The case of Terri Schiavo : ethics at the end of life

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The case of Terri Schiavo : ethics at the end of life

edited by Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney, and Dominic A. Sisti ; foreword by Jay Wolfson

Prometheus Books, 2006

  • pbk.

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Contents of Works

  • pt. 1. Setting the stage
  • Introduction
  • The preservation of life / Charles J. McFadden
  • The percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube : medical and ethical issues in placement / Floyd Angus, Robert Burakoff
  • Permanent loss of consciousness : expert opinion and community standards / Fred Plum
  • United States Supreme Court : Cruzan, by her parents and co-guardians / Cruzan et ux. v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, et al.
  • The Wendland case, withdrawing life support from incompetent patients who are not terminally ill / Bernard Lo ... [et al.]
  • Diagnosing the permanent vegetative state / Ronald Cranford
  • pt. 2. Florida controversies
  • Introduction
  • Florida law (State statute) FL 765 : Healthcare advance directives
  • Court of Appeals of Florida, Second District , Thomas E. Corbett v. the Honorable Joseph P. D'Alessandro
  • In re : the guardianship of Theresa Schiavo, an incapacitated person / Richard L. Pearse Jr.
  • Florida bishops urge safer course for Terri Schiavo / Catholic Bishops of Florida 2003
  • Continued concerns for Terri Schiavo / Catholic Bishops of Florida 2005
  • A report to Governor Jeb Bush and the 6th Judicial Circuit in the matter of Theresa Marie Schiavo / Jay Wolfson
  • Guardian ad litem's report / Jeb Bush
  • The law passed by the Florida legislature (In relation to the Schiavo case) Bill No. HB 35-E
  • Supreme Court of Florida, Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida, et al., appellants, v. Michael Schiavo, guardian of Theresa Schiavo, Appellee
  • pt. 3. Federal controversies
  • Introduction
  • Congressional statements and actions related to the Schiavo case
  • For the relief of the parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo, S. 686
  • President George W. Bush's statement on S. 686, allowing federal courts to hear claim of Terri Schiavo
  • United States District Court, Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo incapacitated ex rel., Robert Schindler and Mary Schindler, her parents and next friends vs. Michael Schiavo, Judge George W. Greer and the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Inc.
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo, incapacitated ex rel, Robert Schindler and Mary Schindler, her parents and next friends, plaintiff-appellant, versus Michael Schiavo, as guardian of the person of T
  • The time has come to let Terri Schiavo die / Arthur L. Caplan
  • Affidavit / William Polk Cheshire
  • United States Supreme Court : order in pending case 04a825 Schiavo, Ex Rel. Schindler v. Schiavo, Michael, et al.
  • Attorney shares experience, pain, in Michael Schiavo's defense / Jon B. Eisenberg
  • pt. 4. Catholic controversies
  • Introduction
  • Feeding and hydrating the permanently unconscious and other vulnerable persons / William E. May ... [et al.]
  • An interim pastoral statement of artificial nutrition and hydration / Bishops of Texas, Texas Conference of Catholic Health Facilities
  • Nutrition and hydration : moral considerations / Catholic Bishops of Pennsylvania
  • Care of PVS patients : Catholic opinion in the United States / Kevin O'Rourke, Patrick Norris
  • Reverence for human life / James McCartney
  • To the participants in the International Congress on "Life-sustaining treatments and vegetative state : scientific advances and ethical dilemmas" / Pope John Paul II
  • Implications of the Papal allocution on feeding tubes / Thomas A. Shannon, James J. Walter
  • The Pope on PVS : does JPII's statement make the grade? / John F. Tuohey
  • On the death of Terri Schiavo / Edward J. Furton
  • pt. 5. The aftermath
  • Introduction
  • Our shining knights to the rescue / Norman L. Cantor
  • The legacy of the Schiavo case / Thomas A. Shannon
  • "Culture of life" politics at the bedside, the case of Terri Schiavo / George J. Annas
  • After Terri Schiavo : why the disability rights movement spoke out, why some of us worried, and where do we go from here? / Mary Johnson
  • Terri Schiavo, a tragedy compounded / Timothy E. Quill
  • Report of autopsy / John R. Thogmartin
  • Onward, moderate Christian soldiers / John C. Danforth
  • At Schiavo's hospice, a return to routine / Ceci Connolly
  • Case timeline

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After the Nancy Cruzan case was decided by the Supreme Court in 1990, and ultimately resolved by the Courts of the State of Missouri, the decision to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging nutrition and hydration appeared to many to be as noncontroversial as decisions to refuse respirators or dialysis. Even the Catholic Church held that, although there should be a presumption in favor of providing nutrition and hydration, the patient or the patient's surrogate could overrule this presumption, if either believed the treatment was disproportionate or burdensome. The Schiavo case changed all that. Although the decision to remove Terri Schiavo's nutrition and hydration was made by her husband - her legal surrogate - based on his wife's belief that such treatment was disproportionate, Schiavo's immediate family protested so much that the case took years to resolve. It eventually involved all branches of government at both the state and federal levels. The ethical dilemmas that such cases pose continue to stir great controversy. This in-depth examination of these dilemmas provides information and documentation from many perspectives. The editors have included a foreword by Dr. Jay Wolfson, Terri Schiavo's court-appointed guardian ad litem, as well as Dr. Wolfson's report to Gov. Jeb Bush on the case and Gov. Bush's reply; public statements by President George Bush and Senators David Weldon, Rick Santorum, Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, and Barney Frank; statements by the pope and other representatives of the Catholic Church on this issue; plus much medical and legal background material on both precedents to the Schiavo case and its aftermath, including the results of the autopsy report. For anyone wishing an in-depth understanding of these complex ethical issues, issues many of us will have to confront in our own families, this volume is indispensable.

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