Partnership with the Dying

Where Medicine and Ministry Should Meet

David H. Smith (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2005
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-4466-6 (ISBN)

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What do physicians, nurses, chaplains, and social workers think about moral and religious issues in care for the dying? These professionals live with death, including many untimely and difficult deaths, on a daily basis. Based on intensive interviews with a cross sample of health care professionals, David H. Smith details how the churches could not only be supportive of these primary caregivers in dealing with end of life issues, but how they could enlist their help in informing their own congregations about the realities of death. To care for the dying is spiritually demanding work. Churches should not let health professionals struggle with religious issues—whether of patients, families, or their own—in isolation. Smith's respondents offer powerful perspectives on the issue of physician assisted suicide. Religious and theological ethics cannot afford to ignore insights and questions that come from those who deal with dying every day. Finding meaning in the face of human suffering comes less from doctrine than from living a certain kind of life. This book is a clarion call for new, practical, and vital forms of education, support, and commitment, particularly within the churches, in the cause of improving care for the dying.

David H. Smith is director of the Poynter Center at Indiana University and chair of the Episcopal Church's Task Force on Ethics and the New Genetics.

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction and Method Chapter 3 Conversation Partners Chapter 4 Explaining and Justifying Chapter 5 Deciding for Death Chapter 6 Community and Compromise Chapter 7 Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.5.2005
Sprache	englisch
Maße	146 x 212 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	0-7425-4466-4 / 0742544664
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-4466-6 / 9780742544666
Zustand	Neuware