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  • Infinite expectations and finite resources: A Roman Catholic perspective on setting limits to critical care, or, can Roman Catholic moral theology offer more than secular morality provides? / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
  • Facing the challenges of high-technology medicine: taking the tradition seriously / Mark J. Cherry
  • Consensus statement / Working group on Roman Catholic approaches to determining appropriate critical care
  • Respect for human life in the world of intensive care units: secular and reform Jewish reflections on the Roman Catholic view / Michael A. Rie
  • What is appropriate intensive care? A Roman Catholic perspective / Paulina Taboada
  • Limiting access to health care: a traditional Roman Catholic analysis / Joseph Boyle
  • Toward a personalistic ethics of limiting access to medical treatment : philosophical and Catholic positions / Josef Seifert
  • Equal care as the best of care: a personalist approach / Paul T. Schotsmans
  • Quality of life and human dignity: meaning and limits of prolongation of life / Ludger Honnefelder
  • Beyond the question of limits: institutional guidelines for the appropriate use of critical care / George Khushf
  • Developing the doctrine of distributive justice: methods of distribution, redistribution, and the role of time in allocating intensive care resources / M. Cathleen Kaveny
  • Creating critical care resources: implications for distributive justice / Kevin W. Wildes, S.J.
  • Allocation of scarce medical resources to critical care: a perspective from the Jewish Canonical tradition / Teodoro Forcht Dagi
  • The current medical crises of resources: some Orthodox Christian reflections / Very Reverend Edward Hughes
  • The allocation of medical services: the problem from a Protestant perspective / Dietrich Rössler
  • Between secular reason and the spirit of Christianity: Catholic approaches to limiting access to scarce medical resources / Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes
  • Catholicizing health / James W. Heisig, S. V.D.
  • Roman Catholic theology and the allocation of resources to critical care: the boundaries of faith and reason / Mary Ann Gardell Cutter