Artificial nutrition and hydration and the permanently unconscious patient the Catholic debate /

Table of Contents: “…/ Ronald Hamel and Michael Panicola -- The prolongation of life / Pope Pius XII -- Declaration on euthanasia / Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith -- The artificial prolongation of life / Pontifical Academy of Sciences -- On withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration / Texas bishops and the Texas Conference of Catholic Health Facilities -- Nutrition and hydration : moral and pastoral reflections / National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities -- Ethical and religious directives : introduction to Part V and Directives 57-58 / United States Conference of Catholic Bishops -- The PVS patient and the forgoing/withdrawing of medical nutrition and hydration / Thomas A. …”
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Medical care at the end of life a Catholic perspective / by Kelly, David F.

Table of Contents: “…Ordinary and extraordinary means -- Killing and allowing to die -- Decisions by competent patients -- Decisions for incompetent patients -- Advance directives -- Hydration and nutrition -- Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia -- Medical futility.…”
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Medicine, health care, & ethics Catholic voices /

Table of Contents: “…/ Benedict Ashley -- Abortion: a Catholic moral analysis / Jeanne Heffernan -- Medically assisted nutrition and hydration in medicine and moral theology : a contextualization of its past and a direction for its future / John Berkman -- Two arguments against euthanasia / Brendan Sweetman -- Genetics and ethics : Is the ministry prepared to answer ethical questions raised by the Human Genome Project? …”
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