The Catholic Health Association’s response to the papal allocution on artificial nutrition and hydration

Virtual Mentor

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 388-392

  Hamel, Ron ^a  

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EID: 84855164165     PISSN: 19377010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2007.9.5.oped1-0705     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. 4th ed. Washington, DC: USCCB; 2001. http://www.usccb.org/bishops/directives.shtml. Accessed April 16, 2007.
2. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Directive 58.
3. See Cronin DA. The moral law in regard to the ordinary and extraordinary means of conserving human life. In: Smith RE, ed. Conserving Human Life. Braintree, MA: National Catholic Bioethics Center; 1989:90-92. Cronin’s doctoral dissertation, which is included in the book edited by Russell Smith, is the most comprehensive discussion of the Catholic tradition on the duty to prolong life and its limits.
4. See Pontifical Council Cor Unum. Question of Ethics Regarding the Fatally Ill and the Dying. Vatican City: Vatican Press; 1981:20-23. http://www.academiavita.org/template.jsp?sez=DocumentiMagistero&pag=pontifici_consigli/mal_mor/mal_mor&lang=english. Accessed April 13, 2007;
5. See also Pontifical Academy of Sciences.; The artificial prolongation of life. Origins. 1985;15:415; Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers. Charter for Health Care Workers. Vatican City: Vatican Press; 1995.
6. United States Council of Catholic Bishops Committee on Pro-Life Activities. Nutrition and hydration: moral and pastoral reflections. Origins. 1992;21:705-712.
7. New Jersey Catholic Conference. Friend of the Court Brief: On Withdrawing Food and Fluids from Brain-Damaged Patients. Origins. 1987;16:582. See
8. also: Bishop James McHugh. Principles in regard to withholding or withdrawing artificially assisted nutrition and hydration. Origins. 1989;19:314-316.
9. In addition see, Pennsylvania Bishops. Nutrition and hydration: moral considerations. Origins. 1992;21:542-553.
10. Wooden C. Vatican bioethicist: All patients have right to hydration, nutrition. Catholic News Service: March 16, 2004
11. Vatican Information Service, International Congress on Vegetative State. March 16, 2004.