Implications of the papal allocution on feeding tubes

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 18-20

  Shannon, Thomas A ^a   Walter, James J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; ENTERIC FEEDING; ETHICS; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MORALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RELIGION; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; CATHOLICISM; ENTERAL NUTRITION; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MORALS; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 5444265647     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3528689     Document Type: Short Survey

References (10)

1. The allocution "Care for Patients in a 'Permanent' Vegetative State" can be found on the Vatican web site" at http://www.vatican.va/ holy-father/john-paul-ii/speeches/2004/march/documents/hf-jp-ii-spe-20040320- congress-fiamc-en.html or in Origins 33 (April 8, 2004): 737 and 739-40.
2. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Declaration on Euthanasia," in Origins 10 (August 14, 1980): 154-57.
3. For example, see T.A. Shannon and J.J. Walter, "The PVS Patient and the Forgoing/Withdrawing of Medical Nutrition and Hydration," Theological Studies 49 (1988): 623-47;
4. J. Torchia, O.P., "Artificial Hydration and Nutrition for the PVS Patient," The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 3 (2003): 719-30;
5. CD. Coleman, "Take and Eat: Morality and Medically Assisted Feeding," America 190 (April 5, 2004): 16-20;
6. T.A. Shannon and J.J. Walter, "Artificial Nutrition, Hydration: Assessing Papal Statement," National Catholic Reporter, April 16, 2004. http://natcath.org/NCR-Online/archives2/2004b/041604/041604i.ph p; R. Hamel and M. Panicola, "Must We Preserve Life?" America 190 (April 19, 2004): 6-8;
7. M. Panicola, "Catholic Teaching on Prolonging Life: Setting the Record Straight," Hastings Center Report 31, no. 6 (2001): 14-25.
8. G. Kelly, The Duty of Using Artificial Means of Preserving Life," Theological Studies 11 (1950): 203-20.
9. G. Kelly, "Tissue Transplantation," The Human Body: Papal Teachings (May 14, 1956), 380-83.
10. Pope Pius XII, "Christian Principles and the Medical Profession," (November 12, 1944), The Human Body: Papal Teachings, 56-58.