TY  - BOOK
AU  - Messer,Neil
TI  - Flourishing: health, disease, and bioethics in theological perspective 
SN  - 9781467440554
AV  - R723 .M465 2013eb
U1  - 174.2 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
KW  - Health
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Business Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index; Introduction: The importance of concepts of health and disease -- Philosophical accounts of health, disease, and illness -- Disability perspectives: critical insights and questions -- Theological resources for understanding health and disease -- Theological theses concerning health, disease, and illness
N2  - We use such words as "health," "disease," and "illness" all the time without stopping to consider exactly what we understand by them. Yet their meanings are far from straightforward, and disagreements over them have important practical consequences in health care and bioethics. In this book Neil Messer develops a distinctive and innovative theological account of these concepts. He engages in earnest with debates in the philosophy of medicine and disability studies and draws on a wide array of theological resources including Barth, Bonhoeffer, Aquinas, and recent disability theologies. By enabling us to understand health in the wider perspective of the flourishing and ultimate destiny of human beings, Messer's Flourishing sheds new light on a range of practical bioethical issues and dilemmas
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