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Helping and healing : religious commitment in health care /
Helping and Healing looks at the ways a religious perspective shapes the healing relationship and the ethics of that relationship. Pellegrino and Thomasma seek to clarify the role of religious belief in health care by providing a moral basis for such commitment as well as a balancing role for reason...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
©1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The aim of this book ; Crucial definitions ; A betrayal of the promise of medicine ; Secular and religious perspectives ; Ignoring fundamental values
- 1. Health and illness : Source of meaning ; Becoming ill or disabled ; Job as metaphor ; A contemporary structure of illness ; The wounded healer ; Why is it I who must suffer?
- 2. Caring and curing : The relation of caring and curing ; What does it mean to care? ; The moment of clinical truth ; Refurbishing the ideal of a profession ; Coping in trust
- 3. Religion and the healing transaction : Contributions to the healing transaction ; Suffering and healing
- 4. The principle of vulnerability : Vulnerability as a principle: general ethics ; Vulnerability as a principle: health care ethics ; The missing perspective
- 5. Religion and the principles of medical ethics : Christocentric health care ethics ; The religious perspective ; The limitations of contemporary biomedical ethics ; The content ; Motivation ; Ordering principle ; Medicine's contribution to religious ethics
- 6. Medicine as a calling : The tradition and its mutations ; Genesis of the mutations ; The internal morality of the professions ; Vocation and career ; The moral drift and moral philosophy
- 7. A community of healing : Is healing an option? ; The challenges ; The justifications ; Secular and "sacred" healing ; Healing as prophetic ; The community of healers ; Duties of the community of healers
- 8. Love and justice in the health ministry: from profession to vocation, philosophical perspectives : The nature of illness and healing ; The root principles of philosophical medical ethics
- 9. Love and justice in the health ministry: from profession to vocation, theological perspectives : The theological perspective ; Christocentric health care ethics: from profession to vocation ; The call of the whole church to the healing ministry.