Critical Choices and Critical Care

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. The Moral Paradox of Critical Care Medicine

   1. The Moral Paradox of Critical Care Medicine

      • Kevin Wm. Wildes

      Pages 1-4

3. Clinical Questions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Ethical Issues Raised by Intensive Care

      • Baruch A. Brody

      Pages 7-22

   3. Ethical Issues in Intensive Care: Criteria for Treatment within the Creation of a Health Insurance Morality

      • Michael A. Rie

      Pages 23-56

   4. Commentary on: Brody & Rie

      • Miguel A. Sanchez-Gonzalez

      Pages 57-61

   5. Intensive Care its Nature and Problems

      • Alejandro Serani-Merlo, Pedro Rosso

      Pages 63-78

   6. Ethical Issues in Critical Care: Criteria for Treatment

      • Herman H. Delooz

      Pages 79-101

4. Moral Reflections on the Clinic

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Conserving Life and Conserving Means: Lead Us Not into Temptation

      • Kevin Wm. Wildes

      Pages 105-118

   3. The Old and the New in the Doctrine of the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Means

      • Diego Gracia

      Pages 119-125

   4. Admission to and Removal from Intensive Care: a Personalist Approach

      • Paul T. Schotsmans

      Pages 127-143

   5. The Notion of Criterion in Critical Care Ethics

      • Thomas R. Kopfensteiner

      Pages 145-161

   6. Distributive Justice in the Era of the Benefit Package: The Dispute Over the Oregon Basic Health Services Act

      • M. Cathleen Kaveny

      Pages 163-185

5. Back Matter

   Pages 187-220

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Critical Choices and Critical Care brings together the traditional reflections on ordinary and extraordinary means with Catholic social thought. It examines the difficult questions on the allocation of high technology resources used in intensive care medicine. The book also provides relevant background information (e.g. statements by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith). It is accessible to theologians, philosophers, and health care professionals.

• Ethical Issues
• ethics
• health
• intensive care medicine
• morality

• Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA

  Kevin Wm. Wildes

Policies and ethics