Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion

Autoreninformationen

John J. Fitzgerald is Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John's University, USA. He specializes in ethics, with particular attention to fundamental and health care issues. He has published one other book, The Seductiveness of Virtue: Abraham Joshua Heschel and John Paul II on Morality and Personal Fulfillment (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017), and written multiple articles on ethics and religion in academic journals.

Ashley John Moyse is McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life at Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK. His research is located at the intersection of theological and philosophical ethics, with particular interest in bioethics and medical humanities. His research has been presented and published internationally, including his book Reading Karl Barth, Interrupting Moral Technique, Transforming Biomedical Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Jeffrey P. Bishop

Introduction

John J. Fitzgerald and Ashley John Moyse

Prologue: Which Medicine? Whose Religion?

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

PART I: Understanding the Body

1 Responsibility for the Broken Body: Exploring the Invitation to Respond to the Presence of the Other

Ashley John Moyse

2 Embodied Soul and Ensouled Body: Reflections on Ravaisson and Theological Methodology

Matthew S. Vest

3 Judaism on the Body and the Practice of Medicine

Elliot N. Dorff

4 "The Believer is Never Impure": Islam and Understanding the Embodied Person

Ingrid Mattson

PART II: Respecting the Body

5 Reverence for the Body: An Ethical Principle Grounded in Human Experience

Jacek L. Mostwin

6 Healthy Legacies? Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas on Caring for Others and Ourselves

John J. Fitzgerald

7 Islam, Medicine, and Practice: The Manifestation of Islamic Moral Values in Everyday Aspects of the U.S. Health Care System

Cortney Hughes Rinker

8 A Shared Common Good: Catholic and Muslim Bioethical Approaches to HIV/AIDS in Kenya

Timothy Carey

PART III: The Body at the End of Life

9 In the Land of Pain: Why Daudet and Hitchens Are Still Relevant

Susan E. Zinner

10 Suffering, Death, and the Significance of Presence

Autumn Alcott Ridenour

11 The Dead Body as an Object of Investigation, Intrigue, and Reverence

D. Gareth Jones

12 Defining Death in the Context of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives

Noam Stadlan

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