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Submit a ProposalThe Foundations of Christian Bioethics
 | By H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. Copyright: 2000 | Status: Published ISBN: 9789026515576 | Hardcover | 2 lbs 438 pages Price: $34.95 USD  |
One Line Description
One of the major figures in bioethics documents in great scholarly detail the Christian foundations of bioethics. One of the major figures in bioethics documents in great scholarly detail the Christian foundations of bioethics.
Audience
A great many people from many walks of life continue to read this book, including philosophers, bioethicists, nurses, theologians, seminarians, orthodox and catholic lay people.
A great many people from many walks of life continue to read this book, including philosophers, bioethicists, nurses, theologians, seminarians, orthodox and catholic lay people.
Description
For decades, Engelhardt has alluded to the ethics that binds moral friends. While his 'Foundations of Bioethics' explored the sparse ethics binding moral strangers, this long-awaited volume addresses the morality at the foundations of Christian bioethics. The volume opens with an analysis of the marginalization of Christian bioethics in the 1970s and the irremedial shortcomings of secular ethics in general. Drawing on the Christianity of the first millennium, Engelhardt provides the ontological and epistemological foundations for a Christian bioethics that can remedy the onesidedness of a secular bioethics and supply the bases for a Christian bioethics. The volume then addresses issues from abortion, third-party-assisted reproduction, and cloning, to withholding and withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Practices such as free and informed consent are relocated within a traditional Christian morality. Attention is also given to the allocation of scarce resources in health care, and to the challenge of maintaining the Christian identity of physicians, nurses, patients, and health care institutions in a culture that is now post-Christian.
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For decades, Engelhardt has alluded to the ethics that binds moral friends. While his 'Foundations of Bioethics' explored the sparse ethics binding moral strangers, this long-awaited volume addresses the morality at the foundations of Christian bioethics. The volume opens with an analysis of the marginalization of Christian bioethics in the 1970s and the irremedial shortcomings of secular ethics in general. Drawing on the Christianity of the first millennium, Engelhardt provides the ontological and epistemological foundations for a Christian bioethics that can remedy the onesidedness of a secular bioethics and supply the bases for a Christian bioethics. The volume then addresses issues from abortion, third-party-assisted reproduction, and cloning, to withholding and withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Practices such as free and informed consent are relocated within a traditional Christian morality. Attention is also given to the allocation of scarce resources in health care, and to the challenge of maintaining the Christian identity of physicians, nurses, patients, and health care institutions in a culture that is now post-Christian.
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Reviews
"Engelhardt has produced a powerful statement of belief and a cogent reminder that medicine is not the summun bonum of life. It is a tool to comfort and support the patient in living the0 life most meaningful to him or her. It is an important book deserving attention."
Hastings Center Report
"This is a book which -- though deliberately dogmatic in ways designed to offend a society in which all opinions are permitted but no opinion can be judged wrong -- is written with a kind of zest and good humor that deserves to be enjoyed."
First Things
"Engelhardt has produced a powerful statement of belief and a cogent reminder that medicine is not the summun bonum of life. It is a tool to comfort and support the patient in living the0 life most meaningful to him or her. It is an important book deserving attention."
Hastings Center Report
"This is a book which -- though deliberately dogmatic in ways designed to offend a society in which all opinions are permitted but no opinion can be judged wrong -- is written with a kind of zest and good humor that deserves to be enjoyed."
First Things
"Presents a thorough account."
Theology Digest
"This is an extraordinary book, extraordinary in its scope and erudition, in its intellectual rigor, and in its demonstration of faith. I commend this book to all those who can admire the sheer brilliance of the work. It deserves to be most widely read."
Medical Humanities Review
Theology Digest
"This is an extraordinary book, extraordinary in its scope and erudition, in its intellectual rigor, and in its demonstration of faith. I commend this book to all those who can admire the sheer brilliance of the work. It deserves to be most widely read."
Medical Humanities Review
"This is an extraordinarily rich and scholarly book. The main arguments are explained and defended with a combination of clarity, ferocity and a sheer learnedness that makes for exhilarating reading."
Monash Bioethics Review
"The book presents a compelling image of the traditional Christian approach. To those who have not experienced this faith, we can only echo the author's invitation: "Come, taste and see."
Divine Ascent
Monash Bioethics Review
"The book presents a compelling image of the traditional Christian approach. To those who have not experienced this faith, we can only echo the author's invitation: "Come, taste and see."
Divine Ascent
"Engelhardt has thrown down a challenge to secular bioethics that cannot be avoided. Let the argument begin."
Professor Stanley Hauerwas, The Divinity School, Duke University
"I strongly recommend this important, powerful, and challenging book."
James F. Childress, Kyle Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia
Professor Stanley Hauerwas, The Divinity School, Duke University
"I strongly recommend this important, powerful, and challenging book."
James F. Childress, Kyle Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia
"A profound and provocative book."
M. Cathleen Kaveny, Notre Dame Law School, University of Notre Dame
M. Cathleen Kaveny, Notre Dame Law School, University of Notre Dame
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Author / Editor Details
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., holds degrees in both medicine and philosophy. He is professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University, professor emeritus in the Department of Medicine, Baylor College of
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., holds degrees in both medicine and philosophy. He is professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University, professor emeritus in the Department of Medicine, Baylor College of
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BISAC SUBJECT HEADINGS
REL049000: Christianity/Orthodox
PHI005000: Philosophy/Ethics & Moral Philosophy
MED050000: Medical Ethics
BIC CODES
PASD: Bioethics
HRCC8: Orthodox and Oriential Churches
HRCM: Christian Theology
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