The Foundations of Christian Bioethics

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Taylor & Francis, 2000 - 414 sider
For decades, Engelhardt has alluded to the ethics that binds moral friends. While his 'Foundations of Bioethics' explored the sparse ethics binding moral strangers, this long-awaited volume addresses the morality at the foundations of Christian bioethics. The volume opens with an analysis of the marginalization of Christian bioethics in the 1970s and the irremedial shortcomings of secular ethics in general. Drawing on the Christianity of the first millennium, Engelhardt provides the ontological and epistemological foundations for a Christian bioethics that can remedy the onesidedness of a secular bioethics and supply the bases for a Christian bioethics. The volume then addresses issues from abortion, third-party-assisted reproduction, and cloning, to withholding and withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Practices such as free and informed consent are relocated within a traditional Christian morality. Attention is also given to the allocation of scarce resources in health care, and to the challenge of maintaining the Christian identity of physicians, nurses, patients, and health care institutions in a culture that is now post-Christian.

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From Christian Bioethics to Secular Bioethics The Establishment of a Liberal Cosmopolitan Morality
1
Confused and Eclipsed
7
The Disappearance of a Difference
14
Moral Crises and the Medieval Faith in Reason
16
From the Reformation and the Enlightenment to Secular Bioethics
20
The Enlightenment and its Dirty Hands
22
Secular Medical Ethics and the Medical Humanities
25
Content Requires Assumptions
28
Two Senses of Theology Two Senses of Christian Bioethics
202
Bioethics in Time and with Persons
208
Procreation Reproduction Cloning Abortion and Birth
233
Bioethics as a Lived Ethics
236
The Mystery of Marriage
239
Rightly and Wrongly Directed
245
Seeking Help to Reproduce
250
Cloning Making Embryos and Using Embryos
260

The Background of PostTraditional Christianity
40
Christian Bioethics Reconsidered
44
At the Roots of Bioethics Reason Faith and the Unity of Morality
73
The Right the Good the Particular and God
75
Immanuel Kant and his AsIf God
80
Hegel and the Justification of Moral Particularity
90
Being a Christian in the PostChristian Age
97
Reason Faith and Bioethics
109
Christian Bioethics as a Human Project Taking Immanence Seriously
127
Knowledge Morality and Religion as Limited Human Projects
129
Living in a World Deaf to God
134
Towards a Christian Bioethics Without Transcendence
144
Christian Bioethics Reconsidered
148
Bioethics and Transcendence At the Heart of the Culture Wars
157
From Discursive Reason to Spiritual Change
162
A Moral Choice not a Miscalculation
164
The Knowledge of the Heart and the Natural Law
168
Nature Natural Law and the Fall
172
Knowledge as a Spiritual Journey
176
Christian Bioethics and Theological Knowledge
179
Moral Theology Christian Bioethics and the Community of Knowers
186
Bishops Councils Popes and Prophets
190
Contraception and a World Well Populated
262
Sterilization Sexchange Operations Alterations in Sexual Identity and Genetic Engineering
268
Premarital Sex Contraception for the Unmarried and AIDS
273
Abortion Miscarriage and Birth
275
Why a Christian Bioethics of Reproduction is so Strange
283
Suffering Disease Dying and Death The Search for Meaning
309
The Cosmic Narrative
313
Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment
316
Why This is all so Different
323
Suicide and Euthanasia
327
Death and Transplantation
332
Miracles Sins Devils and Forgiveness
336
Providing Health Care Consent Conflicts of Interest the Allocation of Medical Resources and Religious Integrity
353
Free and Informed Consent Reconsidered
354
Providing Health Care in a PostChristian Age
366
Religion as a Private Matter
369
The Integrity of Christian Health Care Institutions
379
Christian Bioethics in a PostChristian World
391
Will Austin Texas be the Fourth Rome?
393
Index
399
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Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, H. Tristram Engelhardt holds both a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas (1963) and an M.D. from the Tulane Medical School (1972). From 1972 until 1977, he taught bioethics at the University of Texas Medical School and then, for the next five years, served as Rosemary Kennedy Professor of the Philosophy of Medicine at Georgetown University and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Center for Bioethics in Washington, D.C. Since 1983 he has been professor of internal medicine, community medicine, and obstetrics-gynecology at the Baylor University College of Medicine. For his contributions to bioethics, especially related to the use of human beings in research, Engelhardt has received a Woodrow Wilson fellowship (1988) and a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, Germany (1988--89).

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