Chapter 1 Why do Unresponsive Patients Still Matter?

Chapter 2 Are We Morally Obliged to Feed PVS Patients Till Natural Death?

Chapter 3 Caring for Persons in the “Persistent Vegetative State” and Pope John Paul II’s March 20 2004 Address “On Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State”

Chapter 4 Food and Fluids: Human Law, Human Rights and Human Interests

Chapter 5 Quality of Life and Assisted Nutrition

Chapter 6 Towards Ethical Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

Chapter 7 Understanding the Ethics of Artificially Providing Food and Water

Chapter 8 The Ethics of Pope John Paul’s Allocution on Care of the PVS Patient: A Response to J.L.A. Garcia

Chapter 9 Reflections on the Papal Allocution Concerning Care For PVS Patients

Chapter 10 The Papal Allocution Concerning Care for PVS Patients: A Reply to Fr. O’Rourke

Chapter 11 Response to Patrick Lee

Chapter 12 The Morality of Tube Feeding PVS Patients: A Critique of the View of Kevin O’Rourke, O.P.