The Catholic Tradition on the Due Use of Medical Remedies: The Charlie Gard Case

The widely publicized British case of Charlie Gard became an international cause célèbre when the treating physicians petitioned the British courts to prevent the parents from taking their dying child to America where a physician held out promise of an unproven experimental therapy. The case became...

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Authors: Paris, John J. (Author) ; Cummings, Brian M. (Author) ; Moreland, Michael P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. [2018]
In: Theological studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 79, Issue: 1, Pages: 165-181
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Catholic church / Therapy / Incurably ill person
IxTheo Classification:KDB Roman Catholic Church
NCH Medical ethics
NCJ Ethics of science
Further subjects:B Charlie Gard
B INVESTIGATIONAL therapies
B Francis, Pope, 1936-
B Catholic moral tradition
B GARD, Charlie
B experimental therapy
B Great Britain
B Pope Francis
B Medical Care United States
B parental authority
B medical decision-making
B Children
B LETHAL mutations
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