Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives

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ISBN: 9780878408825 | 0878408827
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Copyright: 6/1/2002

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Roman Catholic moral theology is the point of departure for this multifaceted exploration of the challenge of allocating scarce medical resources. Premier scholars provide essays from Jewish, Orthodox Christian, and Protestant perspectives.

Preface

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

Acknowledgment

PART I MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION

Infinite Expectations and Finite Resources: A Roman Catholic Perspective on Setting Limits to Critical Care, or, Can Roman Catholic Moral Theology Offer More than Secular Morality Provides?

(16)

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

Facing the Challenges of High-Technology Medicine: Taking the Tradition Seriously

(16)

Mark J. Cherry

PART II A MORAL CONSENSUS STATEMENT

Consensus Statement

(8)

Working Group on Roman Catholic Approaches to Determining Appropriate Critical Care

PART III THE CHALLENGES OF CRITICAL CARE: HIGH TECHNOLOGY RISING COSTS, AND GUARDED PROMISES

Respect for Human Life in the World of Intensive Care Units: Secular and Reform Jewish Reflections on the Roman Catholic View

(10)

Michael A. Rie

What Is Appropriate Intensive Care? A Roman Catholic Perspective

(24)

Paulina Taboada

PART IV MORAL THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Limiting Access to Health Care: A Traditional Roman Catholic Analysis

(19)

Joseph Boyle

Toward a Personalistic Ethics of Limiting Access to Medical Treatment: Philosophical and Catholic Positions

(29)

Josef Seifert

Equal Care as the Best of Care: A Personalist Approach

125

(15)

Paul T. Schotsmans

Quality of Life and Human Dignity: Meaning and Limits of Prolongation of Life

140

(17)

Ludger Honnefelder

PART V MORAL AND PUBLIC POLICY CHALLENGES

Beyond the Question of Limits: Institutional Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of Critical Care

157

(20)

George Khushf

Developing the Doctrine of Distributive Justice: Methods of Distribution, Redistribution, and the Role of Time in Allocating Intensive Care Resources

177

(23)

M. Cathleen Kaveny

Creating Critical Care Resources: Implications for Distributive Justice

200

(15)

Kevin W. Wildes, S.J.

PART VI FROM A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: JEWISH, ORTHODOX, AND PROTESTANT PERSPECTIVES

Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources to Critical Care: A Perspective from the Jewish Canonical Tradition

215

(22)

Teodoro Forcht Dagi

The Current Medical Crises of Resources: Some Orthodox Christian Reflections

237

(26)

Very Reverend Edward Hughes

The Allocation of Medical Services: The Problem from a Protestant Perspective

263

(12)

Dietrich Rossler

PART VII CRITICAL COMMENTARY

Between Secular Reason and the Spirit of Christianity: Catholic Approaches to Limiting Access to Scarce Medical Resources

275

(22)

Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes

Catholicizing Health

297

(13)

James W. Heisig

Roman Catholic Theology and the Allocation of Resources to Critical Care: The Boundaries of Faith and Reason

310

(11)

Mary Ann Gardell Cutter

Contributors

321

(2)

Index

323

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