| Dignity & Dying: A Christian Appraisal Contributor(s): Kilner, John F. (Editor), Pellegrino, Edmund D. (Editor), Miller, Arlene B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0802842321 ISBN-13: 9780802842329 Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1996 Annotation: This book offers a variety of perspectives on significant ethical issues in the field of medicine and health care, particularly as they relate to death and dying. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Death, Grief, Bereavement - Religion | Christian Theology - Ethics |
| Dewey: 241.697 |
| LCCN: 96002784 |
| Series: Horizons in Bioethics Series |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.23" W x 9.19" (0.87 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Twenty leading experts in the bioethics debate here engage matters of dignity and dying from a Christian perspective. The book begins with essays by David Schiedermayer, Arlene Miller, and Gregory Waybright that root the book in the experience of dying itself. This is followed by contributions from Nigel Cameron, John Dunlop, Marsha Fowler, and Allen Verhey on the topics that provide the guiding vision for approaches to dignity and dying: autonomy, death, suffering, and faithfulness. Four of the most pressing end-of-life challenges-forgoing treatment, medical futility, definition of death, and assisted suicide/euthanasia-are then examined by John Kilner, Christopher Hook, Holly Vautier, and Edmund Pellegrino. The next section, with contributions from Ben Mitchell, Jerome Wernow, Arthur Dyck, and Henk Jochemsen, is devoted to investigations of key settings where people have wrestled with these challenges: Nazi Germany; Oregon; North American legal systems; and the Netherlands. Finally, the book concludes with discussions of five potentially constructive alternatives to the premature ending of life: hospice care (by Martha Twaddle); long-term care (by James Thobaben); wise advocacy (by James Reitman); parish nursing (by Norma Small); and congregational ministry (by Dennis Hollinger). |