Author / Monica Delles
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Pathways to Convergence Report
Pathways to Convergence Report The Center for Practical Bioethics with the support of Pew Charitable Trusts engaged a small group of Catholic leaders from clinical, clerical, ethical, and theological perspectives in an extended discussion to explore areas of convergence and divergence around palliative care and advance care planning in American society. This steering group independently…
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Living Wills
Decisions about medical care involve choices based on ethical and other values.
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Beyond the Law: A Philosophical Note
Beyond the Law – A Philosophical Note Hans Uffelmann, co-founder of the Center, asserts that the laws of society reflect its moral values and therefore, an application of those laws to specific cases is a matter of both legal and ethical decision making.
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Missouri’s Living Will Law
Missouri’s living will law became effective in September 1985.
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Difficult Decisions in Health Care
What does quality of life mean?
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Beyond Living Wills
Are living wills too ambiguous to guide medical decision making?
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Advocating for the Dying – The View of Family and Friends
Advocating for the Dying – The View of Family and Friends Imagine you are being forced to play a game. You don’t know the rules. People playing the game with you know the rules but don’t bother to explain them. They can be changed at any time, depending on who is in charge. Some…
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Reflections on Cultural Difference and Advance Directives
Advance care planning cannot assume a single meaning of autonomy.
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A Practical Advance Directive Survey
A survey of 11 Kansas City hospitals showed support for advance care planning.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Different Approach
Physician Assisted Suicide – A Different Approach More requests for physician-assisted suicide are not due to present suffering. Steps must be designed to uncover the real roots of the desire so that they can be specifically addressed. Examples of such steps are proposed.
