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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Entering the World of Medicine - Contexts -- Introduction: learning from a tragedy -- The global context of medicine -- The state of Western medicine -- 3 Why Bioethics Needs a Philosophy (and Th eology) of Medicine -- Introduction -- Euthanasia -- Janet Radcliffe Richards on organ transplantation -- Digging deeper -- Conclusion: why bioethics needs a philosophy (and theology) of medicine -- 4 Perspectives on Philosophy of Medicine -- Health, healing and philosophy of medicine -- Evidence- based medicine, clinical judgement and medical knowing -- Phenomenology and philosophy of medicine -- Conclusion -- 5 Perspectives on Theology of Medicine -- Introduction: theology, medicine and a 'culture of death'? -- Christian theological critiques of the culture of medicine -- Edmund Pellegrino's Christian philosophy of medicine -- 6 Finding the Target: Messer's Theology of Health -- Philosophy of health -- Theology of health -- 7 A Philosophical-Theological Framework for Medicine -- A philosophical framework: practising Christian scholarship -- Epistemology and theories of medicine -- A theological framework: biblical theology and God's story -- 8 Human Vulnerability and the Goods of Medicine -- Medicine as social practice -- Medicine as caring for this frail flesh: human vulnerability and the practice of medicine -- Medicine as an inherently moral practice -- 9 Re-engaging the World of Medicine: Applying Philosophy and Theology of Medicine -- A summary of the argument so far -- Bringing philosophy and theology of medicine to bear on the world of practice -- Majority world medicine, scarcity and medicine as a moral practice -- Concluding pedagogical refl ections -- Bibliography -- Index.

The unthinkable and unlivable Peter Singer / Gordon Preece -- Singer, preference utilitarianism, and infanticide / Andrew Sloane -- Professor Peter Singer on Christianity: characterized or caricatured? / Graham Cole -- Human beings, species or special?: a critique of Peter Singer on animals / Lindsay Wilson -- Rethinking Singer on life and death / Gordon Preece.

Die Sammlung behandelt Meinungen und Einstellungen der sowjetischen Bevölkerung und Führung sowie das Bild der UdSSR in den USA. Erörtert werden politische, kulturelle und religiöse Aspekte in den Beziehungen beider Nationen sowie Möglichkeiten und Wege gegenseitigen Verständnisses. (BIOst-Hat)

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Background and history : mainline denominations -- Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) -- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (PCUSA) -- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) -- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (CCDC) -- American Baptist Churches in the USA (ABC) -- United Church of Christ (UCC) -- Reformed Church in America (RCA) -- United Methodist Church (UMC) -- Catholic Church -- National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) -- Renewal movements -- Mainline Christian denominations and public policy -- Problems, controversies, and solutions -- Sexuality issues within denominations -- Capital punishment -- Embryonic stem-cell research -- End-of-life decisions and the right to die -- Faith-based initiative -- Immigration -- Iraq war -- Abortion -- Values and public policy -- Worldwide perspective -- England -- France -- Germany -- Italy -- Poland -- Sweden -- Biographical sketches -- Daniel Berrigan -- Joan Chittister -- William Sloane Coffin, Jr. -- John Clagget Danforth -- Dorothy Day -- Robert W. (Bob) Edgar -- James A. Forbes, Jr. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick -- Wesley Granberg-Michaelson -- Wilton D. Gregory -- Frank T. Griswold -- Mark S. Hanson -- Katharine Jeffers Schori -- Elizabeth A. Johnson -- Barry W. Lynn -- Roger Michael Mahoney -- Martin E. Marty -- A. Roy Medley -- Reinhold Niebuhr -- Sean Patrick O'Malley -- Norman Vincent Peale -- George F. Regas -- Robert H. Schuller -- Fulton J. Sheen -- John Shelby Spong -- John H. Thomas -- Sharon E. Watkins -- Documents and data -- Data overview of the mainline denominations -- Documents and quotations -- Equality and poverty -- Public schools -- Mainline political engagement -- Sexuality issues -- Immigration -- Faith-based initiative -- Iraq War -- Science -- Abortion -- Embryonic stem-cell research -- End-of-life decisions, the right to die, and euthanasia -- Environment -- Death penalty -- Directory of organizations -- Selected print and nonprint resources

Confronting Religious Denial of Science: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination traces the cultural backstory of contemporary conflicts between biblical literalists who oppose evolution and "New Atheists" who insist that religion is so pernicious it should be outlawed, if not exterminated. That's a clash of fundamentalisms. It's a zero-sum game derived from high Victorian misunderstanding of both religion and science. The God whom science supposedly replaces is the Engineer Almighty sitting at his keyboard, controlling every event on earth. But that's not a viable concept of God. Far better, Wallace argues, to understand Christianity in Clifford Geertz's terms as a system of symbols that both constitutes a worldview and, according to David Sloan Wilson, encourages prosocial behavior. That reframing makes it possible to reclaim what biblical scholars have said for decades: the miracles of Jesus were confrontational symbolic actions. They contradicted the political status quo in colonial Palestine, not the laws of biology. Prayer, she explains, is not magical thinking. It's a creative, highly disciplined introspective process, most familiar to many people in forms like mindfulness meditation. Wallace offers an intriguing exploration of issues that believers seldom discuss in ways that make sense to the religiously unaffiliated