Life on the Line: Ethics, Aging, Ending Patients' Lives, and Allocating Vital ResourcesWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1992 - 349 Seiten This book provides both a biblical approach for addressing any bioethical question and an application of that approach to key end-of-life and resource allocation issues. The general approach explains what it means for a Christian bioethics to be God-centered, reality-bounded, and love-impelled. The end-of-life section explores such crucial issues as withholding and withdrawing treatment, suffering, and assisted suicide. The resource allocation section examines the medical, social, and other criteria that determine who receives scarce health care resources. A major case study opens and closes the book. |
Inhalt
The Challenge at Hand | 1 |
LIVING ETHICALLY | 11 |
A Way of Thinking | 13 |
A GodCentered Ethics | 16 |
A RealityBounded Ethics | 20 |
A LoveImpelled Ethics | 26 |
Other Perspectives | 30 |
Popular Alternatives | 40 |
Withholding vs Withdrawing Treatment | 136 |
Relieving Pain vs Ending Life | 139 |
Extraordinary vs Burdensome Treatment | 142 |
ALLOCATING VITAL RESOURCES | 151 |
Medical Assessments and the Elderly | 153 |
Age Criteria | 155 |
Length of Medical Benefit | 165 |
Quality of Medical Benefit | 166 |
Communicating in a Pluralistic World | 47 |
An Expanded View | 50 |
The GodCentered Dimension | 51 |
The RealityBounded Dimension | 53 |
The LoveImpelled Dimension | 69 |
ENDING PATIENTS LIVES | 73 |
The Patients Wishes | 75 |
A Matter of Definition | 78 |
Models of Relationship | 80 |
The Mentally Capable Patient | 83 |
The Mentally Incapable Patient | 88 |
Taking Someones Life | 95 |
Death | 97 |
Suffering | 103 |
Ending It All | 108 |
Deciding against Treatment | 117 |
Suicide | 118 |
Quality of Life | 121 |
Inappropriate Treatment | 125 |
Important Distinctions | 130 |
Terminal vs Imminent | 131 |
Likelihood of Medical Benefit | 169 |
Medical Benefit | 172 |
Nonmedical Exclusion of the Elderly | 176 |
An Assessment | 179 |
Overarching Critiques | 187 |
The Pursuit of Social Benefit | 194 |
SocialBenefit Criteria | 195 |
SociomedicalBenefit Criteria | 207 |
Determining Who Lives | 222 |
The Individual Patient | 223 |
The Social Context | 227 |
An Overall Approach | 232 |
Ending Lives and Allocating Resources | 235 |
Proper Priorities | 237 |
Sufficient Support | 239 |
Appropriate Control | 241 |
Notes | 244 |
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