Health Care and Christian Ethics

Name: Health Care and Christian Ethics
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ISBN: 9780521857239

ISBN-10: 0521857236

ISBN-13: 9780521857239

Edition: 2006

Authors: Robin Gill, Robin Gill, Stephen R. L. Clark, Stanley Hauerwas, Robin W. Lovin

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How can Christian ethics make a significant contribution to health care ethics in today's Western, pluralistic society? Robin Gill examines the 'moral gaps' in secular accounts of health care ethics and the tensions within specifically theological accounts. He explores the healing stories in the Synoptic Gospels, identifying four core virtues present within them - compassion, care, faith and humility - that might bring greater depth to a purely secular interpretation of health care ethics. Each of these virtues is examined in turn, using a range of topical issues including health care rationing, genetics, HIV/AIDS, withholding/withdrawing nutrition from PVS patients, and the empirical…

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List price: $95.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/16/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Series editor's preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Moral gaps in secular health care ethics



Tensions in public theology



Healing in the Synoptic Gospels



Compassion in health care ethics



Care in health care ethics



Faith in health care ethics



Humility in health care ethics


Conclusion


Bibliography of works cited


Index