Healthcare Funding and Christian Ethics

Healthcare Funding and Christian Ethics
Author: Stephen Duckett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2023-01-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1009260650

Healthcare has an impact on everyone, and healthcare funding decisions shape how and what healthcare is provided. In this book, Stephen Duckett outlines a Christian, biblically grounded, ethical basis for how decisions about healthcare funding and priority-setting ought to be made. Taking a cue from the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), Duckett articulates three ethical principles drawn from the story: compassion as a motivator; inclusivity, or social justice as to benefits; and responsible stewardship of the resources required to achieve the goals of treatment and prevention. These are principles, he argues, that should underpin a Christian ethic of healthcare funding. Duckett's book is a must for healthcare professionals and theologians struggling with moral questions about rationing in healthcare. It is also relevant to economists interested in the strengths and weaknesses of the application of their discipline to health policy.

Healthcare Funding and Christian Ethics

Healthcare Funding and Christian Ethics
Author: S. J. Duckett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Medical economics
ISBN: 9781009260688

Healthcare has an impact on everyone, and healthcare funding decisions shape how and what healthcare is provided. In this book, Stephen Duckett outlines a Christian, biblically grounded, ethical basis for how decisions about healthcare funding and priority-setting ought to be made. Taking a cue from the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), Duckett articulates three ethical principles drawn from the story: compassion as a motivator; inclusivity, or social justice as to benefits; and responsible stewardship of the resources required to achieve the goals of treatment and prevention. These are principles, he argues, that should underpin a Christian ethic of healthcare funding. Duckett's book is a must for healthcare professionals and theologians struggling with moral questions about rationing in healthcare. It is also relevant to economists interested in the strengths and weaknesses of the application of their discipline to health policy.

Healthcare Funding and Christian Ethics

Healthcare Funding and Christian Ethics
Author: Stephen Duckett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2023-01-31
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1009260669

A necessary book for healthcare professionals and theologians struggling with moral questions about rationing in healthcare. This book outlines a Christian ethical basis for how decisions about health care funding and priority-setting ought to be made.

Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics

Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
Author: Albino Barrera
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1009384678

We seek to be both loving and just. However, what do we do when love and justice present us with incompatible obligations? Can one be excessively just? Should one bend rules or even break the law for the sake of compassion? Alternatively, should one simply follow rules? Unjust beneficence or uncaring justice - which is the less problematic moral choice? Moral dilemmas arise when a person can satisfy a moral obligation only by violating another moral duty. These quandaries are also called moral tragedies because despite their good intentions and best effort, people still end up being blameworthy. Conflicting demands of compassion and justice are among the most vexing problems of social philosophy, moral theology, and public policy. They often have life-and-death consequences for millions. In this book, Albino Barrera examines how and why compassion-justice conflicts arise to begin with, and what we can do to reconcile their competing claims.

Family and Christian Ethics

Family and Christian Ethics
Author: Petruschka Schaafsma
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2023-07-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1009324624

In this book, Petruschka Schaafsma offers an innovative appraisal of family. Eschewing the framework of worry and renewal that currently dominates family studies, she instead explores the topic through the concepts of 'givenness' and 'dependence'. 'Givenness' highlights the fact that family is not chosen; 'dependence' refers to being intimately included in each other's identities and lives. Both experiences are challenging, especially in a contemporary context, where independence and freedom to shape one's own life have become accepted ideals. Schaafsma shows the impasses to which these ideals lead in several disciplines – theology, philosophy, sociology, social anthropology and care ethics. She moves constructively beyond them by tapping literary, artistic and biblical sources for their insights on family. Grounded in a theological approach to family as 'mystery' rather than 'problem', she develops an understanding of the current controversial character of family that accounts for both its ordinary and transcendent character.

Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics

Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics
Author: Robin Gill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2024-05-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1009476742

Examining contemporary secular culture and the New Testament, this study explores the contradictions of the concept of human perfection.

The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics

The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics
Author: Robert B. Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0521888794

The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics provides the first global history of medical ethics.

New Dictionary of Christian Ethics & Pastoral Theology

New Dictionary of Christian Ethics & Pastoral Theology
Author: David J. Atkinson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 1054
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 083089618X

Encompassing a wide range of topics--from the timely (health care and business ethics) to the traditional (atonement, suffering and the kingdom of God)—this work features an easy-to-use reference system and eighteen articles that introduce readers to key themes in moral, pastoral and practical theology. Edited by David J. Atkinson and David F. Field with consulting editors Arthur Holmes and Oliver O'Donovan.

The Anticipatory Corpse

The Anticipatory Corpse
Author: Jeffrey P. Bishop
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2011-09-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0268075859

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine and in our social and political views of death, as shaped by our scientific successes and ongoing debates about euthanasia and the “right to die”—or to live. The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, informed by Foucault’s genealogy of medicine and power as well as by a thorough grasp of current medical practices and medical ethics, argues that a view of people as machines in motion—people as, in effect, temporarily animated corpses with interchangeable parts—has become epistemologically normative for medicine. The dead body is subtly anticipated in our practices of exercising control over the suffering person, whether through technological mastery in the intensive care unit or through the impersonal, quasi-scientific assessments of psychological and spiritual “medicine.” The result is a kind of nihilistic attitude toward the dying, and troubling contradictions and absurdities in our practices. Wide-ranging in its examples, from organ donation rules in the United States, to ICU medicine, to “spiritual surveys,” to presidential bioethics commissions attempting to define death, and to high-profile cases such as Terri Schiavo’s, The Anticipatory Corpse explores the historical, political, and philosophical underpinnings of our care of the dying and, finally, the possibilities of change. This book is a ground-breaking work in bioethics. It will provoke thought and argument for all those engaged in medicine, philosophy, theology, and health policy.

Christian Ethics

Christian Ethics
Author: Laura A. Stivers
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608331091

Rev. ed. of: Christian ethics / Robert L. Stivers et al.