05 medical ethics | Theology and Ethics https://www.theologyethics.com Resources and reflections on theology and ethics Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:44:57 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 A Case Against Permitting Intentional Medical Killing (Biggar, 2009) https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/01/06/a-case-against-permitting-intentional-medical-killing-2009/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/01/06/a-case-against-permitting-intentional-medical-killing-2009/#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:19:07 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=3780 [embeddoc url="http://klice.co.uk/uploads/Ethics%20in%20Brief/Biggar%20v14.1%20pub.pdf" download="all" viewer="google"]

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2014/01/06/a-case-against-permitting-intentional-medical-killing-2009/feed/ 0 The Physician as Political Actor: Late Abortion and the Strictures of Liberal Moral Discourse (Brian Brock, 2006) https://www.theologyethics.com/2013/12/14/the-physician-as-political-actor-late-abortion-and-the-strictures-of-liberal-moral-discourse-2006/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2013/12/14/the-physician-as-political-actor-late-abortion-and-the-strictures-of-liberal-moral-discourse-2006/#respond Sat, 14 Dec 2013 18:44:39 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=3485 By examining the range of factors pressing on medical professionals faced with a decision in a case of late-term abortion, it becomes apparent that the theological resources ruled out of bounds by the standard account can be
considered an essential part of a truly liberating and properly supple moral account of medical decision-making. Close attention to the social, political and legal context of contemporary medicine reveals that the standard account of medical ethics, Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Beauchamp and Childress, despite its universalist aspirations, disempowers rather than empowers moral decision-making by medical professionals.

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2013/12/14/the-physician-as-political-actor-late-abortion-and-the-strictures-of-liberal-moral-discourse-2006/feed/ 0 Utility, Prudence and Care: Three concepts at the heart of the practice of clinical medicine (O’Donovan, 2012) https://www.theologyethics.com/2013/12/14/utility-prudence-and-care/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2013/12/14/utility-prudence-and-care/#respond Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:02:52 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=3448 Kolvenbach Centre Lecture from Thursday, 15 November, 2012.

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]]> https://www.theologyethics.com/2013/12/14/utility-prudence-and-care/feed/ 0 A Right To Health? (O’Donovan, 2010) https://www.theologyethics.com/2013/12/12/a-right-to-health/ https://www.theologyethics.com/2013/12/12/a-right-to-health/#respond Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:59:41 +0000 http://www.theologyethics.com/?p=3360 If we refer to it as a slogan, that need not be in a pejorative sense.   It means simply that “the right to health” does useful duty as a shorthand reference.   A cluster of concerns are summed up compactly;  it gestures out towards a whole line of argument remaining to be traced.   If we discuss “the right to health” as a slogan, we do not discuss anything we are actually doing or proposing to do.   …

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