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Health care and Christian ethics / Robin Gill.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New studies in Christian ethics ; 26.Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0511147023
  • 9780511147029
  • 0511146442
  • 9780511146442
  • 9780511488344
  • 0511488343
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Health care and Christian ethics.DDC classification:
  • 241.642 22
LOC classification:
  • R725.56 .G55 2006eb
NLM classification:
  • 2006 D-868
  • W 50
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.62
  • BK 6100
  • BK 8200
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Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Moral gaps in secular health care ethics; Chapter 2 Tensions in public theology; Chapter 3 Healing in the Synoptic Gospels; Chapter 4 Compassion in health care ethics; Chapter 5 Care in health care ethics; Chapter 6 Faith in health care ethics; Chapter 7 Humility in health care ethics; Conclusion; Bibliography of works cited; Index.
Summary: How can Christian ethics contribute significantly to health care ethics in today's Western, pluralistic society? Gill explores the healing stories in the Synoptic Gospels, identifying four core virtues present within them - compassion, care, faith and humility - that might bring greater depth to a purely secular interpretation of health care ethics.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)149861

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.

Print version record.

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Moral gaps in secular health care ethics; Chapter 2 Tensions in public theology; Chapter 3 Healing in the Synoptic Gospels; Chapter 4 Compassion in health care ethics; Chapter 5 Care in health care ethics; Chapter 6 Faith in health care ethics; Chapter 7 Humility in health care ethics; Conclusion; Bibliography of works cited; Index.

How can Christian ethics contribute significantly to health care ethics in today's Western, pluralistic society? Gill explores the healing stories in the Synoptic Gospels, identifying four core virtues present within them - compassion, care, faith and humility - that might bring greater depth to a purely secular interpretation of health care ethics.