Christian Theology And Medical Ethics

Religion and Sexual Health: Religious traditions, at the popular or theological levels, are often marked by ignorance and misinformation about sexuality and can benefit by the insights of those who work closely with patients in medical and counselling settings. The essays in this volume bring the views of sex counsellors, therapists.Religious beliefs and attitudes have long been recognized as playing an important role in sexual functioning, but the relationship between religion and sexual behavior has rarely been studied in a comprehensive way.

Embodiment, Morality and Medicine deals with the relevance of `embodiment' to bioethics, considering both the historical development and contemporary perspectives on the mind--body relation.

How ought we evaluate the individual and collective actions on which the existence, numbers and identities of future people depend? Nevertheless, as yet there is simply no consensus on how we ought to evaluate such actions or, indeed, on whether we can. Still, the pursuit of a solution to the problem has been interestingly employed by moral philosophers to press the limits of ethics and to urge a reconsideration of the nature and source of value at its most fundamental level.

This does not mean that a careful dissecting of their papers would not reveal normative elements lurking about their methodological points.Religious Methods and Resources in Bioethics A volume on religious/theological methods in biomedical ethics inevitably of whether the methodological dimension can be distin­ raises the question guished from the various other things that go on in ethical discourse.

This book is about trust and its implications for a medical theological ethics. In return, the profes­ sion has pledged to serve the well-being and interests of humankind.

Duties to Others begins to correct this imbalance in our ethical language through theoretical expositions of the ideas of duty and of the `other', and by applied exemplifications of particular duties to identified others that arise in the context of health care.. A pronounced multidisciplinary orientation informs this analysis of our moral call to respond to the needs of others. Duties to Others provides provocative challenges about the terrain of our moral world for both students and professionals in biomedical ethics, medicine, philosophy, and theology.

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Religious beliefs and attitudes have long been recognized as playing an important role in sexual functioning, but the relationship between religion and sexual behavior has rarely been studied in a comprehensive way.

Gustafson. This volume examines the work of four Christian theologians who have significantly influenced the field of bioethics in the U.: Richard McCormick, SJ; Paul Ramsey; Stanley Hauerwas; and James M. Each theorist's writings are explored in turn, in order to elucidate, compare and contrast their foundational theological premises, their particular approaches to moral reasoning, and their considered responses to selected medico-moral issues.

The essays in this volume bring the views of sex counsellors, therapists. theologians, and bioethicists to bear on the relationship between religion and sexuality. A major theme emerging from these essays is that religion and counselling need to learn from one another.Religious beliefs and attitudes have long been recognized as playing an important role in sexual functioning, but the relationship between religion and sexual behavior has rarely been studied in a comprehensive way.