Chapter 1 Biology, Consciousness, and the Definition of Death Chapter 2 Catholic Teaching on Prolonging Life: Setting the Record Straight Chapter 3 Tube Feeding and Advance Progressive Dementia Chapter 4 Secondary and Tertiary Pallative Care in the US Hospitals Chapter 5 The Oregon Report: Don't Ask, Don't Tell Chapter 6 Responding to Requests for Physician-Assisted Suicide: These Are Uncharted Waters for Both of Us... Chapter 7 Physician-Assisted Suicide: Ten Questions Chapter 8 I Could Not Give Her Health but I Could Give Her Rest: It's Over, Debbie Chapter 9 The History of Euthanasia Debates in the United States and Britain Chapter 10 Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act
Thomas A. Shannon is professor of religion and social ethics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of many articles and books in Catholic Social Thought, bioethics, and genetics. He is co-author with Thomas Massaro of Catholic Perspectives on Peace and War, with James Walter of The New Genetic Medicine, and is the editor of the series Readings in Bioethics for Sheed & Ward.
Once again, Shannon has packed a comprehensive course on bioethics
into a concise and accessible reader. The ten essays in this
anthology on the contemporary state of death and dying cover the
religious, legal, moral, and historical bases with the speed and
sure-footedness of a seasoned pro, and bring the tough questions
about terminal care and assisted suicide into sharp focus.
*Patrick T. McCormick, Gonzaga University, Spokane*
Shannon's book provides us with an excellent comprehensive view of
the issues of death and dying starting with the biological
perspectives of death to palliative care and physician-assisted
suicide. The various articles give bioethicists and students of
bioethics both a solid foundation for further critical study in
this important ethical area and practical guidance on how to
approach these issues in a sensitive and judicious manner.
*Peter A. Clark, S.J., Ph.D., John McShain Chair in Ethics, Saint
Joseph's University and recent author of To Treat or Not To Treat
(Fordham University Press,*
This book should be of interest to all of us who face death for
ourselves and our loved ones, but especially to current or future
medical, counseling, and pastoral professionals.
*Bridges, Volume 12 (1/2)*
Overall, this reader will be useful to those interested in certain
issues surrounding end-of-life care as it pulls together some
excellent recent articles that are not available in any other
edited volumes on this topic.
*American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly*
In this compact collection of well-written essays are all the
issues—biological, medical, interpersonal, historical, legal,
ethical, and religious—pertinent to thoughtful reflection on death
and dying. Not only is this fine volume comprehensive, it is also
interdisciplinary in scope. Readers are drawn into enlightening
conversation with medical ethicists, clinicians, and health care
administrators.
*Patricia Beattie Jung, associate professor of theology, Loyola
University Chicago*
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