Nathan Carlin

Pastoral Aesthetics (eBook, ePUB)

A Theological Perspective on Principlist Bioethics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is often said that bioethics emerged from theology in the 1960s, and that since then it has grown into a secular enterprise, yielding to other disciplines and professions such as philosophy and law. During the 1970s and 1980s, a kind of secularism in biomedicine and related areas was encouraged by the need for a neutral language that could provide common ground for guiding clinical practice and research protocols. Tom Beauchamp and James Childress, in their pivotal The Principles of Biomedical Ethics, achieved this neutrality through an approach that came to be known as "principlist bioethics." In Pastoral Aesthetics, Nathan Carlin critically engages Beauchamp and Childress by revisiting the role of religion in bioethics and argues that pastoral theologians can enrich moral imagination in bioethics by cultivating an aesthetic sensibility that is theologically-informed, psychologically-sophisticated, therapeutically-oriented, and experientially-grounded. To achieve these ends, Carlin employs Paul Tillich's method of correlation by positioning four principles of bioethics with four images of pastoral care, drawing on a range of sources, including painting, fiction, memoir, poetry, journalism, cultural studies, clinical journals, classic cases in bioethics, and original pastoral care conversations. What emerges is a form of interdisciplinary inquiry that will be of special interest to bioethicists, theologians, and chaplains.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190270179
• Artikelnr.: 55356645

Autorenporträt

Nathan Carlin, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), is Associate Professor in the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), where he directs the Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration for medical students. Dr. Carlin has published many articles and five previous books. He also holds the Samuel Karff Chair.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Principlist Bioethics and Pastoral Theology
Chapter 2: Respect for Autonomy and the Living Human Document
Chapter 3: Nonmaleficence and the Circus Clown
Chapter 4: Beneficence and the Diagnostician
Chapter 5: Justice and the Living Human Web
Epilogue