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Health care and Christian ethics / Robin Gill.

By: Series: 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:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511147023
  • 9780511147029
  • 0511146442
  • 9780511146442
  • 9780511488344
  • 0511488343
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Health care and Christian ethics.DDC classification:
  • 241.642 22
LOC classification:
  • R725.56 .G55 2006eb
Online resources:
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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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.

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