Index - C

California, 79

Callahan, Daniel, 26

Campo, Theresa Ann, 43

Cancer, 127-128, 138, 142t, 143t

CARE (Ryan White Comprehensive Aids Resources Emergency) Act, 127, 130t-131t, 132t-133t

Causes of death
     age and, 21, 23t-24t, 137t-138t
     among elderly, 135-139
     infant mortality, 41-42, 46t-47t
     ranking of leading causes of death, 22t

Center to Improve Care of the Dying (CICD), 86-87

Cerebrovascular disease, 138-139, 144t-145t

CHD (coronary heart disease), 135-137, 139t-141t

Children
     anencephalic infants, 43, 48(t 5.5)
     birth defects, 42-47
     Birth Defects Prevention Act, 45
     Christian Science and medical treatment, 55
     Down's syndrome, 44-45
     infant mortality, 41-42, 42t-43t, 44t, 45t, 46t-47t
     low birthweight infants, 47, 49t-50t, 51t-53t, 54t
     medical decisions regarding infants, 48-50, 54
     neural tube defects (NTDs), 43-44
     premature infants, 47-48, 49t-50t
     spina bifida, 44, 48(t5.6)
     treatment of critically ill, 48-51, 54-56

China, 38-39

Choice in Dying (CID), 57, 79

Christian Science, 14, 55

Christianity
     ethics, 13-14
     premature burial, 2, 3f
     suicide, 60

Chronic disease, 144, 153

CICD (Center to Improve Care of the Dying), 86-87

CID (Choice in Dying), 57, 79

Classical period, 1-2

Clear and convincing evidence standard, 107-109

Commission of Inquiry into the Medical Practice Concerning Euthanasia, 76-77

Committee on Care at the End of Life, Institute of Medicine, 90, 99, 118-119

Communicating with the dead, 3

"Competent Care for the Dying Instead of Physician-Assisted Suicide" (Foley), 75

Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, 36

Consumer Price Index (CPI), 115, 118t

Controlled Substances Act, 73-74

Coronary heart disease (CHD), 135-137, 139t-141t

Costs
     AIDS, health care for patients with, 126-127
     Alzheimer's disease, 128
     birth defects, care of children with, 45-47
     cancer patients, health care for, 127-128
     CARE (Ryan White Comprehensive Aids Resources Emergency) Act, 127, 130t-131t, 132t-133t
     comparison of hospital, skilled nursing facility, and hospice Medicare charges, 123(t 9.6)
     consumer price index for health care components, 118t
     end-of-life care, 118-119, 128-129
     federal spending on AIDS, 128t-129t
     health care as percent of GDP, 115, 116t
     home health care, 121, 123-124
     Medicaid, 118
     Medicaid hospice benefits, 121
     Medicaid payments, by type of service, 123(t 9.8)
     Medicaid recipients and vendor payment by eligibility basis and race/ethnicity, 122t
     Medicare, 115, 117-118
     Medicare benefit payments by type of service, 123(t 9.7)
     Medicare enrollees and expenditures by type of service, 120t-121t
     Medicare home health care spending, 125(t 9.11)
     nation's health dollar, 119f
     nursing home care, 125
     terminally ill patients, 125-128

Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, AMA, 17, 37

Court cases
     Barber v. Superior Court of the State of California, 105
     Brophy v. New England Sinai Hospital, Inc., 105-106
     Cruzan, by Cruzan v. Harmon, 109-110
     Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, 110-111
     In re Quinlan, 101-102, 103, 107
     In the Matter of Beverly Requena, 106
     In the Matter of Claire C. Conroy, 104-105
     In the Matter of Philip K. Eichner, on Behalf of Joseph C. Fox, 107-108
     In the Matter of Westchester County Medical Center, on Behalf of Mary O'Connor, 108-109
     Satz v. Perlmutter, 103-104
     Soper, as Director of Newark Developmental Center et al. v. Dorothy Storar, 103
     Superintendent of Belchertown State School et al. v. Joseph Saikewicz, 102-103
     Washington v. Glucksberg, 112

Cruzan, by Cruzan v. Harmon, 109-110

Cruzan, Nancy, 109-111

Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, 110-111

Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America (Smith), 75