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Medical Care at the End of Life - A Catholic Perspective (Paperback)
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Medical Care at the End of Life - A Catholic Perspective (Paperback)
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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.
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