CONTENTS

The Call to Care

Part I - Dimensions of Caring - 19

Chapter One: Health as the Will to Carry Out Our Life Story

• Introduction -Olsen - 21
• Freeman - "On Hearing the Story" - 27
• Weinberg - "The Laying on of Hands" - 29
• Barth - "The Will To Be Healthy" - 34
• Freeman - "On Nursing" - 45
• Tillich - "The Meaning of Health" - 46
• Nouwen - "Care and the Elderly" - 55

Chapter Two: Health, Wholeness, and Intervention

• Introduction - Olsen - 65
• Sirach - "Why Should the Physician be Honored?" - 71
• Auterman, Robinson - "Hygeia v. Asclepius" - 73
• Freeman - "After" - 84

Chapter Three: Health, Life, and Mortality

• Introduction - Olsen - 85
• Robinson - "Joining the Majority" - 88
• Freeman - "On Depression" - 115

Chapter Four: Caring, Meaning, and Courage

• Introduction - Olsen - 116
• Freeman - "Ten-Year-Old with Rheumatoid Arthritis" - 119
• Gaes - From My Book for Kids with Cansur - 120
• Freeman - "The Burden" - 127
• Frankl - From Man's Search for Meaning - 128
• Freeman - "Holocaust Exhibit and the Dance" - 152

Part II - Dilemmas of Caring - 153

Chapter Five: Respecting the Person

• Introduction - Olsen - 155
• Freeman - "Reflections on the Teaching of Bioethics" - 165
• Freeman - "Lecture on Bioethics" - 170
• Williams - "The Use of Force" - 171
• Freeman - "Restraints in the Nursing Home - 175
• ACOG - "Ethical Dimensions of Informed Consent" - 176
• Freeman - "Reflections on Informed Consent" - 186
• Freeman - "Another Look at Disclosure" - 190

Chapter Six: Who Gets Care?

• Introduction - Olsen - 196
• Luke - "The Good Samaritan" - 199
• Robinson - "Rose Brech" - 200
• Freeman - "Vision Quest" - 205

Chapter Seven: Caring Through Death

• Introduction - Olsen - 207
• Freeman - "Apocalypse" - 212
• Freeman - "Nancy Cruzan" - 213
• Callahan - "Pursuing a Peaceful Death" - 215
• Verhey - "Choosing Death: The Ethics of Assisted Suicide" - 229
• Meilaender - "Advance Medical Directives" - 238
• Freeman - "Another Elegy" - 244
• Interview: Sue Halbritter - "Moving In With Presence" - 245

Chapter Eight: Caring From the Beginning

• Introduction - Olsen - 263
• Ryan - "Erosion of the Rights of Pregnant Women" - 268
• Interview: Ann Wilson - "FAS: Thinking Through Options" - 274
• Whitmore - "Crossing the pro-life pro-choice divide" - 288
• Peters - "Genetic testing and abortion." - 293
• Freeman - "On Cloning" - 301

Part III - Directions in Caring - 303

Chapter Nine: How Then Shall We Live as Citizens?

• Introduction - Olsen - 305
• Auterman - "How Health Care Services Are Paid" - 311
• Freeman - "The Gymnast" - 314
• Interview: Jon Soderholm - "Red Ford/Red Porsche" - 316
• Dyer - "Patients, Not Costs, Come First" - 325
• Pellegrino - "Managed Care, An Ethical Reflection" - 330
• May - "Ethical Foundations of Health Care Reform" - 338
• Auterman - "Parish Nursing: The Church as Community" - 347

Chapter Ten: How Then Shall We Live as Persons?

• Introduction - Olsen - 352
• Auterman - "Making Health Care Choices" - 358
• Kreitzer - "Caring and Complementary Healing Practices" - 367
• Freeman - "Practical Wisdom" - 373
• Hill - "My Not-So-Near-Death Experience" - 377
• Robinson - From Kitchen Dance - 382
• Interview: Becky Nelson - "Caring Behaviors" - 408
• Freeman - "On Catheters and Caring" - 420

Chapter Eleven: How Then Shall We Live in the Face of Death?

• Introduction - Robinson - 422
• Tolstoy - From The Death of Ivan Ilyich - 427
• Freeman - "Hospital Reverie" - 482