عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
R725.56 .K46 2006eb
R725
.
56
.
K46
2006eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
143563196X
(Number (ISBN
1589013670
(Number (ISBN
9781435631960
(Number (ISBN
9781589013674
Erroneous ISBN
1589011120
Erroneous ISBN
9781589011120
Erroneous ISBN
9781589011120
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b768217
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Medical care at the end of life :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
a Catholic perspective /
First Statement of Responsibility
David F. Kelly.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Washington, DC :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Georgetown University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xi, 180 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-172) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
For over thirty years, David F. Kelly has worked with medical practitioners, students, families, and the sick and dying to confront the difficult and often painful issues that concern medical treatment at the end of life. In this short and practical book, Kelly shares his vast experience, providing a rich resource for thinking about life's most painful decisions. Kelly outlines eight major issues regarding end-of-life care as seen through the lens of the Catholic medical ethics tradition. He looks at the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means; the difference between killing and a.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/ctt2n50pj
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Medical care at the end of life.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Medical care-- Religious aspects-- Catholic Church.
Medical ethics-- Religious aspects-- Catholic Church.
Medicine-- Religious aspects-- Catholic Church.
Catholicism.
Terminal Care-- ethics.
Medical care-- Religious aspects-- Catholic Church.
Medical ethics-- Religious aspects-- Catholic Church.
MEDICAL-- Ethics.
Medicine-- Religious aspects-- Catholic Church.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
MED-- 050000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
174
.
2
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
R725
.
56
Book number
.
K46
2006eb
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
2006
M-939
Class number
WB
310
Book Number
K295m
2006
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Kelly, David F.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201206134202.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
pn
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
