TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gill,Robin
TI  - Health care and Christian ethics
T2  - New studies in Christian ethics
SN  - 9780511488344 (ebook)
AV  - R725.56 .G55 2006
U1  - 241.642 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christian ethics
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488344
ER  -