Quality of life : the new medical dilemma /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Walter, James J., Shannon, Thomas A. (Thomas Anthony), 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Paulist Press, [1990]
Subjects:
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.