Peggy Desautels

Praying for a Cure

When Medical and Religious Practices Conflict

Buch

When the children of Christian Scientists die from a treatable illness, are their parents guilty of murder for withholding that treatment? How should the rights of children, the authority of the medical community, and religious freedom be balanced? Is it possible for those adhering to a medical model of health and disease and for those adhering to the Christian Science model to enter into a meaningful dialogue, or are the two models incommensurable? DesAutels, Battin, and May engage in a lucid and candid debate of the issues of who is ultimately responsible for deciding these questions and how to accommodate (and, in some cases, constrain) Ch… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Battin, Margaret P. / May, Larry

ISBN: 978-0-8476-9263-7
EAN: 9780847692637
Produktnummer: 1702353
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Seitenangabe: 150 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 228 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 228

Über den Autor

Peggy DesAutels is assistant professor of philosophy and associate director of the Ethics Center at the University of South Florida. Margaret P. Battin is professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of internal medicine at the University of Utah and the author of numerous books, including Ethics in the Sanctuary: Examining the Practicesof Organized Religion (Yale) and The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics on the End of Life (Rowman & Littlefield). Larry May is professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis and has authored numerous books, including The Socially Responsive Self (Chicago). He is also the co-editor of Rethinking Masculinity (Rowman & Littlefield).