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"Health Care Ethics" is a comprehensive study of significant issues
affecting health care and the ethics of health care from the
perspective of Catholic theology. It aims to help Christian, and
especially Catholic, health care professionals solve concrete
problems in terms of principles rooted in scripture and tested by
individual experience; however, its basis in real medical
experience makes this book a valuable resource for anyone with a
general interest in health care ethics. This fifth edition, which
includes important contributions by Jean deBlois, C.S.J., considers
everyday ethical questions and dilemmas in clinical care and deals
more deeply with issues of women's health, mental health, sexual
orientation, artificial reproduction, and the new social issues in
health care. The authors devote special attention to the various
ethical theories currently in use in the United States while
clearly presenting a method of ethical decision making based in the
Catholic tradition. They discuss the needs of the human person,
outlining what it means to be human, both as an individual and as
part of a community. This volume has been significantly updated to
include new discussions of recent clinical innovations and
theoretical issues that have arisen in the field: the Human Genome
Project; efforts to control sexual selection of infants; efforts to
genetically modify the human genotype and phenotype; the
development of palliative care as a medical specialty; the
acceptance of non-heart beating persons as organ donors; embryo
development and stem cell research; reconstructive and cosmetic
surgery; nutrition and obesity; medical mistakes; the negative
effects of managed care on the patient-physician relationship; and,
recent papal allocution regarding care of patients in a persistent
vegetative state and palliative care for dying patients.
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