Quality of life : the new medical dilemma /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Paulist Press,
[1990]
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Table of Contents:
- Four indicators of humanhood
- Quality of life
- To save or let die
- Quality of life and death
- Quality of life
- "Quality of life" and the analogy with the Nazis
- Meaning and validity of quality of life judgments in contemporary Roman Catholic medical ethics
- Defining the quality of life
- Use of quality of life considerations in medical decision making
- Who shall live?
- Implications of prenatal diagnosis for the quality of, and right to, human life
- Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion
- Terminating treatment for newborns
- Quality of life and defective newborn children
- Projected quality of the patient's life
- Position of the American Academy of Neurology on certain aspects of the care and management of the persistent vegetative state patient.
- Feeding and hydrating the permanently unconscious and other vulnerable persons
- PVS patient and the forgoing/withdrawing of medical nutrition and hydration
- Ethical judgments of quality of life in the care of the aged
- Guiding the hand that feeds
- Care of the elderly dying
- Declaration on Euthanasia
- Euthanasia and the quality of life
- Physician's responsibility toward hopelessly ill patients
- Quality of life and the witholding or withdrawing life-prolonging medical treatment
- Patients with permanent loss of consciousness
- Quality of life in the courts
- "Quality of life"
- Guidelines for legislation on life-sustaining treatment
- Child abuse and neglect
- Providing food and fluids to severely brain damaged patients
- Georgia man asks to turn off life-supporting ventilator.