Health and Human Flourishing
. Ed(S): Taylor, Carol R.; Dell'Oro, Roberto
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Description for Health and Human Flourishing
Hardback. Provides contributions from a range of disciplines that mine the intersection of the secular and the religious, the medical and the moral, to unearth the ethical and clinical implications. This title includes an examination of how a theological anthropology can help us better understand health care, social policy, and science. Editor(s): Taylor, Carol R.; Dell'Oro, Roberto. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
What, exactly, does it mean to be human? It is an age-old question, one for which theology, philosophy, science, and medicine have all provided different answers. But though a unified response to the question can no longer be taken for granted, how we answer it frames the wide range of different norms, principles, values, and intuitions that characterize today's bioethical discussions. If we don't know what it means to be human, how can we judge whether biomedical sciences threaten or enhance our humanity? This fundamental question, however, receives little attention in the study of bioethics. In a field consumed with ... Read more
What, exactly, does it mean to be human? It is an age-old question, one for which theology, philosophy, science, and medicine have all provided different answers. But though a unified response to the question can no longer be taken for granted, how we answer it frames the wide range of different norms, principles, values, and intuitions that characterize today's bioethical discussions. If we don't know what it means to be human, how can we judge whether biomedical sciences threaten or enhance our humanity? This fundamental question, however, receives little attention in the study of bioethics. In a field consumed with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781589010789
SKU
V9781589010789
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Taylor, Carol R.; Dell'Oro, Roberto
Carol R. Taylor is director of the Center for Clinical Bioethics, a senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and an assistant professor of nursing at Georgetown University. Roberto Dell'Oro is assistant professor in The Bioethics Institute and the graduate director of the Master of Arts Program in Bioethics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Reviews for Health and Human Flourishing
Health and Human Flourishing represents a positive contribution towards validating voices of faith expressed through rational argumentation in the sphere of bioethics. Health Progress The contributors' ability to see the healing professions not only in terms of positive outcomes, but also in the context of our interdependence and mutual frailty suggests that the field of medical ethics is indeed reaching ... Read more