Religion and Medical Ethics: Looking Back, Looking Forward

by Allen Verhey

Overview

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.

This book gathers the reflections of seven of the nation's most significant moral theologians in the field of bioethics — James M. Gustafson, Stanley Hauerwas, Stephen E. Lammers, Karen Lebacqz, Warren T. Reich, David H. Smith, and Allen Verhey. The outgrowth of The Institute of Religion's 1993 conference on ethics in medicine and technology, these essays and reports from working groups look back at the contributions of theology to bioethics in the past and set an agenda for theological reflection on bioethics in the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802808622
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	04/19/1996
Series:	Institute of Religion Series on Religion and Health Care , #1
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Allen Verhey (1945-2014) was Robert Earl Cushman Professor of Christian Theology at Duke Divinity School.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
	Religion and the Roots of the Bioethics Revival	9
	The Marginalization of Religious Voices in Bioethics	19
	Alien Dignity: The Legacy of Helmut Thielicke for Bioethics	44
	How Christian Ethics Became Medical Ethics: The Case of Paul Ramsey	61
	Styles of Religious Reflection in Medical Ethics	81
	A New Era for Bioethics: The Search for Meaning in Moral Experience	96
	Contexts for Medical Ethics and the Challenges for Religious Voices: Reports of the Working Groups	120
	Some Issues and the Future of Theological Reflection: Reports of the Working Groups	130
	Meditation: Is the Last Word "Darkness"?	142
	Contributors	151

Editorial Reviews

Kenneth L. Vaux
—director, Center for Ethics, Garret-Evangelical Theological Seminary
"As our secular and ethically pluralistic society looks for foundations for practical morality and as we probe the provocative social sphere of health care for ethical moorings and bearings, this volume helpfully scans the theological heritage. If medicine is ever again to become ministry rather than business, these sources of value must be recovered."

L. Gregory Jones
—Loyola College in Maryland
"In recent years, medical ethics has marginalized religious voices, and the result has been impoverished and often sterile debates. This significant volume brings together seven major theologians to reflect on earlier debates prior to the marginalization, and to chart possibilities for richer and more engaged debates in the future."

Lisa Sowle Cahill
—Boston College
"This collection gathers some of the most important voices in the emergence of bioethics as a theological field. . . . Highlighting the difference religious commitment makes, this book brings forward and nuances the matter of theology's relevance to policy debates."

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