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Bioethics, Religion, and Public Policy: Intersections, Interactions, and Solutions

verfasst von: Peter A. Kahn

Erschienen in: Journal of Religion and Health | Ausgabe 5/2016

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Abstract

Bioethics in America positions itself as a totalizing discipline, capable of providing guidance to any individual within the boundaries of a health or medical setting. Yet the religiously observant or those driven by spiritual values have not universally accepted decisions made by “secular” bioethics, and as a result, religious bioethical thinkers and adherents have developed frameworks and rich counter-narratives used to fend off encroachment by policies perceived as threatening. This article uses brain death in Jewish law, the case of Jahi McMath, and vaccination refusal to observe how the religious system of ethics is presently excluded from bioethics and its implications.

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Titel: Bioethics, Religion, and Public Policy: Intersections, Interactions, and Solutions
verfasst von: Peter A. Kahn
Publikationsdatum: 02.11.2015
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of Religion and Health / Ausgabe 5/2016
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-015-0144-0

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