Artificial Nutrition and Hydration The New Catholic Debate /

Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration. While many Catholic bioethicists defended the Pope’s claim that the life of all human beings, eve...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Tollefsen, Christopher. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Catholic Studies in Bioethics, 93
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6207-0