Risky Hospitality: Ordinal Ethics and the Duties of Abundance
WHEN I WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT of the American Academy of Religion as the first in my field of bioethics to be so honored, I thought a great deal about why having my discipline would matter. I felt initial disciplinary duties, of course, to the field of bioethics, wanting to bring the intensity and th...
Subtitles: | Roundtable on climate destiabilization and the study of religion |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2015]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 83, Issue: 2, Pages: 373-387 |
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Summary: | WHEN I WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT of the American Academy of Religion as the first in my field of bioethics to be so honored, I thought a great deal about why having my discipline would matter. I felt initial disciplinary duties, of course, to the field of bioethics, wanting to bring the intensity and the passion of a new discipline and all our tumultuous questions to the fore. But so often, our questions are about singular dramas, one by one at the hospital bed, or in a particular lab, one disease, a particular cell, a particular viral vector. However, increasingly, when I spent time with scientists or public health physicians, the talk turned to something far larger: the way that a slowly but dramatically changed climate... |
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ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfv014 |