Faith and Health: Religion, Science, and Public Policy (P369/Mrc)

Name: Faith and Health: Religion, Science, and Public Policy (P369/Mrc)
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ISBN: 9780881460858

ISBN-10: 0881460850

ISBN-13: 9780881460858

Edition: 2008

Authors: Paul D. Simmons

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Faith and Health examines controversial issues in medical ethics such as embryo stem cell research, the face transplant, cyborgs and the human and physician assisted suicide. Those struggling with such confusing and controversial subjects will appreciate the insights from ethics, theology, and law the author brings together. Here is guidance for personal or social responses to questions in medicine that affect us all.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Publication date: 1/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 293
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

List of Abbreviations	p. iiiv
Introduction	p. 1
Human Suffering and the Medical Mandate	p. 19
False Hope: Faith and Healing in the ICU	p. 44
Health Care and the Future: Faith Perspectives and Healthcare Reform	p. 67
Aging as an Assault on Human Dignity: Spirituality and End-of-life Decision-making	p. 92
Religion, Politics, and a Right to Die	p. 115
Faith and the Future of Physician-assisted Suicide	p. 133
Ethics and the Artificial Heart: Cyborgs and the Human Future	p. 156
Ethics and CTA: Might We Have Your Face?	p. 176
Religion, Ethics, and the Great Embryo Stem Cell Debate	p. 197
Faith, Ethics, and Abortion: Thinking about the Unthinkable	p. 214
Medicine and the Demonic: Should Psychiatrists Engage in Exorcisms?	p. 235
Acknowledgments	p. 261
Appendices
Authority in the ICU	p. 263
AMA: Principles of Medical Ethics	p. 264
The Hippocratic Oath	p. 266
The Nuremberg Code	p. 267
Contraception and IVF: The Vatican's Response	p. 269
Summary of Vacco v. Quill.	p. 272
Time Line in the Terri Schiavo Case	p. 274
Bibliography	p. 277
Index	p. 289
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