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Christian health care professionals in our secular and pluralistic society often face uncertainty about the place religious faith holds in today''s medical practice. Through an examination of a virtue-based ethics, this book proposes a theological view of medical ethics that helps the Christian physician reconcile faith, reason, and professional duty.

Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma trace the history of virtue in moral thought, and they examine current debate about a virtue ethic''s place in contemporary bioethics. Their proposal balances theological ethics, based on the virtues of faith, hope, and charity, with contemporary medical ethics, based on the principles of beneficence, justice, and autonomy. The result is a theory of clinical ethics that centers on the virtue of charity and is manifest in practical moral decisions.

Using Christian bioethical principles, the authors address today''s divisive issues in medicine. For health care providers and all thos

The Christian Virtues in Medical Practice

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      Publisher: Georgetown University Press
      Publication Date: 4/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780878405664, 978-0878405664
      ISBN10: 0878405666
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Christian health care professionals in our secular and pluralistic society often face uncertainty about the place religious faith holds in today''s medical practice. Through an examination of a virtue-based ethics, this book proposes a theological view of medical ethics that helps the Christian physician reconcile faith, reason, and professional duty.

      Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma trace the history of virtue in moral thought, and they examine current debate about a virtue ethic''s place in contemporary bioethics. Their proposal balances theological ethics, based on the virtues of faith, hope, and charity, with contemporary medical ethics, based on the principles of beneficence, justice, and autonomy. The result is a theory of clinical ethics that centers on the virtue of charity and is manifest in practical moral decisions.

      Using Christian bioethical principles, the authors address today''s divisive issues in medicine. For health care providers and all thos

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