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"Listening to the Whispers" gives voice to scholars in philosophy, medical anthropology, physical therapy, and nursing, helping readers re-think ethics across the disciplines in the context of today's healthcare system. Diverse voices, often unheard, challenge readers to enlarge the circle of their ethical concerns and look for hidden pathways toward new understandings of ethics. Essays range from a focus on the context of corporatization and managed...

Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics, Second Edition, offers an indispensable guide to the bioethical issues that confront today's students, scholars, and practitioners. The practical reference is organized into three sections: theology (basic issues underlying Catholic thought), methodology (how Catholic theology approaches moral issues, including birth control), and applications to contemporary issues. New chapters discuss controversial end-of-life...

"The subject of this book is conscientious objection in health care and the principal aim is to provide an ethical analysis of conscience-based refusals by physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Before considering ethical issues, however, it is essential to understand what conscientious objection is, which calls for conceptual analysis. A person engages in an act of conscientious objection when she refuses to perform an action, provide a service, and...

We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance dividing the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that the poor have not, we often overlook the most critical their health. The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans. In nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities...

"In this book, a physician, well-known for praying with his patients, and an award-winning professor of theology share their insights on how religious faith can provide help in the healing processes of today's health care ministry. The authors avoid rehashing analytical theories on suffering and the 'miracles' of healing they may have seen, instead examining how personal faith can enhance the immune system, how a spiritual outlook can help bear the...

The first broad interdisciplinary analysis of the phenomenon of medically-induced illness and injury, the book integrates history, philosophy, medical ethics and empirical data to examine the concept of medical harm.