On Moral Medicine

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Religion and Medicine	p. 3
For Doctors and Nurses	p. 5
Honor the Physician	p. 6
The Will to Be Healthy	p. 7
The Secularization of American Medicine	p. 12
Religion and Moral Meaning in Bioethics	p. 22
Illness, the Problem of Evil, and the Analogical Structure of Healing: On the Difference Christianity Makes in Bioethics	p. 30
Theology and Medical Ethics	p. 43
Theology Confronts Technology and the Life Sciences	p. 46
Preface to The Patient as Person	p. 53
Can Theology Have a Role in "Public" Bioethical Discourse?	p. 57
Theology and Bioethics	p. 63
Salvation and Health: Why Medicine Needs the Church	p. 72
Bio-ethics: Some Challenges from a Liberation Perspective	p. 83
Feminist Theology and Bioethics	p. 90
The Profession and its Integrity	p. 105
The Hippocratic Oath	p. 107
The Hippocratic Oath Insofar as a Christian May Swear It	p. 108
The Doctor's Oath - and a Christian Swearing It	p. 108
From "Medical Ethics: Professional or Universal?"	p. 120
Code and Covenant or Philanthropy and Contract?	p. 121
AIDS and the Professions of Healing: A Brief Inquiry	p. 137
The Doctor	p. 145
The Nurse's Profession	p. 146
Life and its Sanctity	p. 151
Genesis 2:4b-7	p. 153
Respect for Life	p. 154
The Transcendence of God and the Value of Human Life	p. 158
Toward Freedom from Value	p. 164
Alien Dignity: The Legacy of Helmut Thielicke for Bioethics	p. 184
Death and its (In)Dignity	p. 193
Psalm 88	p. 195
Lament for a Son	p. 196
The Sacral Power of Death in Contemporary Experience	p. 197
The Indignity of "Death with Dignity"	p. 209
Keeping Body and Soul Together	p. 223
Health and Healing	p. 239
2 Corinthians 12:7-10	p. 241
Sickness and Illusion	p. 242
A Declaration of Faith and Health	p. 247
In Search of Health	p. 250
The WHO Definition of "Health"	p. 253
Why Do We Want to Be Healthy? Medicine, Autonomous Individualism, and the Community of Faith	p. 262
Nature and its Mastery	p. 267
Ode on a Plastic Stapes	p. 269
The Abolition of Man	p. 270
Technological Devices in Medical Care	p. 277
Science: Limits and Prohibitions	p. 283
"Playing God" and Invoking a Perspective	p. 287
The Art of Technology Assessment	p. 297
Bioethics, the Body, and the Legacy of Bacon	p. 308
Care of Patients and Their Suffering	p. 325
Surgical Ward	p. 328
School of Suffering	p. 328
AIDS and the Church	p. 336
Stories and Suffering	p. 347
Patient Suffering and the Anointing of the Sick	p. 356
Practicing Patience: How Christians Should be Sick	p. 364
Respect for Persons and their Agency	p. 373
Four Indicators of Humanhood - The Enquiry Matures	p. 376
Again, Who Is a Person?	p. 380
Must a Patient Be a Person to Be a Patient? Or, My Uncle Charlie Is Not Much of a Person but He Is Still My Uncle Charlie	p. 387
Terra es animata: On Having a Life	p. 390
"Embodiment" and Moral Critique: A Christian Social Perspective	p. 401
Man as Patient	p. 412
Agency and an Interactional Model of Society	p. 420
The Basis of Medicine and Religion: Respect for Persons	p. 423
Contraception	p. 431
Of Human Life (Humarie Vitae)	p. 434
The Contraceptive Revolution and the Human Condition	p. 439
"Human Life" and Human Love	p. 451
Parents and Children	p. 458
Technological Reproduction	p. 465
Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation	p. 469
Whose Bodies? Which Selves? Appeals to Embodiment in Assessments of Reproductive Technology	p. 486
In a Glass Darkly	p. 496
Ethical Implications of In Vitro Fertilization	p. 505
The Ethical Challenge of the New Reproductive Technology	p. 509
The Gestated and Sold	p. 519
Genetic Control	p. 525
Mother and Father	p. 529
Moral and Religious Implications of Genetic Control	p. 529
The Problem of Genetic Manipulation	p. 542
From Clinic to Congregation: Religious Communities and Genetic Medicine	p. 547
Genetics: The British Conversation and a Christian Response	p. 562
The Search for Shalom	p. 569
Ethical Standards for Genetic Intervention	p. 576
Abortion	p. 583
The Catholic Legacy and Abortion: A Debate	p. 586
Respect for Life in the Womb	p. 599
A Protestant Ethical Approach	p. 600
The Fetus as Parasite and Mushroom	p. 612
A Feminist-Liberation View of Abortion	p. 617
Abortion and the Sexual Agenda: A Case for Pro-Life Feminism	p. 623
Liberation, Abortion, and Responsibility	p. 633
Choosing Death and Letting Die	p. 639
Catholic Spirituality and Medical Interventions in Dying	p. 642
"Whose Life Is It Anyway?" Ours, That's Whose!	p. 648
Euthanasia	p. 650
Euthanasia and Christian Vision	p. 655
Covenantal Ethics and Care for the Dying	p. 663
Reflection	p. 666
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Flight from Compassion	p. 668
Rational Suicide and Reasons for Living	p. 671
Care of Neonates	p. 679
Medicine and the Birth of Defective Children: Approaches of the Ancient World	p. 681
Mongolism, Parental Desires, and the Right to Life	p. 693
The Death of Infant Doe: Jesus and the Neonates	p. 708
The Case of Baby Rena	p. 716
Tragedies and Medical Choices: The Lakeburg Twins	p. 723
Justice and Equal Treatment	p. 725
Our Religious Traditions and the Treatment of Infants	p. 728
The Retarded	p. 734
Biblical Faith and the Loss of Children	p. 748
The Physician-Patient Relationship: Advice and Consent	p. 753
Exousia: Healing with Authority in the Christian Tradition	p. 756
Honor Thy Patient	p. 771
Thorn-in-the-Flesh Decision Making: A Christian Overview of the Ethics of Treatment	p. 778
The Truthfulness of a Physician	p. 785
The Physician-Patient Relationship	p. 793
Teacher	p. 796
Empowerment in the Clinical Setting	p. 805
Psychiatric Care: Professional Commitments and Societal Responsibilities	p. 817
Some Contributions of Religion to Mental Health	p. 821
Psychology as Faith	p. 826
Between the Priestly Doctor and the Myth of Mental Illness	p. 828
Crazy in the Streets	p. 845
Afflicting the Afflicted: Total Institutions	p. 853
Welcoming Unexpected Guests to the Banquet	p. 862
Secrets of the Couch and the Grave: The Anne Sexton Case	p. 866
Pine Rest Christian Hospital Mission Statement	p. 878
Research and Experimentation	p. 883
Vivisection	p. 887
The Necessity, Promise, and Dangers of Human Experimentation	p. 890
Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Human Subjects	p. 903
Ethical Considerations in Human Experimentation: Experimentation Involving Children	p. 917
The Use of Zairian Children in HIV Vaccine Experimentation	p. 919
Major Conclusions and Recommendations from the Final Report of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel	p. 932
The Inhuman Use of Human Beings	p. 936
Allocation and Distribution	p. 943
"The Corporate Physician's Oath"	p. 946
Social Justice and Equal Access to Health Care	p. 947
Reform and Rationing: Reflections on Health Care in Light of Catholic Social Teaching	p. 960
Sanctity and Scarcity: The Makings of Tragedy	p. 974
The Ethical Legitimacy of Excluding the Elderly When Medical Resources Are Limited	p. 979
A Pathology of Medical Ethics: Economic Medical Rationing in a Morally Incoherent Society	p. 996
Sick of Being Poor	p. 1001
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