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Title: The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation
Author: Austin O'Malley
Release Date: May 22, 2013 [eBook #42764]
Language: English
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THE ETHICS
OF
MEDICAL HOMICIDE
AND
MUTILATION
BY
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D.
NEW YORK
THE DEVIN-ADAIR COMPANY
1922
Nihil obstat
ARTHUR J. SCANLAN, S.T.D.
Censor Librorum
Imprimatur
✠ JOHN CARDINAL FARLEY
Archbishop of New York
Copyright, 1919, by
The Devin-Adair Company
——
All Rights Reserved by
The Devin-Adair Company
Third Printing
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| GENERAL PRINCIPLES CONCERNING SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE | |
| PAGE | |
|
There is a Supreme Being who alone is master of life. The Natural Law. The nature and determinants of morality. Probabilism. Permissive suicide. Suicide is illicit. Conscience. Homicide, direct and indirect. Self-defence. Formal and material aggressors. Legalized homicide. Bibliography |
1-22 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| GENERAL PRINCIPLES CONCERNING MUTILATION | |
|
Mutilation. Canonical irregularity. Self-mutilation. The double effect in morality. Direct and indirect mutilation. The State and mutilation. The dominion of the State |
23-32 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| WHEN DOES HUMAN LIFE BEGIN? | |
|
Ancient and modern opinions. The fetus is animated at the moment of conception. The single cell as the primal life-organ. Cell growth and division. Germ cells. The development of the embryo. Fetal viability. Theories of development. The Aristotelian and Thomistic opinions. The formal principle. A soul exists. The primordial cell is a sufficient organ for the soul. Metabolism in the cell. Cell motion. Animal heat and energy. Life in separated tissues. The soul in monsters |
33-82 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| WHEN DOES HUMAN LIFE END? | |
|
The heart and life. Resuscitation after apparent death. The last sacraments in apparent death. Suspended animation. The living fetus in the womb of a dying or dead mother. Methods of resuscitation. Signs of death |
83-91 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| ABORTION | |
|
Abortion and miscarriage. Causes of abortion, fetal, maternal and paternal. Surgical operations and abortion. The debitum in pregnancy. Premature labor. Threatened, inevitable, and incomplete abortions. Treatment. The use of the tampon. Precautions against abortion. Therapeutic abortion. Methods of inducing abortion. Artificial abortion of an inviable fetus is never licit. Decrees of the church concerning abortion. The civil law on abortion |
92-123 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| ECTOPIC GESTATION | |
|
Ectopic gestation or extrauterine pregnancy. Anatomy of the uterus and its adnexa. Place of fecundation. The abnormal uterus. Tubal rupture and tubal abortion. Diagnosis. Decrees of the church on ectopic gestation. Removal of an inviable ectopic fetus except in present peril of life is illicit |
124-132 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| CESAREAN DELIVERY | |
|
Indications for cesarean delivery. Abnormal pelves. Symphyseotomy. Varieties of cesarean delivery. Morality. Amputation of the uterus after cesarean delivery. Precautionary sterilization of a cesarean case is illicit |
133-142 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| PLACENTA PRAEVIA AND ABRUPTIO PLACENTAE | |
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Nature and effects of placenta praevia. Treatment. Morality and methods of treatment. Abruptio placentae. Morality of fetal removal |
143-146 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| ABDOMINAL TUMORS IN PREGNANCY | |
|
Tumors blocking parturition. Fibroids or myomata. |