Critical Choices and Critical Care

The Moral Paradox of Critical Care Medicine.- One: Clinical Questions.- Ethical Issues Raised by Intensive Care.- Ethical Issues in Intensive Care: Criteria for Treatment Within the Creation of a Health Insurance Morality.- Commentary on: Brody & Rie.- Intensive Care: Its Nature and Problems.- Ethical Issues in Critical Care: Criteria for Treatment.- Two: Moral Reflections on The Clinic.- Conserving Life and Conserving Means: Lead Us Not Into Temptation.- The Old and the New In the Doctrine of the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Means.- Admission to and Removal From Intensive Care: A Personalist Approach.- The Notion of Criterion in Critical Care Ethics.- Distributive Justice in the Era of the Benefit Package: The Dispute Over the Oregon Basic Health Services Act.- three: appendices.- Appendix a. Pope pius xii/the prolongation of life.- Appendix b. Congregation for the doctrine of the faith /Declaration on euthanasia.- Appendix c. Society of critical care medicine ethicsCommittee/consensus statement on the triage of Critically ill patients.- Notes on contributors.