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On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in
Medical Ethics, 3rd Edition
M Therese Lysaught
Marquette University
Joseph J. Kotva Jr.
Stephen E. Lammers
Allen Verhey
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On Moral Medicine
Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics
THIRD EDITION
Edited by
M. Therese Lysaught & Joseph J. Kotva Jr.
with
Stephen E. Lammers & Allen Verhey
WILLIAM
B.
EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN / CAMBRIDGE,
U.K.
Contents
I
Preface to the Third Edition
M. Therese Lysaught and Joseph f. Kotva Jr.
xiii
Preface to the Second Edition
Stephen E. Lammers and Allen Verhey
xvi
I:
Preface to the First Edition
Stephen E. Lammers and Allen Verhey
xvii
METHOD
CHAPTER ONE
RELIGION AND MEDICINE
1
2
The Secularization of American Medicine
Roy Branson
A New Synthesis: Alternative Medicine's
Challenge to Mainstream Medicine and
Traditional Christianity
Sidney Callahan
3 Illness, the Problem of Evil, and the
Analogical Structure of Healing: On the
Difference Christianity Makes in Bioethics
George Khushf
4 Money and the Medical Profession
William F. May
5 Conceptualizing "Religion": How Language
Shapes and Constrains Knowledge in the
Study of Religion and Health
Daniel E. Hall, Harold G. Koenig,
and Keith G. Meador
6 Salvation and Health: Why Medicine
Needs the Church
Stanley Hauerwas
CHAPTER TWO
THEOLOGY AND MEDICAL ETHICS
3
5
13
52
7 Theology Confronts Technology
and the Life Sciences
James M. Gustafson
55
8 Theologians and Bioethics:
Some History and a Proposal
Lisa Sowle Cahill
60
9 European-American Ethos and
Principlism: An African-American
Challenge
Cheryl J. Sanders
21
29
10
11
35
12
43
v
Bioethics in a Liberationist Key
Marcio Fabri dos Anjos
Bioethics and Religion: Some
Unscientific Footnotes
Stephen E. Lammers
91
The Bible and Bioethics: Some
Problems and a Proposal
Allen Verhey
97
CONTENTS
II:
CHRISTIANITY AND THE SOCIAL PRACTICE OF HEALTH CARE
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHRISTIANITY AND THE SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY OF HEALTH CARE
THE CHRISTIAN SOCIAL
PRACTICE OF HEALTH CARE
117
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13 General Introduction and Part One of Ethical
and Religious Directives for Catholic Health
Care Services, Fourth Edition
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
14 The Corporate Physician's Oath
21 Listening to Women of Color with
Breast Cancer: Theological and Ethical
Insights for u.S. Healthcare
and
"Keeping It Real" While Staying Out
of the "Loony Bin": Social Ethics for
Healthcare Systems
Aana Vigen
120
123
David Schiedermayer
15 Sick of Being Poor
123
People in a Small Kentucky Town Pool
Their Talents to Solve the Access Problem
William R. Grimes
l26
Willard M. Swartley
17 The Christian and Anabaptist Legacy
in Healthcare
John D. Roth
23 Parish Nursing: A New Specialty
l28
185
188
Abigail Rian Evans
24 Austin Heights and AIDS
18 Catholic Social Teaching and the
199
Kyle Childress
Allocation of Healthcare
130
The Catholic Bishops' Joint Bioethics Committee
25 Reform and Rationing: Reflections on
Health Care in Light of Catholic
Social Teaching
B. Andrew Lustig
19 Health, Healing, and Social Justice: Insights
from Liberation Theology
Paul Farmer
165
22 Starting a Free Clinic in a Rural Area:
Teresa Maldonado
16 The Bible and Christian Convictions
162
139
201
26 A Summary of Catholic Principles for
20 A Body without Borders
15 2
Health-Care Justice
Philip S. Keane
Joel Shuman and Brian Volck
III:
211
PATIENTS AND PROFESSIONALS
30 The Doctor's Oath Swearing It
CHAPTER FIVE
THE PROFESSIONS
27 Honor the PhYSician
2 19
29 The Hippocratic Oath Insofar as a
Christian May Swear It
224
Allen Verhey
222
31 The Physician's Covenant
Sirach 38:1-15
28 The Hippocratic Oath
and a Christian
233
William F. May
223
32 The Nurse's Profession
246
Florence Nightingale
224
33 A Christian Vision of Nursing and Persons
Mary Molewyk Doornbos, Ruth E. Groenhout,
Kendra G. Hotz, and Cheryl Brandsen
vi
249
CONTENTS
34 Hospital Chaplaincy as Agapeic
Intervention
260
Joseph f. Kotva Jr.
47 Reflections on the Moral Status of
the Pre-Embryo
341
Thomas A . Shannon and Allan B. Wolter
35 Spiritual Morphine: The Delusory Hope
of Dying on Your Own Terms
Kristina Robb Dover
36 The Christian Pastor's Role in Medical
Ethics: In the Pew and at the Bedside
269
48 Three Views on the Preimplantation
Embryo
352
Michael R. Panicola
272
49 Again, Who Is a Person?
Oliver O'Donovan
367
Joseph J. Kotva Jr.
50 Who Is My Neighbor? The Good Samaritan
as a Source for Theological Anthropology
Ian A. McFarland
372
CHA PTER SIX
THE PATIENT-PHYSICIAN
RELATIONSHIP
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37 Strangers or Friends? A Proposal for a New
Spirituality-in-Medicine Ethic
Farr A. Curlin and Daniel E. Hall
38 Daniel
Margaret E. Mohrmann
39 AIDS and the Professions of Healing:
A Brief Inquiry
52 Terra es animata: On Having a Life
Gilbert Meilaender
379
29 1
53 Who/se We Are: Baptism as Personhood
Keith G. Meador and Joel James Shuman
387
294
CHAPTER EIGHT
EMBODIMENT
54 Genesis 2:7; John 1:1-4, 14;
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
312
42 The Will to Be Healthy
Karl Barth
320
325
Richard f. Mouw
PERSONHOOD
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44 Luke 10:25-37
397
56 Bioethics, the Body, and the Legacy
of Bacon
Gerald P. McKenny
398
57 "Embodiment" and Moral Critique:
A Christian Social Perspective
Lisa Sowle Cahill
410
59 Organ Transplants: Death,
Dis-organ-ization, and the Need for
Religious Ritual
33 1
334
397
55 Ode on a Plastic Stapes
Chad Walsh
58 Health Is Membership
Wendell Berry
CHAPTER SEVEN
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300
41 Empowerment in the Clinical Setting
Karen Lebacqz
43 Thorn-in-the-Flesh Decision Making:
A Christian Overview of the Ethics
of Treatment
377
286
Stephen E. Lammers
40 Exousia: Healing with Authority in the
Christian Tradition
Daniel P. Sulmasy
51 Must a Patient Be a Person to Be a Patient?
Or, My Uncle Charlie Is Not Much of a
Person but He Is Still My Uncle Charlie
Stanley Hauerwas
419
4 25
Allen D. Verhey
45 Four Indicators of Humanhood The Enquiry Matures
Joseph F. Fletcher
334
46 Preface to The Patient as Person
Paul Ramsey
337
60 Harvesting the Living? Separating
"Brain Death" and Organ Transplantation
Courtney S. Campbell
vii
437
CONTENTS
64 Stories and Suffering
Margaret E. Mohrmann
CHAPTER NINE
CARE OF PATIENTS
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445
61 Surgical Ward
W. H. Auden
447
62 School of Suffering
Bradley Hanson
448
63 AIDS and the Church
Earl E. Shelp and Ronald H. Sunderland
453
65 Patient Suffering and the Anointing
of the Sick
M. Therese Lysaught
66 Practicing Patience: How Christians
Should Be Sick
Stanley Hauerwas and Charles Pinches
475
IV: VULNERABLE PERSONS
75 Why Do We Want to Be Healthy? Medicine,
Autonomous Individualism, and the
Community of Faith
547
Dennis Sansom
CHAPTER TEN
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67 Darkness
Kathryn Greene-McCreight
490
76 The Language of Death: Theology and
Economics in Conflict
D. Stephen Long
68 Psychology as Faith
Robert Coles
77 Ruth's Resolve: What Jesus' GreatGrandmother May Teach about
Bioethics and Care
Amy Laura Hall
69 Between the Priestly Doctor and the
Myth of Mental Illness
Ian S. Evison
70 Crazy in the Streets
Paul S. Appelbaum
510
71 Afflicting the Afflicted: Total Institutions
William F. May
516
72 Community and Friendship:
The Church as a Liberating Community
John Swinton
78 Memory and Canonicity
David Keck
568
CHAPTER TWELVE
52 3
PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
AGING AND THE ELDERLY
551
533
73 The Urgency Dilemma: Is Life Extension
Research a Temptation or a Test?
Aubrey D. N. 1. de Grey
535
74 Age-Based Rationing of Life-Sustaining
Health Care
John F. Kilner
539
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79 Encountering the Disabled God
Nancy L. Eiesland
587
80 Human Dignity in the Absence of Agency
Hans S. Reinders
59 0
81 Unremitting Compassion: The Moral
Psychology of Parenting Children with
Genetic Disorders
Richard B. Steele
82 Love witlIout Boundaries: Theological
Reflections on Parenting a Child with
Disabilities
Thomas E. Reynolds
viii
59 8
605
CONTENTS
83 Welcoming Unexpected Guests
to the Banquet
Brett Webb-Mitchell
84 The Body of Christ Has Down's Syndrome:
Theological Reflections on Vulnerability,
Disability, and Graceful Communities
John Swinton
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
6 14
EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH
AND "THERAPEUTIC" CLONING
89 A Plea for Beneficence:
Reframing the Embryo Debate
Ted Peters and Gaymon Bennett
617
666
90 A Theologian's Brief
Reverend David Jones et al.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
91 The Ethics of Human Stem Cell Research
680
Gene Outka
RESEARCH ETHICS AND
EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS
92 Stem Cells and Social Ethics:
Some Catholic Contributions
Lisa Sowle Cahill
85 Vivisection
C. S. Lewis
93 Price to Pay
86 Philosophical Reflections on
Amy Laura Hall
Experimenting with Human Subjects
Hans Jonas
94 Cloning the Human Body
87 Globalizing Human Subjects Research
Adriana Petryna
88 The Use of Zairian Children in HIV
Vaccine Experimentation: A Cross-Cultural
Study in Medical Ethics
Thomas A. Nairn
706
Stanley Hauerwas and Joel Shuman
95 What Would You Do If ... ?
Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
and the Defense of the Innocent
M. Therese Lysaught
653
V: THE BEGINNING OF LIFE
101 Bioethics and the Church: Technology,
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
LIFE AND ITS SANCTITY
Martyrdom, and the Moral Significance
of the Ordinary
Chris K. Huebner
7 21
96 Genesis 1:26-27; Psalm 8; Matthew 6:25-32
72 3
97 Respect for Life
724
754
Karl Barth
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
98 Alien Dignity: The Legacy of
Helmut Thielicke for Bioethics
Karen Lebacqz
99 Toward Freedom from Value
Richard Stith
CHILDREN
72 7
102 Mark 10:13-16
734
103 What Are Children For?
Joel James Shuman and Brian Volck
100 Suffering, the Body, and Christianity:
The Early Christians Lived the Theological
Basis of Catholic Health Care
James F. Keenan
104 Introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann:
By the Dominican Nuns Who Took Care
of Her
Flannery O'Connor
748
ix
770
CONTENTS
105 Being Mickey's Doctor
Margaret E. Mohrmann
116 The Ethical Challenge of the New
Reproductive Technology
774
858
Sidney Callahan
106 Pastoral Concerns: Parental Anxiety
and Other Issues of Character
785
Joseph f. Kotva Jr.
107 Medicine and the Birth of Defective
Children: Approaches of the Ancient World
117 Faith and Infertility
Maura A. Ryan
865
118 A.R.T., Ethics, and the Bible
870
787
Allen Verhey
796
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Darrel W. Amundsen
108 The Death of Infant Doe:
Jesus and the Neonates
Allen Verhey
ABORTION
894
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109 Biblical Faith and the Loss of Children
Bruce C. Birch
801
119 Theology and the Morality of
Procreative Choice
897
Beverly Wildung Harrison
120 The Catholic Legacy and Abortion:
A Debate
Daniel C. Maguire and James T. Burtchaell
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CONTRACEPTION
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110 Parents and Children
Karl Barth
121 Ahead to Our Past: Abortion and
Christian Texts
808
907
917
Michael f. Gorman
111 "Human Life" and Human Love
813
122 Women of Color and Reproductive Choice:
Combating the Population Paradigm
James T. Burtchaell
112 Beyond the Liberal/Conservative
Divide on Contraception: The Wisdom of
Practitioners of Natural Family Planning
and Artificial Birth Control
Julie Hanlon Rubio
113 Procreation, the Development of Peoples,
and the Final Destiny of Humanity
David M. McCarthy
114 The Pill Is Like ... DDT?
An Agrarian Perspective on
Pharmaceutical Birth Control
924
Andy Smith
12 3 Abortion and the Sexual Agenda:
A Case for Pro-Life Feminism
Sidney Callahan
818
124 Abortion, Theologically Understood
Stanley Hauerwas
830
125 The Question of Abortion: Christian
Virtue and Government Legislation
938
945
953
Joseph f. Kotva Jr.
840
Eliz abeth Bahnson
CHAPTER TWENTY
GENETICS
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES
115 Whose Bodies? Which Selves?
Appeals to Embodiment in Assessments
of Reproductive Technology
Paul Lauritzen
126 Mother and Father
David L. Schiedermayer
9 68
12 7 Ethical Standards for Genetic Intervention
James c. Peterson
9 69
l28 Justice and Genetics: Whose Holy Grail?
Maura Ryan
973
850
x
CONTENTS
129 Moral and Religious Implications of
Genetic Control
Paul Ramsey
132 That Deep Surface: The Human Genome
Project and the Death of the Human
Bronislaw Szerszynski
981
13 0 To Form a More Perfect Union: Mainline
Protestantism and the Popularization
of Eugenics
Amy Laura Hall
133 Desperately Seeking Perfection: Christian
Discipleship and Medical Genetics
Joel Shuman
985
134 "Playing God" and Invoking a Perspective
13 1 The Human Genome Project as
Soteriological Project
Robert Song
VI:
1003
1009
1016
Allen Verhey
995
THE END OF LIFE
143 The Case for Physician-Assisted Suicide?
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
DEATH AND ITS (IN)DIGNITY
102 7
144 Reflection
135 Psalm 88; Psalm 22; Romans 8:18-39;
1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 36-57
1030
136 Lament for a Son
1032
Karen Lebacqz
145 A Dignified Dying
Hans Kung
Nicholas Wolterstorff
146 Rational Suicide and Reasons for Living
137 The Sacral Power of Death in
Contemporary Experience
William F. May
138 The Indignity of "Death with Dignity"
10 97
Stanley Hauerwas
1033
147 "Whose Life Is It, Anyway?"
Ours, That's Whose!
Gloria Maxson
1043
Paul Ramsey
139 Keeping Body and Soul Together
1085
James F. Keenan
110 3
1053
Oliver O'Donovan
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
140 Dying Well in Historical Perspective:
The Ars Moriendi Tradition of the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Christopher P. Vogt
ACCEPTING DEATH
106 5
148 The Case of Baby Rena
1108
Vigen Guroian
141 Learning How to Die Well:
Lessons from the Ancient Church
Vigen Guroian
1105
149 Catholic Spirituality and Medical
1071
Interventions in Dying
James F. Bresnahan
1113
150 The Catholic Tradition on Forgoing
Life Support
Kevin D. O'Rourke
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHOOSING DE,ATH
1079
151 Having Enough Faith Not to Be Healed
112 7
John D. Brunt
142 Physician-Assisted Suicide: Flight
from Compassion
Richard A. McCormick
1118
1082
152 House Calls on Cardinal Jackson
David Schiedermayer
xi
113 0
CONTENTS
153 God Will Find a Way
155 What Shall We Do with Norman?
1134
An Experiment in Communal Discernment
Curtis W. Freeman
Margaret E. Mohrmann
1141
154 Who Decides?
156 Love Your Enemies:
Gilbert Meilaender
Toward a Christo form Bioethic
M. Therese Lysaught
xii
1153