Hard Decisions: Forgoing and Withdrawing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
What are feeding tubes? Why are they used? Must they always be used? What does Catholic teaching have to say about tube feeding? How can relatives reach sound moral decisions about using, forgoing, or withdrawing tube feeding from incompetent loved ones? Why do courts, state legislatures, and well-informed citizens disagree about whether or not tube feeding is ordinarily required? In Hard Decisions, Eileen P. Flynn, a respected Roman Catholic moral theologian, presents through and balanced answers to today's questions about tube feeding.
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Hard Decisions: Forgoing and Withdrawing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
What are feeding tubes? Why are they used? Must they always be used? What does Catholic teaching have to say about tube feeding? How can relatives reach sound moral decisions about using, forgoing, or withdrawing tube feeding from incompetent loved ones? Why do courts, state legislatures, and well-informed citizens disagree about whether or not tube feeding is ordinarily required? In Hard Decisions, Eileen P. Flynn, a respected Roman Catholic moral theologian, presents through and balanced answers to today's questions about tube feeding.
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Hard Decisions: Forgoing and Withdrawing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

Hard Decisions: Forgoing and Withdrawing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

by Eileen P. Flynn
Hard Decisions: Forgoing and Withdrawing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

Hard Decisions: Forgoing and Withdrawing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

by Eileen P. Flynn

Overview

What are feeding tubes? Why are they used? Must they always be used? What does Catholic teaching have to say about tube feeding? How can relatives reach sound moral decisions about using, forgoing, or withdrawing tube feeding from incompetent loved ones? Why do courts, state legislatures, and well-informed citizens disagree about whether or not tube feeding is ordinarily required? In Hard Decisions, Eileen P. Flynn, a respected Roman Catholic moral theologian, presents through and balanced answers to today's questions about tube feeding.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781556123047
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 06/01/1989
Pages: 106
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.48(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Eileen P. Flynn is a Roman Catholic moral theologian who has written five books dealing with ethical issues. Dr. Flynn is also co-author of Living Faith: An Introduction to Theology.
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