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Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives - Engelhardt, H Tristram (Contributions by), and Cherry, Mark J (Contributions by), and Rie, Michael A (Contributions by)
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Roman Catholic moral theology is the point of departure for this multifaceted exploration of the challenge of allocating scarce medical resources. The volume begins its exploration of discerning moral limits to modern high-technology medicine with a consensus statement born of the conversations among its contributors. The seventeen essays use the example of critical care, because it offers one of the few areas in medicine where there are good clinical predictive measures regarding the likelihood of survival. As a result, ...

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Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives 2002, Georgetown University Press, Washington

ISBN-13: 9780878408825

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