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Auteur(s) : Campbell, Courtney S. (1956-....)
Titre(s) : Mormonism, medicine, and bioethics [Texte imprimé] / Courtney S. Campbell
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-288 p.) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 255-280. Index
"Books have their origins in conversations and seek to extend and expand those conversations
over time and with different audiences. The conversations that have culminated in
this book were initially stimulated through a research project at The Hastings Center
on the role of religious voices in the professional fields of bioethical inquiry.
Those professional conversations have continued throughout my academic career as a
member of various institutional ethics committees, organizational ethics task forces,
and in local, state, and national public policy settings. The professional context
of bioethics conversations can sometimes miss the richness of conversations that occur
in the classroom and with various communities, including family members, friends,
and religious and civic communities. These conversations provide an experiential depth,
a groundedness in the lives and stories of persons, which augments and corrects the
professionalized perspectives. I have been particularly fortunate and appreciative
of opportunities to bridge the academic and professional with the personalized and
communal through conversations about the ethical commitments and moral culture cultivated
by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon). I was invited
to develop an overview essay on "Bioethics in Mormonism" for the professional reference
work, Encyclopedia of Bioethics (3rd ed., 2004), and some years later received my
first invitation to make a presentation on "LDS Ethics" in an academic setting at
the University of Virginia. This book is the outgrowth of these many conversations
and seeks to advance my communal bridging. My aim in this book is to begin bridging
these various intersections between the LDS religious community and its moral culture,
the professional fields of bioethics, and practical decision-making. This work seeks
to be a catalyst for expanding discourse within the interdisciplinary field of Mormon
studies to include ethics and bioethics. Ethics has not been a well-developed area
in Mormon studies, in contrast to studies in LDS history, theology, or literature.
To remedy this oversight, I present a substantive interpretation of the sources, theological
background, and moral principles of LDS ethics. The historical narratives and conceptual
intertwining I offer of both bioethics and of LDS moral culture is intended to complement
and expand the realm of Mormon studies. A further objective is to create opportunities
for reciprocal dialogues between the bioethics community and LDS scholarship. This
conversation has yet to occur within academic disciplines, professional communities,
or in public policy deliberations. My exposition, analysis, and critiques will intertwine
and contextualize LDS moral values and health care practices within the ethical inquiry
undertaken in the broader professional scholarship of bioethics. My arguments will
disclose some points of common ground as well as areas of divergence towards the end
of establishing the LDS faith tradition as a community of moral discourse for the
bioethics field and the healing professions (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, etc.) it
informs. My claim is that given its emerging cultural prominence, LDS ethical scholarship
should engage in bioethical literacy and bioethics should be LDS-literate. I am also
engaged in an effort to initiate more reflective dialogues regarding LDS ethics and
moral culture among LDS scholars, LDS health care professionals, and the interested
general LDS reader. The focus of the book on the interrelationship of religion, ethics,
medicine, and health care should present for these various audiences new opportunities
for mindful reflection and creative scholarship on the ethical implications of faith
commitments, the responsibilities of the healing professions, and religious dimensions
of public policy and public bioethics. A religious community that is formed through
narratives and practices of covenantal commitments of love of neighbor needs to have
a robust discourse about its ethical character. I have understood my scholarship in
biomedical ethics and in religious ethics through a linking metaphor of my moral culture,
of medicine, and the law, of bearing witness. The witness offers moral realities,
moral truths about the way things are, vocalizes and embodies moral experience, and
prophetically critiques the hypocrisies of the powerful and their oppression of the
vulnerable by offering a new story, a re-storying, of tradition and conventional practice"
Sujet(s) : Bioéthique -- Religion -- Église mormone
Mormons -- Attitude
Indice(s) Dewey :
174.2 (23e éd.) = Déontologie des professions médicales et de la santé ; 289.3 (23e éd.) = Églises originaires du mouvement des Saints des derniers jours
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-19-753852-4 (rel.). - ISBN 0197538525. - ISBN 9780197538548 (erroné)
EAN 9780197538524
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46789097j
Notice n° :
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