Good Without God: Bioethics and the Sacred

Bioethics traffics in matters moral. As such, bioethics frequently bumps up against religion, offering an ideal arena to examine how the sacred and the secular encounter each other in modern medicine. In this essay I consider two places where bioethics and religion intersect: 1) the response of bioe...

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Autor principal: De Vries, R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2015
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Symposium: The Religious and Secular in Medicine and Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4577544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26412912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-015-9927-x
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description Bioethics traffics in matters moral. As such, bioethics frequently bumps up against religion, offering an ideal arena to examine how the sacred and the secular encounter each other in modern medicine. In this essay I consider two places where bioethics and religion intersect: 1) the response of bioethics to the universal problem of suffering, and 2) the professional proselytizing or “missionizing work” that bioethics does in order to make a place for itself among the professions of the life sciences.
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spelling pubmed-45775442015-09-24 Good Without God: Bioethics and the Sacred De Vries, R. Society Symposium: The Religious and Secular in Medicine and Health Bioethics traffics in matters moral. As such, bioethics frequently bumps up against religion, offering an ideal arena to examine how the sacred and the secular encounter each other in modern medicine. In this essay I consider two places where bioethics and religion intersect: 1) the response of bioethics to the universal problem of suffering, and 2) the professional proselytizing or “missionizing work” that bioethics does in order to make a place for itself among the professions of the life sciences. Springer US 2015-09-11 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4577544/ /pubmed/26412912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-015-9927-x Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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