Morals and Medicine (eBook)

The Moral Problems of the Patient's Right to Know the Truth, Contraception, Artificial Insemination, Sterilization, Euthanasia

Joseph F. Fletcher (Autor)

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2015
268 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6837-7 (ISBN)

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In Morals and Medicine a leading Protestant theologian comes to grips with the problems of conscience raised by new advances in medical science and technology. They arise as issues at the start or making of a life, in preserving its health, and in facing its death. They are the problems of Everyman: some are new problems of conscience, such as artificial insemination; some are old problems in new dimensions, such as euthanasia. Modern medicine provides such a high degree of control over health and vital processes that men must inevitably shoulder the burden of intelligent decision, and shoulder it as rationally as possible. Thus far, only Roman Catholic moralists have worked out a coherent ethics of medical care. Morals and Medicine is a new and independent analysis of the morals of life and death, striking out along the line of the values of personality rather than of mere physiological life itself. It offers a modern and at the same time Christian concept of right and wrong for all who are involved: the patient, the doctor and nurse, the pastor, and the family and friends.Originally published in 1954.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Actual sin • Adoption • adultery • advance healthcare directive • Aldous Huxley • American Freedom and Catholic Power • Animism • anthony comstock • anti-intellectualism • antiseptic • Apostasy • Appeal to emotion • Artificial Insemination • attempt • Benjamin Kidd • Birth Control • Casti Connubii • Categorical imperative • celibacy • Charles Bradlaugh • Charles Knowlton • chastity • Childlessness • Christian burial • Christian Ethics • Compulsory sterilization • Conscience • Consciousness • Counter-Reformation • Crime • Demonology • Desertion • divine law • Donor • Erectile dysfunction • ethics • Ethics in religion • Eugenics • euthanasia • Fatalism • Felo de se • Fetus • Fraud • glorification • God • Good and evil • Health • Health Care • heterodoxy • hypocrisy • Idiot • Inbreeding • Incest • infanticide • Involuntary euthanasia • Jan Swammerdam • Jonathan Swift • Justifiable homicide • Lactantius • Legitimacy (family law) • martyr • Medical Ethics • monogamy • Morality • Natural Family Planning • Natural Law • Orthodox Judaism • Pathology • Peptic Ulcer • perjury • Philosophy • Physical disorder • Physician • Pious fraud • Pope Pius XII • Presumption (canon law) • Principle of double effect • Problem of evil • Prohibition in the United States • Religion • Right to life • Roman government • Sacrosanctity • Salpingectomy • Secular state • Seven Deadly Sins • socialized medicine • Stoicism • Suicide • terminal illness • Theodicy • The Philosopher • Therapeutic abortion • Thought • Torture • Utilitarianism • Vivisection • Voluntary euthanasia • wickedness
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6837-8 / 1400868378
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6837-7 / 9781400868377