A Virtue-Based Defense of Perinatal Hospice

ISBN-13: 9781032177588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 196 str.

Aaron D. Cobb

Opis

This book develops a virtue-based defense of the value of perinatal hospice. Engaging with important themes from the work of MacIntyre and Adams, it shows how perinatal hospice manifests virtues crucial to meeting the needs of families in these difficult circumstances.

Spis treści

1. Toward a Virtue-Based Defense of Perinatal Hospice











2. Virtue, Acknowledged Dependence, and Common Projects of Care














3. Life-Limiting Diagnoses and the Virtue of Hospitality














4. Futility and the Virtue of Hope














5. Isolation and the Virtue of Solidarity














6. Grief and the Virtue of Compassion














7. Virtuous Projects of Social, Structural, and Institutional Reform

O autorze

Aaron D. Cobb is associate professor of philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. His recent scholarship has focused on moral and intellectual virtues. He is the author of Loving Samuel: Suffering, Dependence, and the Calling of Love, a philosophical and theological memoir on the life and death of his son.