The Foundations Of Christian Bioethics
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Author | : Hugo Tristram Engelhardt |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Bioethics |
ISBN | : 9789026515576 |
For decades, Engelhardt has alluded to the ethics that binds moral friends. While his 'Foundations of Bioethics' explored the sparse ethics binding moral strangers, this long-awaited volume addresses the morality at the foundations of Christian bioethics. The volume opens with an analysis of the marginalization of Christian bioethics in the 1970s and the irremedial shortcomings of secular ethics in general. Drawing on the Christianity of the first millennium, Engelhardt provides the ontological and epistemological foundations for a Christian bioethics that can remedy the onesidedness of a secular bioethics and supply the bases for a Christian bioethics. The volume then addresses issues from abortion, third-party-assisted reproduction, and cloning, to withholding and withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Practices such as free and informed consent are relocated within a traditional Christian morality. Attention is also given to the allocation of scarce resources in health care, and to the challenge of maintaining the Christian identity of physicians, nurses, patients, and health care institutions in a culture that is now post-Christian.
Author | : H. Tristram Engelhardt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0195057368 |
This new, thoroughly recast Second Edition has been acclaimed as "the most important book written since the beginning of that strange project called bioethics" (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University). Its philosophical exploration of the foundations of secular bioethics has been substantially expanded. The book challenges the values of much of contemporary bioethics and health care policy by confronting their failure to secure the moral norms they seek to apply. The nature of health and disease, the definition of death, the morality of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, germline genetic engineering, triage decisions and distributive justice in health care are all addressed within an integrated reconsideration of bioethics as a whole. New material has been added regarding social justice, health care reform and environmental ethics. The very possibility and meaning of a secular bioethics are re-explored.
Author | : Ana Smith Iltis |
Publisher | : M & M Scrivener Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0980209498 |
At the Roots of Christian Bioethics explores Professor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.'s pursuit for the decisive ground of the meaning of human existence and knowledge of appropriate moral choice. Engelhardt has been the most influential, cogent, but critical voice within bioethics of the past several decades. The essays in this volume compass epistemological, methodological and topical contributions to bioethics, political theory, and Christian theology. Each explores Engelhardt's diagnosis of the contemporary social and cultural crisis, seeking to make sense of the decidedly post-Christian and often openly anti-Christian ethics that dominates public morality and politic policy. Each author investigates Engelhardt's personal and tireless enquiry to secure ultimate moral foundations as well as to recognize the full implications of the results of his investigations: that Christian bioethics does not originate in human reason but in the command of God.
Author | : David VanDrunen |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2009-10-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433521830 |
Just about everyone will face a difficult bioethics decision at some point. In this book a theologian, ethicist, and lawyer equips Christians to make such decisions based on biblical truth, wisdom, and virtue. Though a relatively new discipline, bioethics has generated extraordinary interest due to a number of socially pressing issues. Bioethics and the Christian Life places bioethics within the holistic context of the Christian life, both developing a general Christian approach to making bioethics decisions and addressing a number of specific, controversial areas of bioethics. Clear, concise, and well-organized, the book is divided into three sections. The first lays the theological foundation for bioethics decision-making and discusses the importance of wisdom and virtue in working through these issues. The second section addresses beginning-of-life issues, such as abortion, stem-cell research, and infertility treatments. The third section covers end-of-life issues, such as living wills, accepting and refusing medical treatment, and treatment of patients in permanent vegetative states.
Author | : Dennis P. Hollinger |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2002-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 080102563X |
An intelligent discussion of the foundations and methods in ethics and ways to apply a Christian worldview to our secular culture.
Author | : Whitney Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : C. Ben Mitchell |
Publisher | : B&H Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2014-12-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 143367114X |
A biblically informed guidebook for Christians facing difficult health care decisions, from the making of life (infertility, organ donation, cloning) and taking of life (abortion, euthanasia) to the technologically driven faking of life (genetic engineering, etc.).
Author | : E.E. Shelp |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9401577234 |
We who live in this post-modern late twentieth century culture are still children of dualism. For a variety of rather complex reasons we continue to split apart and treat as radical opposites body and spirit, medicine and religion, sacred and secular, private and public, love and justice, men and women. Though this is still our strong tendency, we are beginning to discover both the futility and the harm of such dualistic splitting. Peoples of many ancient cultures might smile at the belatedness of our discovery concerning the commonalities of medicine and religion. A cur sory glance back at ancient Egypt, Samaria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome would disclose a common thread - the close union of religion and medicine. Both were centrally concerned with healing, health, and wholeness. The person was understood as a unity of body, mind, and spirit. The priest and the physician frequently were combined in the same individual. One of the important contributions of this significant volume of essays is the sustained attack upon dualism. From a variety of vantage points, virtually all of the authors unmask the varied manifestations of dualism in religion and medicine, urging a more holistic approach. Since the editor has provided an excellent summary of each article, I shall not attempt to comment on specific contributions. Rather , I wish to highlight three 1 broad themes which I find notable for theological ethics.
Author | : John Breck |
Publisher | : RSM Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Bioethics |
ISBN | : 9780881412994 |
A leading Orthodox Christian ethicist and a licensed psychotherapist provide practical, theological, and pastoral thinking on complex matters: stem cell research, gene therapy, definitions of sexuality and marriage, treatment of addictive behaviors, and end-of-life care.
Author | : Lisa M. Rasmussen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2015-10-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3319189654 |
This volume brings together a set of critical essays on the thought of Professor Doctor H. Tristram Engelhardt Junior, Co-Founding Editor of the Philosophy and Medicine book series. Amongst the founders of bioethics, Professor Engelhardt, Jr. looms large. Many of his books and articles have appeared in multiple languages, including Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese. The essays in this book focus critically on a wide swath of his work, in the process elucidating, critiquing, and/or commending the rigor and reach of his thought. This volume compasses analyses of many different aspects of Engelhardt's work, including social and political philosophy, biopolitics, the philosophy of medicine, and bioethics. It brings together internationally known scholars to assess key elements of Engelhardt's work.