Research Catalog

Title

Quality of life : the new medical dilemma / edited by James J. Walter, Thomas A. Shannon.

Publication

New York : Paulist Press, ©1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Walter, James J.
• Shannon, Thomas A. (Thomas Anthony), 1940-

Description

vi, 357 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Brings together 32 of the best articles dealing with "Quality of life" questions.

Subject

• American Academy of Neurology
• American Medical Association
• Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
• Medical ethics
• Quality of life
• quality of life
• Qualité vie
• Éthique des médecins
• Bioéthique
• Philosophie médicale
• Kwaliteit van het bestaan
• Patiënten
• Ethische aspecten
• Éthique médicale
• Qualité de la vie
• Ethics, Medical
• Quality of Life

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN

• 0809131919
• 9780809131914

LCCN

90041235

OCLC

• ocm21973606
• 21973606
• SCSB-1930856

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library