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Ethical and Legal Issues in Neurology
Ronald M. Green
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Chapter 6. Religion and medical ethics
出版Elsevier Inc. Chapters, 2014-01-09
主題Medical / Neurology
ISBN012808068X9780128080689
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=R9NzDAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Religious traditions of medical ethics tend to differ from more secular approaches by stressing limitations on autonomous decision-making, by more positively valuing the experience of suffering, and by drawing on beliefs and values that go beyond empiric verification. I trace the impact of these differences for some of the world’s great religious traditions with respect to four issues: (1) religious conscientious objection to medical treatments; (2) end-of life decision-making, including euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and the withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatments; (3) definitions of moral personhood (defining life’s beginning and end); and (4) human sexuality.