Palliative Care and Catholic Health Care: Two Millennia of Caring for the Whole Person
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the compatibility of palliative care with the vision of human dignity in the Catholic moral and theological traditions. The unique value of this book is that it presents expert analysis of the major domains of palliative care and how they are compatible with, and enhanced by, the holistic vision of the human person in Catholic health care. This volume will serve as a critically important ethical and theological resource on palliative care, including care at the end of life, for bioethicists, theologians, palliative care specialists, other health care professionals, Catholic health care sponsors, health care administrators and executives, clergy, and students. Patients receiving palliative care and their families will also find this book to be a clarifying and reassuring resource. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Introduction (Peter J. Cataldo, Dan O’Brien)....Pages 1-6 Front Matter ....Pages 7-7 Palliative Care and the Catholic Healing Ministry: Biblical and Historical Roots (Dan O’Brien)....Pages 9-24 Catholic Moral Teaching and Tradition on Palliative Care and Hospice (Peter J. Cataldo)....Pages 25-44 Meeting Mortality: Palliative Care and the Ars Moriendi (Charles Bouchard)....Pages 45-57 Palliative Care: Euthanasia by Another Name? (Ron Hamel)....Pages 59-73 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 The Catholic Moral Tradition on Pain and Symptom Management (G. Kevin Donovan)....Pages 77-88 Spiritual Care in Palliative Care (David A. Lichter)....Pages 89-107 Psychological Issues in Catholic Palliative Care: The Challenge of Requests to Hasten Death (Daniel P. Dwyer)....Pages 109-117 Care of the Family and Social Aspects of Care (Sarah E. Hetue Hill)....Pages 119-137 Integrating Palliative Care into the Treatment of Serious Illness (Christopher W. Lawton, Diane E. Meier)....Pages 139-159 Front Matter ....Pages 161-161 Palliative Care and the Common Good (James P. Bailey)....Pages 163-179 Catholic Health Care and Models for Advancing Excellence in Palliative Care (Tina Picchi)....Pages 181-198 Catholic Education on Palliative Care: Lessons Learned and Observations Made from the Field (M. C. Sullivan)....Pages 199-207 Catholic Moral Teaching and Tradition on Advance Care Planning (Mark Repenshek, Leslie Schmidt)....Pages 209-222 Medical Mercy and Its Counterfeit (Elliott Louis Bedford)....Pages 223-239 Back Matter ....Pages 241-282
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