Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics provides the first comprehensive
treatment of principles and positions on questions of bioethics
encountered by members, professionals, and ecclesiastical leaders
of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon).
The book addresses three fundamental features of a coherent
religious bioethics: precepts for practical decision-making,
general ethical principles, and core religious convictions that
give a distinctive motivation for personal, communal, and
professional integrity. LDS ethical principles of love, hospitality
to strangers, covenantal solidarity, justice, and moral agency are
integrated with central topics in bioethics including abortion,
genetic testing and enhancements, in vitro fertilization, medical
assisted death, medicinal marijuana, neonatal intensive care, organ
donation, preventive health care, universal access to care, and
vaccinations. This book uses first-person experiences to give voice
to the lived moral realities of Latter-day Saints as they
experience difficult and wrenching ethical questions and choices as
persons, family members, community members, professionals, and as
citizens within the context of their distinctive faith convictions.
It situates these communal conversations within the broader
discourse of bioethics and thereby supports both bioethics and
religious literacy. Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics also
examines circumstances in which The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints engages in a moral witness of its values on
matters of public policy, such as legalization of
physician-assisted death, of elective abortion, and of medicinal
marijuana. The book concludes with a distinctive normative argument
on why LDS ethical principles and practices require support of
universal access to an adequate level of health care for all
persons. It provides an appendix of significant LDS ecclesiastical
policies on medical, health, and moral issues, making it a
definitive educational and reference compilation.
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