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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Health and human flourishing. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2006 (OCoLC)607743262 Online version: Health and human flourishing. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2006 (OCoLC)632178183 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Carol Taylor; Roberto Dell'Oro |
ISBN: | 1589010787 9781589010789 1589010795 9781589010796 |
OCLC Number: | 61745539 |
Description: | viii, 284 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Theological anthropology and bioethics / Roberto dell'Oro -- Vulnerability, agency, and human flourishing / Alisa L. Carse -- Pluralism, truthfulness, and the patience of being / William Desmond -- Dignity and the human as a natural kind / Daniel P. Sulmasy -- On being true to form / Margaret E. Mohrmann -- The integrity conundrum / Suzanne Holland -- Vulnerability and the meaning of illness : reflections on lived experience / S. Kay Toombs -- A meditation on vulnerability and power / Richard M. Zaner -- Vulnerability within the body of Christ : anointing of the sick and theological anthropology / M. Therese Lysaught -- Gender and human relationality / Christine E. Gudorf -- Bioethics, relationships, and participation in the common good / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Health care and a theological anthropology / Carol Taylor -- Health policy and a theological anthropology / Ron Hamel -- Science and a theological anthropology / Kevin T. FitzGerald -- Toward a richer bioethics : a conclusion / Edmund D. Pellegrino. |
Responsibility: | Carol Taylor and Roberto dell'Oro, editors. |
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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 into its full human maturity. America This book is to be praised and indeed read and discussed for its daring attempt to address the anthropological quandry, thereby moving the bioethical debate beyond its usual focus on rights, decision making, and (meta-)ethical theories. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Undoubtably relevant beyond the US Catholic milieu. The collection will be helpful, not only to those engaged in medicine or bioethics, but to anyone reflecting on the meaning of human vulnerability, integrity, relationality and flourishing in the light of experiences of illness and healing. The Way Read more...

