"The present volume is comprised partly of what were originally papers given at the First National Conference on Death, Dying and Euthanasia, sponsored by the Australian Institute of Ethics and Professions, together with the Provincial Bioethics Centre for the Catholic Dioceses of Queensland. The Conference was held at St. John's College, the University of Queensland" -- Acknowledgements, p. [v].
Contents: Acknowledgements / John Morgan -- Contributors -- Introduction / John Morgan -- Part I: Death in the Contemporary World -- Part II: How Shall We Die ? -- Part III: Letting Some People Die and Euthanasia Considered -- Part IV: Dying and Euthanasia in a Time of Scarce Resources -- Part V: Regulating Death and Euthanasia -- Part VI: Epilogue -- Appendices -- Index..
Contents of Part I: 1. Easeful Death: Culture and Medicine in the Debate on Death, Dying and Euthanasia / John Morgan -- 2. Look Not at the Sun or Death: Reflections on Death, Dying and Euthanasia / Davis McCaughey
Contents of Part II: 3. What is a Good Death ?: A Doctor's View / Alison M. Holloway -- 4. Care of the Dying: Human Experience and Human Problems: A Nursing Perspective / Elizabeth White -- 5. Death and the Future / Deirdre Gardiner -- 6. Hope in Dying: Palliative Care and a Good Death / Ian Maddocks.
Contents of Part III: 7. Distracters in the Contemporary Debate on Euthanasia / Brian Pollard -- 8. Live and Let Die / Raymond Hoffenburg -- 9. Valuing the Vulnerable: Suicide, Murder and Euthanasia / David Brown -- 10. Some Scepticism about Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide / William F. May.
Contents of Part IV: 11. The Sanctity of Life and Resource Allocation: Voluntarism, Coercion and the Common Good / Malcolm Parker -- 12. Autonomy, Resources and the Sanctity of Life / W.J. Uren.
Contents of Part V: 13. Euthanasia and Withdrawal of Treatment: Legal Perspectives / Brian Bartley -- 14. Legislation, Ethics and Social Policy: The Case of "Dying With Dignity" / Don Stewart -- 15. The Tragic Truth about Dutch Death / John Keown.
Contents of Part VI: The Enigma of Death / Alastair V. Campbell.
Contents of Appendices: Appendix A: Commonwealth: Euthanasia Laws Bill 1996 -- Appendix B: Victoria: Medical Treatment Act 1988 -- Appendix C: South Australia: Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995 -- Appendix D: Northern Territory: Rights of the Terminally Ill Act
Editor is a priest of the Anglican Church of Australia.
"The present volume is comprised partly of what were originally papers given at the First National Conference on Death, Dying and Euthanasia, sponsored by the Australian Institute of Ethics and Professions, together with the Provincial Bioethics Centre for the Catholic Dioceses of Queensland. The Conference was held at St. John's College, the University of Queensland" -- Acknowledgements, p. [v].
Contents: Acknowledgements / John Morgan -- Contributors -- Introduction / John Morgan -- Part I: Death in the Contemporary World -- Part II: How Shall We Die ? -- Part III: Letting Some People Die and Euthanasia Considered -- Part IV: Dying and Euthanasia in a Time of Scarce Resources -- Part V: Regulating Death and Euthanasia -- Part VI: Epilogue -- Appendices -- Index..
Contents of Part I: 1. Easeful Death: Culture and Medicine in the Debate on Death, Dying and Euthanasia / John Morgan -- 2. Look Not at the Sun or Death: Reflections on Death, Dying and Euthanasia / Davis McCaughey
Contents of Part II: 3. What is a Good Death ?: A Doctor's View / Alison M. Holloway -- 4. Care of the Dying: Human Experience and Human Problems: A Nursing Perspective / Elizabeth White -- 5. Death and the Future / Deirdre Gardiner -- 6. Hope in Dying: Palliative Care and a Good Death / Ian Maddocks.
Contents of Part III: 7. Distracters in the Contemporary Debate on Euthanasia / Brian Pollard -- 8. Live and Let Die / Raymond Hoffenburg -- 9. Valuing the Vulnerable: Suicide, Murder and Euthanasia / David Brown -- 10. Some Scepticism about Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide / William F. May.
Contents of Part IV: 11. The Sanctity of Life and Resource Allocation: Voluntarism, Coercion and the Common Good / Malcolm Parker -- 12. Autonomy, Resources and the Sanctity of Life / W.J. Uren.
Contents of Part V: 13. Euthanasia and Withdrawal of Treatment: Legal Perspectives / Brian Bartley -- 14. Legislation, Ethics and Social Policy: The Case of "Dying With Dignity" / Don Stewart -- 15. The Tragic Truth about Dutch Death / John Keown.
Contents of Part VI: The Enigma of Death / Alastair V. Campbell.
Contents of Appendices: Appendix A: Commonwealth: Euthanasia Laws Bill 1996 -- Appendix B: Victoria: Medical Treatment Act 1988 -- Appendix C: South Australia: Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995 -- Appendix D: Northern Territory: Rights of the Terminally Ill Act
Editor is a priest of the Anglican Church of Australia.
"By presenting real-life situations, this guide provides readers with examples of Catholic ethical decision-making in action. This is a practical, must-read book for Catholic who want to know how church teaching can help them work their way through tough decisions and choices". -- back cover.
Contents: Introduction -- Part 1: Bioethics from a Roman Catholic perspective -- Part 2: Reproductive technologies -- Part 3: End-of-life issues -- Part 4: Catholic teaching on living life until the end -- Appendix: Advance directives for health care -- Notes.
"Church of England and Roman Catholic bishops have joined forces to urge Parliament not to change the law on euthanasia, arguing that allowing assisted suicide would undermine the protection of vulnerable people. In a joint submission to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, the Church of England House of Bishops and the Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales describe the Bill as `misguided' and `unnecessary' and warned it would damage the relationship between doctors and patients."
A judge's decision to allow doctors to withhold artificial feeding from a brain-damaged woman has been defended by the Catholic cancer specialist Dr. Sheila Cassidy.
Includes bibliographical references and bibliography, p. 108-120.
The author "describes the historical background and conceptual framework within which the current debate over euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is taking place. While the Roman Catholic position is explored in some detail, the book also addresses the arguments stemming from both philosophical and medical considerations. Using concise, nontechnical language, the author explains the arguments for and against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in a clear and evenhanded manner." -- back cover.
Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- History of Euthanasia -- Self-Determination -- Compassion and Mercy toward the Dying -- Killing vs. Allowing to Die -- The Principle of the Common Good -- The Slippery Slope Argument -- Medical Professionalism -- Conclusions and Commentary -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Author is a medical doctor and Roman Catholic priest.
"[T]he debate about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is more a debate about competing and conflicting moral visions and values than anything else. This book tries to identify the main features of the visions and values shaping the debate, especially those upheld by the Catholic moral tradition.. .... The final chapter tries to 'walk the talk', as it were, by sketching a pastoral response to the euthanasia movement. It will identify the virtues, personal and corporate, which witness to the kind of moral and spiritual life we need to live if our arguments against euthanasia are to be credible". -- Intro.
Contents: Introduction -- The Debate -- Autonomy -- The Prohibition Against Killing -- Beneficence -- Pastoral Response -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Declaration on Euthanasia -- Notes.
"At the heart of Anglicanism and the way in which it perceives the world is the doctrine of the incarnation: the belief that God has identified God's self with humankind in the person and mission of Jesus. This affirmation, says the author, involves three subordinate themes of immediate relevance to our topic; namely, those of suffering, human nature and community." -- inside front cover.
Contents: Foreword / Martin E. Marty -- Preface -- Anglicanism -- Sharing -- Mortality -- Decisions about Death -- Sexuality and New Life -- Notes.
Sexuality and New Life section divided into sub-sections: Biology and Marriage -- Counseling -- Curtailing Reproduction -- New Technologies for Reproduction -- Nascent Life -- Abortion.
Author is "director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and professor of religious studies at Indiana University". -- dust jacket.
Issued also in French under title: Guide d'ethique de la sante.
Previously published under title: Health Care Ethics Guide.
Includes bibliograpical references and index.
Bibliography: pp. 104-111.
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Preamble -- Introduction -- The Communal Nature of Care -- Dignity of the Human Person -- Human Reproduction -- Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation -- Care of the Dying Person -- Research on Human Subjects -- Governance and Administration --Appendix I : A Framework for Ethical Discernment -- Appendix II : The Principle of Legitimate Cooperation -- Appendix III : Glossary of Terms -- Appendix IV: Selected Bibliography -- Index.
"Edited by Dr. Sylvia Lack [and] Dr. Richard Lamerton".
"Illustrations by Harold Bisby".
"Geoffrey Chapman Publishers an imprint of Cassell and Collier, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., London". -- verso of t.-p.
Includes bibliography: p.58-60
Contents: Preface / His Eminence John Carmel, Cardinal Heenan : with a statement by the Very Rev. Dr. Immanuel Jacobovits, the Chief Rabbi -- The Elderly at the End of Life / W. Ferguson Anderson -- Caring for the Dying / Dr. Cicely Saunders / A Sociologist's View of Euthanasia / Donald G. MacRae -- The Symposium : a selection of the topics discussed, suggestions made and conclusions reached by groups of members of the caring professions who attended the conference 'The Hour of Our Death' on the care of the dying held in London, 1973 -- Statements by Dr. Sylvia Lack and Dr. Richard Lamerton -- "The Hour of Our Death" a statement of the Moral Law / Cardinal Heenan -- Bibliography.
Colophon: Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson and Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks.