Children, Theology, and Bioethics

Beyond Autonomy

Jessica Bratt Carle (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5261-2 (ISBN)

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When it comes to children, bioethics has primarily focused on one thing: their lack of autonomy. Through theological insight into vulnerability, dependence, and agency, Jessica Bratt Carle, a pediatric chaplain and clinical ethicist, invites readers to attune and respond more fully to children in the moral landscape of healthcare.

Children remain at the periphery when bioethics envisions autonomous adults as normative human beings. Children, Theology, and Bioethics: Beyond Autonomy explores the full humanity of children, inviting greater recognition of their place in the moral landscape of healthcare. Theological insights into vulnerability, dependence, and agency summon appreciation for the experiences of pediatric patients and reveal what it means to be human at every age. Interdisciplinary dialogue between bioethics, childhood studies, and pastoral theology is woven throughout with illustrative clinical vignettes from Bratt Carle’s experience as a pediatric chaplain and clinical ethicist.

Jessica Bratt Carle is a Presbyterian minister, pediatric chaplain, and clinical ethicist.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Situating Pediatric Patients in Clinical Ethics
Chapter 2: A Theological Response to Secularized Bioethics
Chapter 3: Vulnerability: Multivalent Susceptibilities and Possibilities
Chapter 4: Dependence: Human Norm, Not Deficit
Chapter 5: Agency: Modes of Expression and Influence
Chapter 6: Childhood as Lifelong Vantage Point

Erscheinungsdatum	28.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-6669-5261-3 / 1666952613
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-5261-2 / 9781666952612
Zustand	Neuware