Charter For Health Care Workers: Table of Contents

• Preface/Introduction


• I. Ministers of Life
  • Genetic manipulation
  • Fertility control
  • Artificial procreation


• II. Life
  • Beginning of life and birth
  • The value of life: unity of body and soul
  • Indisposability and inviolability of life
  • Right to life
  • Prevention
  • Sickness
  • Diagnosis
  • Prenatal diagnosis
  • Therapy and rehabilitation
  • Analgesia and anesthesia
  • The informed consent of the patient
  • Research and experimentation
  • Donation and transplanting of organs
  • Dependency
  • Drugs
  • Alcoholism
  • Smoking
  • Psycho-pharmaceuticals
  • Psychology and psychotherapy
  • Pastoral care and the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick


• III. Death
  • Terminal illnesses
  • Death with dignity
  • The use of painkillers for the terminally ill
  • Telling the truth to a dying person
  • The moment of death
  • Religious assistance for the dying
  • The suppression of life
  • Abortion
  • Euthanasia


• IV. Endnotes