Medical Ethics
Tác giả: Bernard Haring
Ký hiệu tác giả: HA-B
DDC: 170 - Đạo đức học
Ngôn ngữ: Anh
Số cuốn: 1

Hiện trạng các bản sách

Mã số: 258SB0016244
Nhà xuất bản: St Pauls Publications
Năm xuất bản: 1972
Khổ sách: 21
Số trang: 250
Kho sách: Thư viện Sao Biển
Tình trạng: Hiện có
CONTENTS
Preface ix   
Introduction  
1. MEDICINE IN SELF-REFLECTION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE 1 1
Knowledge of man: the basis of ethics  6
2. THEOLOGY'S CONTRIBUTION TO MEDICAL ETHICS 11
3. THE ETHOS OF THE ETHICIST IN MODERN MEDICINE  15
4. ETHOS, ETHICAL CODE AND THE MORALITY OF THE PHYSICIAN  23
A. The differentiation of ethos, ethical code, medical ethics and the morality of the physician  23
B. The traditional ethos and changing emphases  25
C. The ethos of the physician in view of the new situation  27
D. Ethos versus ethical code  32
E. The medical ethics of the Church and the conscience of the physician  35
F. The conscience of the physician versus the conscience of the patient  38
5. HUMAN NATURE AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF MEDICINE  42
A. 'Nature': the crux of theology, philosophy and medicine 42
1. The concept of nature in theology 42
2. The concept of nature in philosophy 46
3. The concept of nature in medicine 48
B. The concept of the human body and the embodied spirit  49
C. Is there a nature in which we can read God's will? 53
D. Medical manipulation: the search for valid criteria 58
6. THE LIFE OF MAN 65
A. The meaning of bodily life 66
B. Man's stewardship of his life 69
C. Life entrusted to the love and justice of others 73
D. The beginning of human life 75
1. The origin of the genotype 77
2. The time of segmentation 78
3. Implantation 80
4. The cerebral cortex and hominization 81
E. Birth regulation as a medical problem 85
1. Contraception is not abortion 85
2. Biological processes 86
3. Therapy and birth regulation 87
4. Medical enlightenment 89
5. Sterilization  90
6. Artificial insemination 91
F. Abortion 94
1. The malice of abortion 96
2. The certainty of the presuppositions of the Catholic doctrine  98
3. The Catholic position in a pluralistic society 102
4. A sharper distinction between abortion and contraception 104
5. Clearer distinctions of the malice of abortion 106
6. Human being defined 109
7. Moral principles and pastoral counselling 112
8. The morality of legislation 115
7. THE DEATH OF MAN 120
A. The meaning of death 121
B. The doctor and the moribund patient 125
1. The fullness of freedom 125
2. A spirited quest for meaning 126
3. The patient's right to truth  127
4. The physician's rôle following the patient's death  131
C. The moment of death  131
1. Medical breakthroughs  132
2. Brain death = human death 132
 3. Biological life prolonged 133
4. Death redefined 134
5. Mechanical support for transferable organs 136
D. Organ transplant 137
E. The prolongation of life 138
1. The newness of the problem 138
2. The ethical right to die in dignity 140
3. Criteria for prolonging life 140
F. Euthanasia  144
1. Distinctions needed 144
2. Negative euthanasia: problems 145
3. 'No' to positive euthanasia 148
G. Merciless killing  150
8 . THE HEALTH OF MAN 152
A. The concept of health and illness 152
1. Health: more than physical fitness 153
2. Health and the pursuit of holiness 155
3. The sense and nonsense of illness 157
4. Illness and temptation 160
5. Sinful failure to accept the meaning of illness 163
6. Redemption and healing 165
B . Psychopathology and psychotherapy 167
1. Psychopathology: neurosis-psychosis 167
2. Psychosomatic illness 171
3. Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy  172
(a) Psychoanalysis 172
(b) Logotherapy 173
(c) The dangers of psychoanalysis 176
4. Psychotherapy and secular pastoral care 178
5. Psychiatry and moral problems 180
6. Therapy: homosexuality and similar disturbances 184
(a) Sex deviants differ 184
(b) Is homosexuality an illness? 186
(c) Therapy 187
7. The therapy of drug addiction and alcoholism  189
(a) The various forms of addiction 190
(b) Crime or sickness? 191
(c) The main causes of the actual situation in drug addiction 192
(d) Therapy 197
C. Various ethical issues in therapy 198
1. The physician-patient relationship 199
2. Professional secrecy 201
3. Informing the patient responsibly 203
4. Treatment constituting a moral risk for the patient 204
5. Painless childbirth 205
6. Plastic (cosmetic) surgery 206
7. Who shall have priority for treatment? 206
D. Experimentation with human beings 208
1. The medical code on experimentation 209
2. Decisive ethical perspectives  212
3. The patient as experimental subject 213
4. Conditions for non-therapeutic experimentation on human beings 214
Bibliography 219
Analytical index 236
Name index 249