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