Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor: A Handbook for Clergy and Health-Care Professionals

by Robert D. Orr

Book Overview

Clinical ethics is a relatively new discipline within medicine, generated not so much by the "Can we . . . ?" questions of fact and prognosis that physicians usually address, but primarily by the more uncomfortable gray areas having to do with "Should we . . . ?" questions:

Should we use a feeding tube for Mom?
How should we deal with our baby about to be born with life-threatening anomalies?
Should our son be taken off dialysis,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080286404X
• ISBN13: 9780802864048
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 515 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"