{"product_id":"suffering-presence-theological-reflections-on-medicine-the-mentally-handicapped-and-the-church-hardback-9780268017217","title":"Suffering Presence; Theological Reflections on Medicine, the Mentally Handicapped, and the Church (Hardback) 9780268017217","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSuffering Presence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTheological Reflections on Medicine, the Mentally Handicapped, and the Church\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStanley Hauerwas (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780268017217\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 April 1986\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e233 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hauerwas's overriding concern in this text is with the contribution theological ethics can make to moral dilemmas in medicine....The text is a most provocative collection of essays and will become standard reading for all medical ethicists who take the theological voice seriously.\" —\u003cem\u003eEthics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Hauerwas projects a certain view of medicine, and leaves the ethical implications to emerge from that. He sees medicine as a moral art, and says that ' fundamental to understanding the moral art of medicine is the willingness of patient and physician alike to be present to one another during times of suffering.' He goes on to argue that a human medicine of this sort is 'impossible to sustain in a society which lacks the moral capacity to care for the mentally handicapped.'\" —\u003cem\u003eStudies in Christian Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As theologian, not historian, Hauerwas offers his own particular analysis and synthesis of Christianity, while bracketing the diversity of emphases that characterize the multiple expressions of Christianity.\" —\u003cem\u003eHastings Center Report\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Hauerwas is an acute observer of the fundamental dilemma of contemporary medicine, a dilemma largely unrecognised within the profession itself. He perceives the essentially moral charater of the medical enterprise and the traumatic consequences of the conteporary moral anarchy for the profession with has grown up in the world of settled values.\" —\u003cem\u003eScottish Journal of Theology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"According to Hauerwas, medical technologies and children born with disabilities challenge the moral commitments of a community. How Christians understand the meaning of suffering is directly connected to how we are to be present with the suffering of others.\" —\u003cem\u003eJournal of the Society of Christian Ethics\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Stanley Hauerwas's book is in the genre of books like Ivan Illich's \u003cem\u003eMedical Nemesis\u003c\/em\u003e and Paul Ramsey's \u003cem\u003ePatient as Person\u003c\/em\u003e. It is a radical, fresh, and impassioned call to abandon the tedious ruts of faddish 'medical ethics' and return to the enlivening roots of the perennial faith-born medical wisdom.\" —\u003cem\u003eJournal of Religion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSuffering Presence\u003c\/i\u003e, ethicist Stanley Hauerwas delivers a well-formed theological perspective that illuminates the moral life, particularly medical care and the care of children and the handicapped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520468644120,"sku":"9780268017217","price":57.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/suffering-presence-theological-reflections-on-medicine-the-mentally-handicapped-and-the-church-hardback-9780268017217","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}