Health Care and Christian Ethics
Health Care and Christian Ethics

Author: Robin Gill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-02-16

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 1139450883

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How can Christian ethics make a significant contribution to health care ethics in today's Western, pluralistic society? Robin Gill examines the 'moral gaps' in secular accounts of health care ethics and the tensions within specifically theological accounts. He explores the healing stories in the Synoptic Gospels, identifying four core virtues present within them - compassion, care, faith and humility - that might bring greater depth to a purely secular interpretation of health care ethics. Each of these virtues is examined in turn, using a range of topical issues including health care rationing, genetics, HIV/AIDS, withholding/withdrawing nutrition from PVS patients, and the empirical evidence which suggests a connection between religion and health. Professor Gill also argues that these four virtues are shared by other major religious and humanistic traditions and that, together with secular principles, they can enrich health care ethics even in a pluralistic society.

Christian Bioethics
Christian Bioethics

Author: C. Ben Mitchell

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 143367114X

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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.).

Christian Ethics and Nursing Practice
Christian Ethics and Nursing Practice

Author: Richard B. Steele

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-06-25

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1532665040

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Christian Ethics and Nursing Practice shows how the religious and moral teachings of the Christian Bible compare, contrast, and correlate with the ethical standards of modern nursing, as stated in the Code of Ethics for Nurses. It describes four main strands of moral discourse in the Bible—law, holiness, wisdom, and prophecy—and shows the relevance of those strands for contemporary bedside and advanced practice nursing. The work could serve as a textbook for courses in nursing ethics at Christian colleges and universities or as a guidebook for practicing nurses, who have devoted their lives to caring for the sick, the injured, the elderly, the disabled, and the dying as a way of living out their commitment to Jesus Christ.

Responsibility and Christian Ethics
Responsibility and Christian Ethics

Author: William Schweiker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-03-11

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780521657099

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Schweiker develops a powerful new theory of responsibility articulated in terms of Christian faith.

Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor
Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor

Author: Robert D. Orr

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2009-10-20

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 080286404X

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Clinical ethics is a relatively new discipline within medicine, generated not so much by the Can we . . . ? questions of fact and prognosis that physicians usually address, but primarily by the more uncomfortable gray areas having to do with Should we . . . ? questions: / Should we use a feeding tube for Mom? / How should we deal with our baby about to be born with life-threatening anomalies? / Should our son be taken off dialysis, even though he ll die without it? / What should we do with our mentally ill sister, who has proven that she is untreatable? / In this book Robert Orr draws on his extensive medical knowledge and experience to offer a wealth of guidance regarding real-life dilemmas in clinical ethics. Replete with instructive case studies, Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor is an invaluable resource that reintroduces the human element to a discussion so often detached from the very people it claims to concern.

Readings in Christian Ethics
Readings in Christian Ethics

Author: David K. Clark

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 1994-02

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0801025818

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Essays by leading ethicists provide students with a comprehensive introduction to ethical thinking.

The Christian Virtues in Medical Practice
The Christian Virtues in Medical Practice

Author: Edmund D. Pellegrino

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 1996-04-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781589014305

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Christian health care professionals in our secular and pluralistic society often face uncertainty about the place religious faith holds in today's medical practice. Through an examination of a virtue-based ethics, this book proposes a theological view of medical ethics that helps the Christian physician reconcile faith, reason, and professional duty. Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma trace the history of virtue in moral thought, and they examine current debate about a virtue ethic's place in contemporary bioethics. Their proposal balances theological ethics, based on the virtues of faith, hope, and charity, with contemporary medical ethics, based on the principles of beneficence, justice, and autonomy. The result is a theory of clinical ethics that centers on the virtue of charity and is manifest in practical moral decisions. Using Christian bioethical principles, the authors address today's divisive issues in medicine. For health care providers and all those involved in the fields of ethics and religion, this volume shows how faith and reason can combine to create the best possible healing relationship between health care professional and patient.

The Cry of the Poor
The Cry of the Poor

Author: Alexandre A. Martins

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-11-21

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1498592198

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This book offers an interdisciplinary effort to address global health issues grounded on a human rights framework seen from the perspective of those who are more vulnerable to be sick and die prematurely: the poor. Combining his scholarship and service in impoverished communities, the author examines the connection between poverty and health inequalities from an ethical perspective that considers contributions from different disciplines and the voices of the poor.

Bioethics and the Christian Life
Bioethics and the Christian Life

Author: David VanDrunen

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2009-10-07

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1433521830

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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.

The Common Good and Christian Ethics
The Common Good and Christian Ethics

Author: David Hollenbach

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-08

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521894517

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The Common Good and Christian Ethics rethinks the ancient tradition of the common good in a way that addresses contemporary social divisions, both urban and global. David Hollenbach draws on social analysis, moral philosophy, and theological ethics to chart new directions in both urban life and global society. He argues that the division between the middle class and the poor in major cities and the challenges of globalisation require a new commitment to the common good and that both believers and secular people must move towards new forms of solidarity.