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Release: 2002-05-20
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0878408827
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Allocating Scarce Medical Resources pdf
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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, the health care industry can with increasing accuracy predict the probability of saving lives -- and at what cost.Because critical care involves hard choices in the face of finitude, it invites profound questions about the meaning of life, the nature of a good death, and distributive justice. For those who identify the prize of human life as immortality, the question arises as to how much effort should be invested in marginally postponing death. In a secular culture tha Download Allocating Scarce Medical Resources for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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