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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 allowing to die; criteria of patient competence; what to do in the case of incompetent patients; the meaning and use of advance directives; the morality of hydration and nutrition; physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia; and, medical futility. Kelly's analysis is sprinkled with significant legal decisions and, throughout, elaborations on how the Catholic medical ethics tradition - as well as teachings of bishops and popes - understands each issue. He provides a helpful glossary to supplement his introduction to the terminology used by philosophical health care ethics.Included in Kelly's discussion is his lucid description of why the Catholic tradition supports the discontinuation of medical care in the Terry Schiavo case. He also explores John Paul II's controversial papal allocution concerning hydration and nutrition for unconscious patients, arguing that the Catholic tradition does not require feeding the permanently unconscious. "Medical Care at the End of Life" addresses the major issues that inform this last stage of caregiving. It offers a critical guide to understanding the medical ethics and relevant legal cases needed for clear thinking when individuals are faced with those crucial decisions. Outlines eight issues regarding end-of-life care as seen through the lens of the Catholic medical ethics tradition. This title looks at the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means; the difference between killing and allowing to die; criteria of patient competence; what to do in the case of incompetent patients; and, more.

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Notre société contemporaine perçoit la mort comme un échec médical et technologique.Les interrogations de plus en plus vives sur le droit à l'interruption de traitement et à une mort dans la dignité, sur l'euthanasie passive et les limites au soulagement de la douleur par la pharmacologie chez les malades en phase terminale mettent le droit et l'éthique au défi de retrouver un équilibre social entre science et culture. L'ouvrage vise à montrer comment notre société technocratique a faussé les perceptions et attitudes face à la mort, a pratiquement éliminé le contrôle de l'individu sur sa propre mort et finalement fait perdre à celle-ci son sens profond et métaphysique.Il plaide pour une réappropriation individuelle de celle-ci par le droit et l'éthique et un retour à son sens profond, c'est-à-dire au fond à sa réinsertion dans la vie de tous les jours.

Status of persons --- Human rights --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- Death --- Right to die --- Euthanasia --- Terminal care --- Mort --- Droit à la mort --- Euthanasie --- Soins en phase terminale --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Aspect moral --- --Éthique --- --Euthanasie --- --Right to die --- Law and legislation --- Décès (droit) --- Droit --- Ethique médicale --- Sociologie de la mort --- Philosophie --- -Euthanasia --- -Right to die --- -#GBIB:CBMER --- 179.7 --- recht op waardig sterven --- therapeutische hardnekkigheid (therapeutische verbetenheid) --- euthanasie --- dood --- ethiek (ethische aspecten) --- 614.253.8 --- 614.256.3 --- Death, Right to --- Death with dignity --- Natural death (Right to die) --- Life and death, Power over --- Advance directives (Medical care) --- Do-not-resuscitate orders --- Suicide --- Assisted death (Euthanasia) --- Assisted dying (Euthanasia) --- Death, Assisted (Euthanasia) --- Death, Mercy --- Dying, Assisted (Euthanasia) --- Killing, Mercy --- Mercy death --- Mercy killing --- Homicide --- Medical ethics --- Assisted suicide --- droit de mourir dans la dignité --- acharnement thérapeutique --- mort --- ethique (aspects ethiques) --- Droit à la mort --- Droit à la mort. --- Mort. --- Éthique médicale. --- Sociologie de la mort. --- Euthanasie. --- Philosophie. --- #GBIB:CBMER --- Informed consent (Medical law) --- Medical laws and legislation --- Éthique --- Right to die - Law and legislation --- Euthanasia - Law and legislation --- Right to die - Moral and ethical aspects --- Euthanasia - Moral and ethical aspects