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| Introduction: Christian Ethics and the Case Method | |
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| Family | |
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| Case: Rigor and Responsibility | |
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| A professional couple active in church and community considers the implications of building a vacation cabin in a poor and environmentally degraded world. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Case: What God Has Joined | |
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| Friends and professional counselors seek to assist a couple with marital problems stemming from child abuse, heavy drinking, physical violence, and differing reactions to sexual intimacy. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Violence/Nonviolence | |
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| Case: A Life for a Life? | |
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| A Florida state legislator is undecided about a bill to abolish the death penalty, wondering whether the problems with the death penalty system can be effectively reformed. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Case: Vietnam's Legacies | |
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| A Vietnam veteran puzzles over what to say to his grandson about draft registration and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Poverty | |
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| Case: Homelessness: The How and Why of Caring | |
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| A social worker who assists the homeless is undecided about her city's proposed anti-panhandling legislation and contemplates what approaches would best address homelessness. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Case: Who Cares about Haiti Anyway? | |
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| An analysis of foreign aid and intervention in the context of the international community s failure to deliver the aid it promised Haiti after the devastating earthquake of 2010. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| The Environment | |
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| Case: Oil and the Caribou People | |
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| A teacher visits a Native American clan gathering in Northeastern Alaska where options are being considered to protect the Porcupine Caribou Herd threatened by oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Case: Whose Water? | |
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| A rural county commissioner is faced with the need to find millions to build an up-to-date county water plant, a bottling company willing to foot the cost in return for access to water reserves, and environmentalists and business owners opposing the bottling plant. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Business | |
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| Case: Sustaining Dover | |
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| A city council representative and small business owner grapples with the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development when Walmart asks for a zoning change so that it can construct a Supercenter in the City of Dover. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Case: Executive Pay: Reward or Excess? | |
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| A corporate board of directors struggles with approving annual compensation packages for the executive team when the company�s profits suffer due to the weakened economy and when the wages of other employees are frozen. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Health | |
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| Case: How Many Children? | |
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| A community college class on bioethics discusses the Octomom case, in which a woman gave birth to octuplets following embryo transfer, thus bringing the number of her children to fourteen. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Case: Keeping the Doors Open | |
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| A newly hired public hospital CEO discovers a huge operating deficit and attempts to decide whose interests take priority in choosing what should be cut. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Sexuality | |
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| Case: What Makes a Marriage? | |
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| Middle-aged siblings gathered for their parents' anniversary discuss premarital sex in their own and their children s lives. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Case: Mixed Blessing? | |
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| Faced with a request by two recent graduates, administrators of a church-related college debate the wisdom of allowing the blessing of same-sex unions on campus. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Life and Death | |
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| Case: A Matter of Life or Death | |
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| An eighteen-year-old single woman must come to a decision during her first year of college about an unwanted pregnancy in the early stages of gestation. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Case: Death, Duty, and Dignity | |
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| A seminary professor invited to give a public address on Care for the Dying wrestles with what to say ethically about an upcoming state referendum that would legalize physician-assisted death. | |
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| Commentary | |
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| Appendix: Teaching Ethics by the Case Method | |
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| List of Authors and Contributors | |