The Normative Approach of the Catholic Tradition in the Ethical and Religious Directives for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas Regarding Medical Technology

<p>The dissertation engages the Catholic Tradition enunciated in the <em>Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services</em> to provide a normative approach for resolving ethical dilemmas regarding pivotal breakthroughs in medical technology.</p> <p>This normative ethical approach has two components: a normative framework for Catholic health care ethics that adopts practical ethical principles as enunciated in the Ethical and Religious<em> </em>Directives (Chapter 2) and secular decision-making models in organizational and clinical ethics that are consistent with the Catholic Tradition (Chapter 3).</p> <p>At the end of the theoretical analysis in these chapters, the conclusion to Chapter 3 explains how this normative approach reflects the Catholic Tradition on Natural Law. This normative approach is then applied to significant ethical dilemmas regarding a variety of pivotal issues that deal with medical technology: reproductive technologies (Chapter 4), regenerative technologies (Chapter 5), and end-of-life technologies (Chapter 6). The conclusion of each of these practical chapters applies the Natural law approach of the Catholic Tradition to offer an ethical critique of each topic based on the Ethical and Religious Directives.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Health Care Ethics

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Garvis, David G.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Gerard Magill
• Henk ten Have
• Joris Gielen

• Ethical Religious Directives
• ERDs
• Catholic Tradition
• Ethics
• Normative Approach
• Ethical Dilemmas
• Medical Technology
• Arts and Humanities
• Ethics in Religion
• Religion

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/229

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1228