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Overview page. Subjects: Social Sciences — Arts and Humanities.
Many sociological and anthropological definitions exist, but most tend to privilege some combination of small-scale, relative boundedness, strong affective ties, traditionalism, and...
Asher, Asher (1837–1889), physician and community worker
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
September 2004; p ublished online September 2004 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Politics and Law; Medicine and Health; Judaism and Jewish Studies; Ethnic Politics. 1068 words.
Asher, Asher (1837–1889), physician and community worker, was born on 16 February 1837 in Glasgow, the first son of Philip Asher, son of Rabbi Zev Wolf of Lublin, and his wife, Hannah, a...
Singh, Diwan (1894–1983), doctor and Sikh community leader
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
P ublished online October 2013 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Medicine and Health; Sikhism. 950 words.
Singh, Diwan (1894–1983), doctor and Sikh community leader, was born in the village of Takhatpari, Punjab, India, in 1894, the eldest son of Sardar Seva Singh and his wife, Ram Rakhi Kaur....
Quest and Question: Suffering and Emulation in the LDS Community
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
August 1996; p ublished online August 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Medical Ethics; Christian Life and Practice. 0 words.
This essay draws on the formative stories of suffering in the Latter-day Saint faith community to affirm that suffering is an invitation to discern the revelation of sacred presence. The...
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Rawls and Religious Community: Ethical Decision Making in the Public Square
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
January 2007; p ublished online January 2007 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Medical Ethics; Christian Life and Practice. 0 words.
While most people may initially agree that justice is fairness, as an evangelical Protestant I argue that, for many religious comprehensive doctrines, the Rawlsean model does not possess...
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Rawls and Religious Community: Ethical Decision Making in the Public Square
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
January 2007; p ublished online January 2007 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Christian Life and Practice; Medical Ethics. 0 words.
While most people may initially agree that justice is fairness, as an evangelical Protestant I argue that, for many religious comprehensive doctrines, the Rawlsean model does not possess...
That Jagged Little Pill and the Counter-Politics of the Community of the Expelled: Sacramentality and Psychiatric Medications
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
October 2018; p ublished online October 2018 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Christian Life and Practice; Medical Ethics. 8660 words.
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This essay challenges an understandable temptation to view psychiatric pharmacologic interventions as, per se, sacramental. The instinct, I argue,...
Recognition and Social Justice: A Roman Catholic View of Christian Bioethics of Long-Term Care and Community Service
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
January 2007; p ublished online January 2007 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Medical Ethics; Christian Life and Practice. 0 words.
Contemporary Christian ethics encounters the challenge to communicate genuinely Christian normative orientations within the scientific debate in such a way as to render these orientations...
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Recognition and Social Justice: A Roman Catholic View of Christian Bioethics of Long-Term Care and Community Service
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
January 2007; p ublished online January 2007 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Christian Life and Practice; Medical Ethics. 0 words.
Contemporary Christian ethics encounters the challenge to communicate genuinely Christian normative orientations within the scientific debate in such a way as to render these orientations...
The Physician and Community of Faithful in the Integrated Care of the Mentally Ill: An Orthodox Christian Discussion of the Physician’s Moral and Professional Obligations
in Christian Bioethics
December 2016; p ublished online September 2016 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Christian Life and Practice; Medical Ethics. 5891 words.
Ritchie, Sister Frances Dorothy Lyon, (Sister Frances Dominica)
in Who's Who
P ublished online December 2007 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Religion; Medicine and Health. 174 words.
OBE 2006; DL; FRCN
Born 21 Dec. 1942; d of Thomas Norman Ritchie and Margaret Armstrong Ritchie (née Pater...
Fishberg, Maurice
in American National Biography Online
January 1999; p ublished online February 2000 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Education; Medicine and Health; Judaism and Jewish Studies. 1030 words.
Fishberg, Maurice (16 August 1872–30 August 1934), physician, anthropologist, and Jewish community worker, was born in Kamenets-Podolski, Russia, the son of Philip Fishberg and Kate...
Reflections on Medicine and Membership: A Response to Hauerwas, McKenny, Verhey, and Kinghorn
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
April 2016; p ublished online February 2016 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Christian Life and Practice; Medical Ethics. 2783 words.
A good and faithful life for the Christian involves being a member of the community of God’s people. Insofar as sickness threatens to dismember that people, it is a threat to faithfulness....
Scripture, History, and Authority in a Christian View of Abortion: A Response to Paul Simmons
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
March 1996; p ublished online March 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Medical Ethics; Christian Life and Practice. 0 words.
In this reply to Paul Simmons, it is argued that while biblical scripture should be understood as the Christian's first and final authority, it is appropriate to draw on other writings as...
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Sexual Ethics and Communal Judgments: On the Pluralism of Virtues, Values, and Practices
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
January 1998; p ublished online January 1998 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Medical Ethics; Christian Life and Practice. 0 words.
Different judgments by Christian communities on issues in sexual ethics involve different weightings of various sources of moral authority, different understandings of the normativity of...
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Spiritual Assessment and Health Care Chaplaincy
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
December 2013; p ublished online December 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Medical Ethics; Christian Life and Practice. 7695 words.
Contemporary interest in spiritual assessment is indicative both of changing attitudes to spirituality and religion in society and changed patterns of care within health care systems. These...
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Seventh-day Adventism’s Protestant Health Care Ministry in America
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
August 2015; p ublished online June 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Christian Life and Practice; Medical Ethics. 10409 words.
Seventh-day Adventist health care in the United States routinely offers clinical services that utilize the full retinue of present-day, family-building, medical technologies. Whether...
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Sexual Ethics and Communal Judgments: On the Pluralism of Virtues, Values, and Practices
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
January 1998; p ublished online January 1998 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Christian Life and Practice; Medical Ethics. 0 words.
Different judgments by Christian communities on issues in sexual ethics involve different weightings of various sources of moral authority, different understandings of the normativity of...
I Am My Brother’s Keeper: Communitarian Obligations to the Dying Person
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
March 2018; p ublished online March 2018 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Christian Life and Practice; Medical Ethics. 9741 words.
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Contemporary arguments concerning the permissibility of physician-assisted suicide [PAS], or suicide in general, often rehearse classical arguments...
Health Care, Equality, and Inequality: Christian Perspectives and Moral Disagreements
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
December 1996; p ublished online December 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Medical Ethics; Christian Life and Practice. 0 words.
Equality is a concept that is often used in health care discussions about the allocation of resources and the design of health care systems. In secular discussions and debates the concept...
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On the Content and Purview of Christian Bioethics
in Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality
January 1999; p ublished online January 1999 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Philosophy; Medical Ethics; Christian Life and Practice. 0 words.
The author argues that to explore what is distinctly Christian about Christian bioethics requires clarity about what is Christian. He distinguishes between the Christian (that which can be...
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