Patricia Kobielus Thompson spent many years teaching healthcare ethics and moral theology. She is now retired and lives in Meridian, Idaho.
Preface | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Hospice Care | p. 3 |
Origins of Today's Modern Hospice Concept | p. 3 |
Cicely Saunders and the First Modern Hospice | p. 8 |
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | p. 10 |
The Avoidance of Death | p. 12 |
The Present Re-Awakening | p. 13 |
Newer Developments | p. 14 |
Goals of Hospice Care | p. 15 |
Principles of Hospice Care | p. 22 |
The Hospice Code of Ethics | p. 29 |
Summary | p. 43 |
Ethical Considerations and Their Development | p. 47 |
Direction and Focus of These Considerations | p. 47 |
Convergence of Thought and Development of Focus | p. 48 |
Aristotle: The Nichomachean Ethics | p. 48 |
Thomas Aquinas: The Medieval Synthesis | p. 52 |
Summary of Ancient and Medieval Emphases | p. 56 |
The Hippocratic Writings: Medicine's Early Documents | p. 57 |
Philosophical Considerations | p. 59 |
Immanuel Kant: Deontological or Obligation-Based Theory | p. 60 |
Utilitarianism and Consequentialism in Retrospect | p. 62 |
W. D. Ross: Theory of Prima Facie Duties | p. 64 |
Positive and Negative Rights | p. 66 |
Mid-Twentiem-Century Growth in Biomedical Ethics | p. 67 |
The Principles Grounding Modern Bioethical Considerations | p. 69 |
Autonomy | p. 69 |
Nonmaleficence | p. 71 |
Beneficence | p. 72 |
Justice | p. 73 |
Covenant Responsibility | p. 75 |
Virtue Ethics: A Return to the Beginning | p. 79 |
Summary | p. 84 |
The Dark Night of the Soul | p. 87 |
Mysticism | p. 87 |
John of the Cross: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Mystic | p. 91 |
Sixteenth-Century Spain: Literature and Milieu | p. 93 |
The Spanish Inquisition | p. 93 |
The Spanish Mystics: John's Place | p. 95 |
Ascent of Mount Carmel and Dark Night of the Soul | p. 96 |
Dark Night: The Poem and the Purpose of John's Commentaries | p. 97 |
The Structure of Ascent and Dark Night: Major Emphases | p. 102 |
The Active Night of Sense | p. 106 |
The Active Night of Spirit | p. 108 |
The Passive Night of Sense | p. 111 |
The Passive Night of Spirit | p. 114 |
Natural Human Passions-Acceptable or To Be Negated? | p. 116 |
Does John Negate Our Natural Intellect? | p. 119 |
Virtue as an Expression of the Contemplative Soul | p. 123 |
Modern Authors | p. 125 |
Women, Spirituality, and Health Care | p. 128 |
Summary | p. 133 |
Practitioners and the Dark Night | p. 135 |
Medicine and the Law-Influence over Health Care Practitioners' Decision-Making | p. 135 |
Personal Practice: Practitioners and the Dark Night | p. 137 |
One Man's Personal Experience-Spirituality and the Health Care System | p. 141 |
Delving into Essentials: From Nursing to Priesthood-One Man's Journey | p. 146 |
Practitioners: Discernment, Honesty, and Virtue-Centered Practice | p. 150 |
Women's Issues: A Personal Note | p. 150 |
Hospice, Humility, and a Virtuous Professional Life | p. 151 |
The Process of Discernment | p. 155 |
Personal Background and Point of View: Our Responsibility | p. 158 |
Summary | p. 164 |
Patients and the Dark Night | p. 167 |
Acceptance, Letting Go, and Resolution of "Unfinished Business" | p. 168 |
Theologian and Patient: Meeting of the Mind and Heart | p. 170 |
Attachment in Our Modern Society | p. 176 |
Practitioners' Approach to Patients and Families in Light of the Dark Night | p. 180 |
Additional Thoughts and Synthesis for Practitioners | p. 186 |
Summary | p. 188 |
Summary and Conclusions: | p. 191 |
Contemporary Spirituality for Terminal Illness | p. 191 |
General Overview | p. 191 |
The Documents of Vatican Council II | p. 194 |
The Consistent Ethic of Life | p. 197 |
Further Reflections on The Consistent Ethic of Life | p. 200 |
The Pope Speaks | p. 207 |
Conclusion | p. 210 |
Notes | p. 213 |
References Consulted | p. 233 |
Index | p. 251 |
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