Carol R Taylor

Health and Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine, and Moral Anthropology Carol R Taylor

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Theological anthropology and bioethics / Roberto dell'Oro -- Vulnerability, agency, and human flourishing / Alisa Carse -- Pluralism, truthfulness, and the patience of being / William Desmond -- Dignity and the human as a natural kind / Daniel P. Sulmasy -- On being true to form / Margaret Mohrmann -- The integrity conundrum / Suzanne Holland -- Vulnerabilty and the meaning of illness / Kay Toombs -- A meditation on vulnerability and power / Richard M. Zaner -- Vulnerability within the body of Christ: anointing of the sick and theological anthropology / M. Therese Lysaught -- Gender and human relationality / Christine E. Gudorf -- Bioethics, relationships, and participation in the common good / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Healthcare, social policy, and science / Carol Taylor -- Health policy and a theological anthropology / Ron Hamel -- Science and a theological anthropology / Kevin T. Fitzgerald -- Toward a richer bioethics / Edmund D. Pellegrino. Review Quotes:" "Health and Human Flourishing" represents a positive contribution towards validating voices of faith expressed through rational argumentation in the sphere of bioethics." -- "Health Progress"Review Quotes:"The contributors' ability to see the healing professions not only in terms of positive outcomes, but also in the context of our interdependence and mutual frailty suggests that the field of medical ethics is indeed reaching into its full human maturity." -- "America"Review Quotes:"[U]ndoubtably relevant beyond the US Catholic milieu. The collection will be helpful, not only to those engaged in medicine or bioethics, but to anyone reflecting on the meaning of human vulnerability, integrity, relationality and flourishing in the light of experiences of illness and healing." -- "The Way"Review Quotes:"[T]his book is to be praised and indeed read and discussed for its daring attempt to address the anthropological quandry, thereby moving the bioethical debate beyond its usual focus on rights, decision making, and (meta-)ethical theories." -- "Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics"Commendation Quotes:"Those who have lamented the moral minimalism of much conventional bioethics should celebrate this splendid volume. Those who have called for 'a richer bioethics' should delight in it. Its attention to the nature of human nature and of human flourishing provides an antidote to the reduction of morality to universal and minimal principles. Its thoughtful consideration of human vulnerability, integrity, and relationality displays the poverty of an ethic focused on autonomy and points toward a bioethics richer than an emphasis on individual choice can provide. Nurturing a conversation among philosophers, theologians, and health care professionals, the book rejects both 'the view from nowhere' and ideological relativism. Some essays retrieve religious traditions concerning what is at stake in our being sick or in caring for those who are (indeed, more than one attends to scripture!), and others display the public intelligibility of such a richer account using the tools of phenomenology or analysis. The book is enough to give one hope for the future of bioethics." -- Allen Verhey, professor of theological ethics, Duke Divinity SchoolPublisher Marketing: What exactly does it mean to be human? It is an age-old question, one for which theology, philosophy, science, and medicine have all provided different answers. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines unearth the ethical and clinical implications of human existence. Review Citations:

Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 31 (EAN 9781589010796, Paperback)