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Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet
imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive
American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. At the same
time, uncurbed appetites have wasted the environment and driven the
country's market economy into the ditch. How can we best sustain
our identity as a people and resist the distortions of our current
anxieties and appetites?
Ethicist William F. May draws on America's religious and
political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding
of the country -- contractual and covenantal. He contends that the
biblical idea of a covenant offers a more promising way than the
language of contract, grounded in self-interest alone, to contain
our runaway anxieties and appetites. A covenantal sensibility
affirms, "We the people (not simply, We, the individuals, or We,
the interest groups) of the United States." It presupposes a
history of mutual giving and receiving and of bearing with one
another that undergirds all the traffic in buying and selling,
arguing and negotiating, that obtain in the rough terrain of
politics. May closes with an account of the covenantal agenda
ahead, and concludes with the vexing issue of immigrants and
undocumented workers that has singularly tested the covenant of
this immigrant nation.
This literally "refreshing" collection is based on the notion that
the future of bioethics is inseparable from its past. Seminal works
provide a unique and relatively unexplored vehicle for
investigating not only where bioethics began, but where it may be
going as well. In this volume, a number of the pioneers in
bioethics - Tom Beauchamp, Lisa Sowle Cahill, James Childress,
Charles E. Curran, Patricia King, H. Tristram Engelhardt, William
F. May, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Warren Reich, Robert Veatch and LeRoy
Walters - reflect on their early work and how they fit into the
past and future of bioethics. Coming from many disciplines,
generations, and perspectives, these trailblazing authors provide a
broad overview of the history and current state of the field.
Invaluable to anyone with a serious interest in the development and
future of bioethics, at a time when new paths into medical
questions are made almost daily, "The Story of Bioethics" is a
Baedeker beyond compare.
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Suffering (Paperback)
Arthur C. McGill; Foreword by Paul Ramsey, William F. May
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Description: Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Arthur McGill had
numerous opportunities to air his rich theological musings outside
of the classroom. We are now fortunate, some twenty-five years
after his death, to have seventeen sermons brought to us by the aid
of his wife Lucille McGill and editor David Cain (University of
Mary Washington). These homilies reveal the core themes that
distinguish his theological writings: relaxing in our neediness
before God, participating in the death-to-life pattern of
self-expenditure, and rooting our hope in the unique power of
Christ. The collection culminates with what Cain notes as McGill's
""signature"" sermon on The Good Samaritan, wherein we see that the
reception of grace always precedes the extension of grace. In
addressing day-to-day issues such as possessions, speech,
loneliness, and anger, McGill is both prophetic and pastoral. He
does not hesitate to say that ""the wickedness of Nineveh--alas
--is the wickedness of the United States."" At the same time, he
brings a refreshing word with theological depth about human
suffering and the God who models ultimate vulnerability.
Professionals today wield an enormous public power.
Collectively, their decisions affect the patient's plight, the
client's fate, the student's future, the city's scape, the Earth's
sustainability, the worker's fair treatment, and the durability of
institution's great and small. Yet professionals do not perceive
themselves as power wielders. They feel beleaguered, marginal,
insufficiently appreciated, often under siege. Thus they tend to
obscure for themselves their obligation to the common good. This
book explores eight professions as they struggle with their double
identity--as a means to livelihood and as a "common calling in the
spirit of public service." An interpretation of American culture
emerges from its pages, as social critic William May opens up the
ways in which each profession answers to something deep in the
American spirit.
May considers the overarching images that shape the convictions and
daily practice of the physician. Taking a step back from the
procedures and quandaries that are the focal points of many books
on ethics, he explores the moral power of images in understanding
the healer and defining his or her tasks. May updates his
reflections on five images of the healer: parent, fighter,
technician, teacher and covenanter.
As physicians are faced with new and wonderful options for saving
lives, transplanting organs, and furthering research, they also
must wrestle with new and troubling choices-who should receive
scarce and vital treatment, how we determine when life ends, what
limits should be placed on care for the dying, and more. This book
by renowned theologian Paul Ramsey, first published thirty years
ago, anticipated these moral and ethical issues and addressed them
with cogency and power, providing the intellectual foundations for
the field of bioethics. This second edition of Ramsey's classic
work includes a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by
Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May that help to locate and
interpret Ramsey historically and intellectually. Praise for the
earlier edition: "For its strong, well-argued positions, its
documentation and references, and its assistance in bringing
confused strands of thought into focus, The Patient as Person
willbe used for many years."-Michael Novak, New York Times "Amid
the plethora of books on medical ethics that merely skim the
surface, this one solidly examines most aspects of the
question--from the definition of death to organ
transplantation."-Christianity Today "Notable for its clear moral
reasoning and its thorough examination of all morally relevant
issues."-Journal of Religion "[Ramsey's] study is a masterpiece of
thoroughness in evaluating conflicting moral claims which become
explicit in crucial medical situations."-Dolores Dooley-Clarke,
Philosophical Studies
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