Counseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine : Empowering Discernment

ISBN-13: 9780789030443 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 348 str.

Patricia Elyse Terrell

Opis

Counseling Pregnancy, Politics, adn Biomedicine explains the mystery of the God-human relationship so ministers, priests, and pastors can follow the ethics and mechanics of counseling human reproductive health and be informed on issues of religion, medical experimentation, and politics. The unique book is a teaching and a desktop reference for clergy persons and pastoral care minsters, providing them with information on the sensitive and intimate topic of reproductive health from a Christian worldview so tehy can advise and empower congregation members to make thoughtful decisions about health care.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Goals of the Book. Part I: Information to Equip Decisions.  Humankind Created in the Image of God, Imago Dei: The Passion and Politics of Human Biology. Ethics: Has Morality Become a Maze or a Prism? What Politics? Which Legal System?  Medical Experimentation and Reproduction.  Part II: Applying the Information to Issues in Reproduction. Issues Faced by the Expectant Mother. The Moral Status of the Embryo Appendix. Legal Documents and Cases.  Notes. Sources Consulted. Index.  

O autorze

Patricia Elyse Terrell