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Religious Perspectives on Bioethics
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First published in 2004. Religious Perspectives in Bioethics surveys recent bioethics discussion in thirteen religious traditions. Christian contributions include chapters on Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, the Episcopal, German Protestant, and Baptist traditions, Reformed Christianity, and the Latter Day Saints. The volume also includes chapters on Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Daoism.
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Index
Abel, F., 18, 20
abortion, ix, xii, 2, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 17, 19, 20, 25, 27, 28, 37, 38, 43, 55, 56, 58–60, 65–67, 71, 73–77, 83, 85–88, 90–93, 101–110, 113, 114, 117, 119–122, 127, 128, 137, 138, 145, 147–150, 153, 162, 163, 179, 182, 183, 187, 188, 199, 200, 208, 211, 217, 230
partial-birth, 102
Abraham, 80, 82, 155, 156
abstinence, 58, 73, 93, 101, 125, 190
access to health care, 49, 169
accountability, 57, 82, 85, 111, 121, 123, 125, 155
action vs. omission, 12
Adam, 7
Adams, Maldon Browning, 107
adultery, 26, 27, 99, 136, 161, 196, 213
Africa, 31, 154
afterlife, 57, 61, 62, 64, 65, 71, 74–76
agape, 48
Agapius, Saint, 30
agriculture, 92, 193
AIDS, 44, 49, 93, 170, 185
Akal Takht, 216
al-Bar, Ali, 167
alcohol, 45, 170, 193, 215
Alexandria, 30
Algra, E., 230
allocation, 2, 25, 85, 112, 143
allowing to die, 13
alms-levy, 156
Al-Shafi’i, 157, 158
altruism, 218
Alvare, H., 11, 18
Alzheimer’s disease, 204, 215
Ame...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Text, Tradition, Authority, and Method in Religious Bioethics
- Roman Catholic Bioethics
- Orthodox Christian Bioethics: Medical Morality in the Mind of the Fathers
- Bioethics in the Episcopal Tradition
- Gospel Truth and Societal Consensus: Recent Bioethics Statements by the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD)
- Reformed Perspectives in Bioethics
- Southern Baptists and Bioethics
- Authority and Agency: Policies and Principles in Latter-day Saints Bioethics
- Jewish Bioethics
- Jewish Perspectives on Embryo and Stem Cell Research
- Islamic Bioethics
- Buddhism and Bioethics
- Hindu Bioethics
- Sikh Perspectives on Bioethics
- Daoism and Bioethics: Daode Jin’s Doctrine of Naturalness and the Principle of Non-Action
- Notes on Contributors
- Index