Marriage, Health, and the Professions : If Marriage Is Good for You, What Does This Mean for Law, Medicine, Ministry, Therapy, and Business?

by Wall, John; Browning, Don; Doherty, William J.; Post, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780802843920
• ISBN10: 0802843921
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Experts on theology team up with leading practitioners in law, medicine, ministry, therapy and business to bring a theological balance to the new secular health view of marriage. Each chapter pursues one of a number of relevant and engaging problems relating to married life.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(12)
John Wall
Don S. Browning
PART I: MARRIAGE AND HEALTH
The Health Benefits of Marriage	13	(20)
Linda J. Waite
The Personal and Social Costs of Divorce	33	(16)
David Popenoe
Barbara Dafoe Whirehead
PART II: MARRIAGE, HEALTH, AND THE PROFESSIONS
Law
The Goods and Goals of Marriage: The Health Paradigm in Historical Perspective	49	(41)
John Witte, Jr.
Is the Genie out of the Bottle?	90	(18)
Muller Davis
Medicine
Health, Marriage, and the Ethics of Medicine	108	(22)
Stephen G. Post
The Family as a Clinical Entity	130	(15)
Edmund D. Pellegrino
Ministry
Whose Marriage? Whose Health? A Christian Feminist Ethical Response	145	(22)
Christine Firer Hinze
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
Health, Marriage, and the Practice of Ministry	167	(19)
Richard A. Hunt
Therapy and Counseling
Health, Christian Marriage Traditions, and the Ethics of Marital Therapy	186	(22)
John Wall
Bonnie Miller-McLemore
Health and the Ethics of Marital Therapy and Education	208	(25)
William J. Doherty
Jason S. Carroll
Business
Familial, Social, and Professional Integrity, in Relationship to Business	233	(21)
Max L. Stackhouse
Reconstructing Home: Business Responsibility for the Family	254	(29)
Shirley J. Roels
PART III: WIDENING THE DISCUSSION
Do Religion and Spirituality Contribute to Marital and Individual Health?	283	(22)
David B. Larson
James P. Swyers
Marriage, Family, and Health in Selected World Religions: Different Perspectives in an Increasingly Pluralist America	305	(19)
Paul D. Numrich
Contributors	324