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On moral medicine : theological perspectives on medical ethics / edited by M. Therese Lysaught & Jospeh J. Kotva Jr. with Stephen E. Lammers & Allen Verhey.

In print for more than two decades, On Moral Medicine remains the definitive anthology for Christian theological reflection on medical ethics. This third edition updates and expands the earlier awardwinning volumes, providing classrooms and individuals alike with one of the finest available resource...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lysaught, M. Therese (Editor ), Kotva, Joseph J. (Editor ), Lammers, Stephen E. (Editor ), Verhey, Allen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Grand Rapids : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2012.
Edición:3rd edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; I: Method; Chapter One: Religion and Medicine; 1. The Secularization of American Medicine; 2. A New Synthesis: Alternative Medicine's Challenge to Mainstream Medicine and Traditional Christianity; 3. Illness, the Problem of Evil, and the Analogical Structure of Healing: On the Difference Christianity Makes in Bioethics; 4. Money and the Medical Profession; 5. Conceptualizing "Religion": How Language Shapes and Constrains Knowledge in the Study of Religion and Health.
  • 6. Salvation and Health: Why Medicine Needs the ChurchChapter Two: Theology and Medical Ethics; 7. Theology Confronts Technology and the Life Sciences; 8. Theologians and Bioethics: Some History and a Proposal; 9. European-American Ethos and Principlism: An African-American Challenge; 10. Bioethics in a Liberationist Key; 11. Bioethics and Religion: Some Unscientific Footnotes; 12. The Bible and Bioethics: Some Problems and a Proposal; II: Christianity and the Social Practice of Health Care; Chapter Three: Christianity and the Social Responsibility of Health Care.
  • 13. General Introduction and Part One of Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, Fourth Edition14. The Corporate Physician's Oath; 15. Sick of Being Poor; 16. The Bible and Christian Convictions; 17. The Christian and Anabaptist Legacy in Healthcare; 18. Catholic Social Teaching and the Allocation of Healthcare; 19. Health, Healing, and Social Justice: Insights from Liberation Theology; 20. A Body without Borders; Chapter Four: The Christian Social Practice of Health Care.
  • 21. Listening to Women of Color with Breast Cancer: Theological and Ethical Insights for U.S. Healthcare and "Keeping It Real" While Staying Out of the "Loony Bin": Social Ethics for Healthcare Systems22. Starting a Free Clinic in a Rural Area: People in a Small Kentucky Town Pool Their Talents to Solve the Access Problem; 23. Parish Nursing: A New Specialty; 24. Austin Heights and AIDS; 25. Reform and Rationing: Reflections on Health Care in Light of Catholic Social Teaching; 26. A Summary of Catholic Principles for Health-Care Justice; III: Patients and Professionals.
  • Chapter Five: The Professions27. Honor the Physician; 28. The Hippocratic Oath; 29. The Hippocratic Oath Insofar as a Christian May Swear It; 30. The Doctor's Oath
  • and a Christian Swearing It; 31. The Physician's Covenant; 32. The Nurse's Profession; 33. A Christian Vision of Nursing and Persons; 34. Hospital Chaplaincy as Agapeic Intervention; 35. Spiritual Morphine: The Delusory Hope of Dying on Your Own Terms; 36. The Christian Pastor's Role in Medical Ethics: In the Pew and at the Bedside: Joseph J. Kotva Jr.; Chapter Six: The Patient-Physician Relationship.