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  • Allocation in Health Care : Antecedent Conditions and Catholic Insights

    Creator:
    Hosford, Laura L.
    Abstract:
    This research was aimed at providing the foundation for changing standards of care in a critical care setting using Catholic concepts of respect for human dignity, subsidiarity, common good, and solidarity as a matter of social justice. I first unpacked the nature of ICU care and the inevitability of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Laura L. Hosford for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Ethics presented June 12, 2017. Title

  • Hospice nurses as "midwives to the dying" : guiding life's important journeys

    Creator:
    Cox, Jessica C.
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores the metaphor of hospice nurses as "midwives to the dying" by applying philosophical inquiry to the field of hospice. I focus on the history of the movements, their professional approaches to caregiving, and the core commitments of both the modern midwifery and hospice movements. Although focused on...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Metaphor, 4. 8 conversation-stoppers. Medical ethicist Edmund L. Erde contends that the phrase