Catholic Health East: Ethics Topics

Topics:

Proportionality

	+ Also see End of Life Issues
	+ Also See Futility
	+ Also see Ordinary/Extraordinary Means
	+ Also see Withholding/Withdrawing Treatment
Church Teaching
	Directive 30 (23K) Ethical criteria for organ donation
	Directive 32 (23K) Circumstances when one can ethically refuse to submit to a health care procedure, based on a benefit/burden analysis
	Directive 33 (23K) Therapeutic intervention and the well-being of the whole person
	Directive 47 (24K) When medical procedures that threaten unborn children may be undertaken
	Directive 48 (24K) Extrauterine pregnancies and abortion
	Directive 49 (24K) Early induction of labor
	Directive 51 (24K) Non-therapeutic v. therapeutic experimentation on living embryos and fetuses; parental consent Keywords:
	Directive 56 (24K) Explains "proportionate means"
	Directive 57 (24K) Explains "disproportionate means"
	Ethical and Religious Directives (54K) ERDs 32-3; 55-7
Article/Commentary
	Ordinary/Extraordinary Means; Significant Moral Decision
	Reclaiming Our Moral Tradition 1997 - An overview of Catholic Teaching on accepting the limits of medical technology. Health Progress
Case
	Module 15 Case of Elizabeth Bouvia (33K) Keywords: Case
	Module 18 Case of Angela Carter (37K) Dying mother refuses C-Section. Washington, D.C. case Keywords: Cases

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