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ARTIFICIAL NUTRITION AND HYDRATION IBD

SPRINGER
11 / 2010
9789048175673
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Preface: Christopher Tollefsen,Part One: The Issue,1: Why Do Unresponsive Patients Still Matter?Bishop Anthony Fisher, O.P.,2: Are We Morally Obligated to Feed PVS Patients Until Natural Death?Michael Degnan,3: Caring for Persons in the ?Persistent Vegetative State? and Pope John Paul II?s March 2004 Address ?On Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State?.William E. May,4: Food and Fluids: Human Law, Human Rights and Human Interests.Jacqueline Laing,Part Two: Philosophers Address the Issue.5: Quality of Life and Assisted Nutrition.Alfonso Gomez-Lobo,6: Towards Ethical Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration.Joseph Boyle,7: Understanding the Ethics of Artificially Providing Food and Water.J.L.A. Garcia,8: The Ethics of Pope John Paul?s Allocution on Care of the PVS Patient: A Response to J.L.A. Garcia.Peter Cataldo,Part Three: Symposium on the Views of Fr. Kevin O?Rourke, O.P.9: Reflections on the Papal Allocution Concerning Care for PVS Patients.Fr. Kevin O?Rourke, O.P,10:The Papal Allocution Concerning Care for PVS Patients: a Reply to Fr. O?Rourke.Patrick Lee,11: Response to Patrick Lee.Fr. Kevin O?Rourke, O.P.,12: The Morality of Tube Feeding PVS Patients: A Critique of the View of Kevin O?Rourke, O.P.Mark S. Latkovic,Part Four: Concluding Reflections.12: Ten Errors Regarding End of Life Issues, and Especially Artificial Nutrition and Hydration.Christopher Tollefsen.