Providers of pastoral healthcare frequently ask hospital ethics committees how to deal with the dying patients of various faiths. Apart from the responsibility to the individuals involved and their religious traditions, there are implications for developing HMO's to develop the proper approaches to sensitive questions.
This book is the result of a conference held at the Creighton University Center for Health Policy among representatives of several religious traditions: the Omaha and Winnebago tribes, Zen Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, the Nation of Islam, Hindus, the Plains Indians and...