Theological Bioethics - Participation, Justice, and Change

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Sowle Cahill is the J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology at Boston College. A former president of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Catholic Theological Society of America! she is the author of Sex! Gender! and Christian Ethics; Family: A Christian Social Perspective; 'Love Your Enemies': Discipleship! Pacifism! and Just War Theory! and other books. Klappentext Cahill, a theological ethicist and progressive Catholic calls for progressive religious thinkers and believers to join in the effort to reclaim the best of their traditions by engaging political forces at both community and national levels to ensure that access to health care is the top priority of "participatory bioethics." Georgetown University Press Zusammenfassung Such a participatory bioethics! she argues! must also take account of and take part in a global social network of mobilization for change; it must seek out those in solidarity! those involved in a common calling to create a more just social! political! and economic system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Theologians and Bioethics 2. Participatory Theological Bioethics in Action 3. Decline and Dying: Cultural and Theological Interpretations 4. Decline and Dying: Principles of Analysis and Practices of Solidarity 5. National and International Health Access Reform 6. Reproduction and Early Life 7. Biotechnology! Genes! and Justice Final Reflections Acknowledgments Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Sowle Cahill, Cahill Lisa Sowle, Lisa Sowle Cahill
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2005
• EAN: 9781589010758
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-075-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Moral Traditions (Paperback); Moral Traditions series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Ethics & moral philosophy, Bioethics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Bio-ethics