Bioethics from a Faith Perspective

Ethics in Health Care for the Twenty-First Century

Jack T Hanford, Harold G Koenig (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

162 Seiten

2002
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-1510-5 (ISBN)

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Discover the spiritual community's position on bioethics issues!Bioethics from a Faith Perspective: Ethics in Health Care for the Twenty-First Century offers a meaningful, rational, faith-oriented framework for deciding how to deal with important biomedical health care issues. Organ donation, managed care, the Human Genome Project, and medical technology that keeps people alive beyond their “natural” life span are some of the topics it illuminates through case analysis and resolution. Since almost all textbooks in bioethics omit the religious dimension of life (even though the field was inspired and stimulated by religious scholars at Princeton and Yale), this is an indispensable volume.While most people state their moral positions from the background of their religious traditions, many have not had the opportunity to study the relation between their faith perspectives and the difficult issues that arise in the pursuit of health care. This book shows the relevance, significance, and guidance that a faith perspective can offer for dealing with bioethical issues.This unique and thoughtful book:

shows you how to distinguish and describe the relation between technical and ethical aspects of health-related issues
provides you with a framework of moral principles, theories, values, and faith viewpoints
teaches you the defining characteristics of a moral professional-client relationship related to faith
helps you to discern when medical ethics and faith commitments are therapeutic and when they are not
gives examples describing a moral problem, a faith perspective, and a justified position on that problem

Since bioethics has been an amazing story of growth from the 1950s to the present day and is still expanding, there will be changes. Bioethics from a Faith Perspective stimulates that expansion by including the religious dimension. It is the perfect supplement to the existing literature on the subject.

Jack T Hanford, Harold G Koenig

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
The Technical-Ethical Distinction
Chapter 1. Framework: Advancing Moral Reasoning toward a Faith Perspective
Chapter 2. The Relationship Between Moral Development and Faith Development
Kohlberg and Morality
Fowler and Faith
Similarities Between Kohlberg and Fowler
Differences Between Kohlberg and Fowler
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Is the Faith of Faith Development Christian Faith?
Question
Response
Chapter 4. A Therapeutic Christian Bioethics
Chapter 5. A Public Faith
Religion, Values and Public Life, and Biomedical Ethics
The Inclusion of Public Religion in Biomedical Ethics in America
Chapter 6. Public Faith and Religion, Medical Ethics, and Transplants
Chapter 7. Mental Health and Managed Care
Pellegrino's Faith Perspective
Managed Care
Issues and Strategies
An Update on Ethics in Managed Care for the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion
Chapter 8. Ethics in Genetics: The Human Genome Project
Chapter 9. Faith and Medical Technology: Toward an Ethics for Medical Technology
Introduction
Nineteenth Century
Twentieth Century
Use of the Technical-Ethical Distinction
Conclusion
Chapter 10. A Faith Perspective on the Elderly in Bioethics
History
Constructive Theories from William James, Kohlberg, and Fowler
A Sample Course on Biomedical Ethics and Aging
Conclusion
Chapter 11. Bioethics for Pastors from a Faith Perspective
Problems for Christianity and the University
The Need for Authentic Profession in Ministry and Health Care
Discerning the Effectiveness of Ministry
Pastors and Physician-Assisted Suicide or Death
Pastors and Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM)
The Pastor and the Consent Procedure
Conclusion
Chapter 12. Bioethics for Nurses from a Faith Perspective
Is the Nurse a Professional?
Faith Perspective
Does Faith Contribute to Effective Practice?
Conclusion
Conclusion
References
Index

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-7890-1510-2 / 0789015102
ISBN-13	978-0-7890-1510-5 / 9780789015105
Zustand	Neuware