Embodiment, Morality, and Medicine - Theology and Medicine 1995 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface; M. A. Farley. Part I: Perspectives on Embodiment. 1. The Body and the Bible: Life in the Flesh According to the Spirit; A. Verhey. 2. Embodiment and Ambivalence: a Jewish Feminist Perspective; J. Plaskow. 3. Islamic Perspectives on the Human Body: Legal, Social and Spiritual Considerations; V. J. Hoffman-Ladd. Part II: Practical Applications. 4. Genetic Research and the Elusive Body; J. F. Keenan S. J. 5. Abortion: Embodiment and Prenatal Development; C. A. Tauer. 6. Ritual Recognition of Abortion: Japanese Budddhist Practices and U. S. Jewish and Christian Proposals; J. O'Connor. 7. Whose Bodies? Which Selves? Appeals to Embodiment in Assessments of Reproductive Technology; P. Lauritzen. 8. Embodiment and Organ Transplants: On Giving and Taking our Bodies More Seriously; P. McCormick. 9. African Americans and Organ Donation: Reflections on Religion, Ethics and Embodiment; C. J. Sanders. 10. The Fridge': Health Care and the Disembodiment of Women; K. Lebacqz. 11. Marks of the Body: Embodiment and Diminishment; C. S. Campbell. 12. The Body Suffering: Illness and Disability; J. T. Carmody, D. L. Carmody. 13. Embodiment' as Moral Critique: a Christian Social Perspective; L. S. Cahill. Index.

Contributor Bio:  Cahill, Lisa Sowle Lisa Sowle Cahill is J. Donald Monan, SJ, Professor of Theology at Boston College. Her most recent publications include Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Bioethics and the Common Good (2004) and Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice and Change (2005). She is currently a member of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, the Advisory Board of the Public Religion Research Institute, the Board of Directors of the international journal Concilium and the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. Contributor Bio:  Farley, Margaret A Margaret A. Farley is Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut. The recipient of eleven honorary degrees, the John Courtney Murray Award for Excellence in Theology, and a Luce Fellowship in Theology, Margaret Farley is a past president of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Catholic Theological Society of America.