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Title: Medically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration: A Contribution to the Dialogue (Essay)
Author : The Hastings Center Report
Release Date : January 01, 2004
Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
Pages : * pages
Size : 171 KB

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The Address to Participants in the International Congress on "Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas," promulgated in March of this year by Pope John Paul II, has become a source of considerable controversy, partly due to the theological and clinical complexity of this issue, and partly because of how it has been portrayed in the popular media. (1) In light of this controversy, many Catholics, as well as Catholic health systems, are re-examining the half-millennium-old tradition of Catholic moral teaching regarding the obligation to use particular means of sustaining human life. (2) In this essay, we seek to foster that effort. In light of that tradition, and particularly the discussion of the principles of proportionate and disproportionate means, we will propose a way of interpreting the recent papal address that has not received significant attention. The Duty to Sustain Life