Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic PerspectivesH. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. MD, PhD, Mark J. Cherry Georgetown University Press, 20.05.2002 - 344 Seiten Roman Catholic moral theology is the point of departure for this multifaceted exploration of the challenge of allocating scarce medical resources. The volume begins its exploration of discerning moral limits to modern high-technology medicine with a consensus statement born of the conversations among its contributors. The seventeen essays use the example of critical care, because it offers one of the few areas in medicine where there are good clinical predictive measures regarding the likelihood of survival. As a result, the health care industry can with increasing accuracy predict the probability of saving lives—and at what cost. Because critical care involves hard choices in the face of finitude, it invites profound questions about the meaning of life, the nature of a good death, and distributive justice. For those who identify the prize of human life as immortality, the question arises as to how much effort should be invested in marginally postponing death. In a secular culture that presumes that individuals live only once, and briefly, there is an often-unacknowledged moral imperative to employ any means necessary to postpone death. The conflict between the free choice of individuals and various aspirations to equality compounds the challenge of controlling medical costs while also offering high-tech care to those who want its possible benefits. It forces society to confront anew notions of ordinary versus extraordinary, and proportionate versus disproportionate, treatment in a highly technologically structured social context. This cluster of discussions is enriched by five essays from Jewish, Orthodox Christian, and Protestant perspectives. Written by premier scholars from the United States and abroad, these essays will be valuable reading for students and scholars of bioethics and Christian moral theology. |
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... Ethics Series H. Tristram Engelhardt , Jr. and Kevin Wm . Wildes , S.J. , Series Editors Balancing Act : The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics E. Haavi Morreim Beyond a Western Bioethics : Voices from the Developing World ...
... ethics . 2. Christian ethics - Catholic authors . I. Engelhardt , H. Tristram ( Hugo Tristram ) , 1941– II . Cherry , Mark J. III . Clinical medical ethics ( Washington , D.C. ) R725.55 .A43 2002 174'.2 - dc21 2001040800 Preface H ...
... Ethics of Limiting Access to Medical Treatment : Philosophical and Catholic Positions 96 Josef Seifert Equal Care as the Best of Care : A Personalist Approach 125 Paul T. Schotsmans Quality of Life and Human Dignity : Meaning and Limits ...
... ethics and still remain an ethics worthy of the name ? • Can the moral life be fully understood only within the Christian faith ? • If a Christian bioethics claims special moral insights , is it sectarian ? The conflict between the ...
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A Traditional Roman Catholic Analysis | 77 |
Philosophical and Catholic Positions | 96 |
A Personalist Approach | 125 |
Implications for Distributive Justice | 200 |
A Perspective from the Jewish Canonical Tradition | 215 |
Some Orthodox Christian Reflections | 237 |
The Problem from a Protestant Perspective | 263 |
Approaches to Limiting Access to Scarce Medical Resources | 275 |
Catholicizing Health | 297 |
The Boundaries of Faith and Reason | 310 |
Contributors | 321 |
Meaning and Limits of Prolongation of Life | 140 |
Institutional Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of Critical Care | 157 |
Methods of Distribution Redistribution and the Role of Time in Allocating Intensive Care Resources | 177 |
Index | 323 |