Embodiment, Morality, and Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Perspectives on Embodiment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Body and the Bible: Life in the Flesh According to the Spirit

      • Allen Verhey

      Pages 3-22

   3. Embodiment and Ambivalence: A Jewish Feminist Perspective

      • Judith Plaskow

      Pages 23-36

   4. Islamic Perspectives on the Human Body: Legal, Social and Spiritual Considerations

      • Valerie J. Hoffman

      Pages 37-55

3. Practical Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Genetic Research and the Elusive Body

      • James F. Keenan

      Pages 59-73

   3. Abortion: Embodiment and Prenatal Development

      • Carol A. Tauer

      Pages 75-92

   4. Ritual Recognition of Abortion: Japanese Buddhist Practices and U.S. Jewish and Christian Proposals

      • June O’Connor

      Pages 93-111

   5. Whose Bodies? Which Selves? Appeals to Embodiment in Assessments of Reproductive Technology

      • Paul Lauritzen

      Pages 113-126

   6. Embodiment and Organ Transplants: On Giving and Taking Our Bodies More Seriously

      • Patrick McCormick

      Pages 127-140

   7. African Americans and Organ Donation: Reflections on Religion, Ethics and Embodiment

      • Cheryl J. Sanders

      Pages 141-153

   8. The “Fridge”: Health Care and the Disembodiment of Women

      • Karen Lebacqz

      Pages 155-167

   9. Marks of the Body: Embodiment and Diminishment

      • Courtney S. Campbell

      Pages 169-183

   10. The Body Suffering: Illness and Disability

       • John T. Carmody, Denise L. Carmody

       Pages 185-197

   11. “Embodiment” and Moral Critique: A Christian Social Perspective

       • Lisa Sowle Cahill

       Pages 199-215

4. Back Matter

   Pages 217-225

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Embodiment, Morality and Medicine deals with the relevance of `embodiment' to bioethics, considering both the historical development and contemporary perspectives on the mind--body relation. The emphasis of all authors is on the importance of the body in defining personal identity as well as on the role of social context in shaping experience of the body. Among the perspectives considered are Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, and African-American. Feminist concerns are important throughout.

• Ethics
• Islam
• Religion
• bioethics
• health
• morality

• Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA

  Lisa Sowle Cahill

• Yale University, New Haven, USA

  Margaret A. Farley

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