| Description |
xiii, 223 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Theology and medicine ; v. 6 |
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Theology and medicine ; v. 6
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| Contents |
Preface / Margaret A. Farley -- The Body and the Bible: Life in the Flesh According to the Spirit / Allen Verhey -- Embodiment and Ambivalence: A Jewish Feminist Perspective / Judith Plaskow -- Islamic Perspectives on the Human Body: Legal, Social and Spiritual Considerations / Valerie J. Hoffman -- Genetic Research and the Elusive Body / James F. Keenan -- Abortion: Embodiment and Prenatal Development / Carol A. Tauer -- Ritual Recognition of Abortion: Japanese Buddhist Practices and U.S. Jewish and Christian Proposals / June O'Connor -- Whose Bodies? Which Selves? Appeals to Embodiment in Assessments of Reproductive Technology / Paul Lauritzen -- Embodiment and Organ Transplants: On Giving and Taking Our Bodies More Seriously / Patrick McCormick -- African Americans and Organ Donation: Reflections on Religion, Ethics and Embodiment / Cheryl J. Sanders -- The "Fridge": Health Care and the Disembodiment of Women / Karen Lebacqz |
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Marks of the Body: Embodiment and Diminishment / Courtney S. Campbell -- The Body Suffering: Illness and Disability / John Tully Carmody and Denise Lardner Carmody -- "Embodiment" and Moral Critique: A Christian Social Perspective / Lisa Sowle Cahill |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human body -- Religious aspects.
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Medical ethics.
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| Author |
Cahill, Lisa Sowle.
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Farley, Margaret A.
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| LC no. |
94046674 |
| ISBN |
079233342X (acid-free paper) |
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