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On Moral Medicine Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics

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ISBN-10: 0802842496

ISBN-13: 9780802842497

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Stephen E. Lammers, Allen Verhey

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Collecting a wide range of contemporary and classical essays dealing with medical ethics, this huge volume is the finest resource available for engaging the pressing problems posed by medical advances.
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Book details

List price: $52.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1021
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.344
Language: English

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Religion and Medicine
For Doctors and Nurses
Honor the Physician
The Will to Be Healthy
The Secularization of American Medicine
Religion and Moral Meaning in Bioethics
Illness, the Problem of Evil, and the Analogical Structure of Healing: On the Difference Christianity Makes in Bioethics
Theology and Medical Ethics
Theology Confronts Technology and the Life Sciences
Preface to The Patient as Person
Can Theology Have a Role in "Public" Bioethical Discourse?
Theology and Bioethics
Salvation and Health: Why Medicine Needs the Church
Bio-ethics: Some Challenges from a Liberation Perspective
Feminist Theology and Bioethics
The Profession and its Integrity
The Hippocratic Oath
The Hippocratic Oath Insofar as a Christian May Swear It
The Doctor's Oath - and a Christian Swearing It
From "Medical Ethics: Professional or Universal?"
Code and Covenant or Philanthropy and Contract?
AIDS and the Professions of Healing: A Brief Inquiry
The Doctor
The Nurse's Profession
Life and its Sanctity
Genesis 2:4b-7
Respect for Life
The Transcendence of God and the Value of Human Life
Toward Freedom from Value
Alien Dignity: The Legacy of Helmut Thielicke for Bioethics
Death and its (In)Dignity
Psalm 88
Lament for a Son
The Sacral Power of Death in Contemporary Experience
The Indignity of "Death with Dignity"
Keeping Body and Soul Together
Health and Healing
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Sickness and Illusion
A Declaration of Faith and Health
In Search of Health
The WHO Definition of "Health"
Why Do We Want to Be Healthy? Medicine, Autonomous Individualism, and the Community of Faith
Nature and its Mastery
Ode on a Plastic Stapes
The Abolition of Man
Technological Devices in Medical Care
Science: Limits and Prohibitions
"Playing God" and Invoking a Perspective
The Art of Technology Assessment
Bioethics, the Body, and the Legacy of Bacon
Care of Patients and Their Suffering
Surgical Ward
School of Suffering
AIDS and the Church
Stories and Suffering
Patient Suffering and the Anointing of the Sick
Practicing Patience: How Christians Should be Sick
Respect for Persons and their Agency
Four Indicators of Humanhood - The Enquiry Matures
Again, Who Is a Person?
Must a Patient Be a Person to Be a Patient? Or, My Uncle Charlie Is Not Much of a Person but He Is Still My Uncle Charlie
Terra es animata: On Having a Life
"Embodiment" and Moral Critique: A Christian Social Perspective
Man as Patient
Agency and an Interactional Model of Society
The Basis of Medicine and Religion: Respect for Persons
Contraception
Of Human Life (Humarie Vitae)
The Contraceptive Revolution and the Human Condition
"Human Life" and Human Love
Parents and Children
Technological Reproduction
Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation
Whose Bodies? Which Selves? Appeals to Embodiment in Assessments of Reproductive Technology
In a Glass Darkly
Ethical Implications of In Vitro Fertilization
The Ethical Challenge of the New Reproductive Technology
The Gestated and Sold
Genetic Control
Mother and Father
Moral and Religious Implications of Genetic Control
The Problem of Genetic Manipulation
From Clinic to Congregation: Religious Communities and Genetic Medicine
Genetics: The British Conversation and a Christian Response
The Search for Shalom
Ethical Standards for Genetic Intervention
Abortion
The Catholic Legacy and Abortion: A Debate
Respect for Life in the Womb
A Protestant Ethical Approach
The Fetus as Parasite and Mushroom
A Feminist-Liberation View of Abortion
Abortion and the Sexual Agenda: A Case for Pro-Life Feminism
Liberation, Abortion, and Responsibility
Choosing Death and Letting Die
Catholic Spirituality and Medical Interventions in Dying
"Whose Life Is It Anyway?" Ours, That's Whose!
Euthanasia
Euthanasia and Christian Vision
Covenantal Ethics and Care for the Dying
Reflection
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Flight from Compassion
Rational Suicide and Reasons for Living
Care of Neonates
Medicine and the Birth of Defective Children: Approaches of the Ancient World
Mongolism, Parental Desires, and the Right to Life
The Death of Infant Doe: Jesus and the Neonates
The Case of Baby Rena
Tragedies and Medical Choices: The Lakeburg Twins
Justice and Equal Treatment
Our Religious Traditions and the Treatment of Infants
The Retarded
Biblical Faith and the Loss of Children
The Physician-Patient Relationship: Advice and Consent
Exousia: Healing with Authority in the Christian Tradition
Honor Thy Patient
Thorn-in-the-Flesh Decision Making: A Christian Overview of the Ethics of Treatment
The Truthfulness of a Physician
The Physician-Patient Relationship
Teacher
Empowerment in the Clinical Setting
Psychiatric Care: Professional Commitments and Societal Responsibilities
Some Contributions of Religion to Mental Health
Psychology as Faith
Between the Priestly Doctor and the Myth of Mental Illness
Crazy in the Streets
Afflicting the Afflicted: Total Institutions
Welcoming Unexpected Guests to the Banquet
Secrets of the Couch and the Grave: The Anne Sexton Case
Pine Rest Christian Hospital Mission Statement
Research and Experimentation
Vivisection
The Necessity, Promise, and Dangers of Human Experimentation
Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Human Subjects
Ethical Considerations in Human Experimentation: Experimentation Involving Children
The Use of Zairian Children in HIV Vaccine Experimentation
Major Conclusions and Recommendations from the Final Report of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel
The Inhuman Use of Human Beings
Allocation and Distribution
"The Corporate Physician's Oath"
Social Justice and Equal Access to Health Care
Reform and Rationing: Reflections on Health Care in Light of Catholic Social Teaching
Sanctity and Scarcity: The Makings of Tragedy
The Ethical Legitimacy of Excluding the Elderly When Medical Resources Are Limited
A Pathology of Medical Ethics: Economic Medical Rationing in a Morally Incoherent Society
Sick of Being Poor