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Health care and Christian ethics / Robin Gill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gill, Robin, author.
- Series:
- New studies in Christian ethics. ; 26.
- New studies in Christian ethics ; 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Medical ethics.
- Christian ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Health Care & Christian Ethics
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Moral gaps in secular health care ethics
- Tensions in public theology
- Healing in the synoptic gospels
- Compassion in health care ethics
- Care in health care ethics
- Faith in health care ethics
- Humility in health care ethics.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-15591-6
- 1-280-43192-X
- 9786610431922
- 0-511-18403-4
- 0-511-14702-3
- 0-511-14600-0
- 0-511-31252-0
- 0-511-48834-3
- 0-511-14644-2
- OCLC:
- 171138050
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