Seventh-day Adventism's Protestant Health Care Ministry in America
Seventh-day Adventist health care in the United States routinely offers clinical services that utilize the full retinue of present-day, family-building, medical technologies. Whether through the practice of Adventist physicians or associated non-Adventist physicians, American Adventist health care h...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2015]
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 214-236 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church KDG Free church NCB Personal ethics NCH Medical ethics |
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| Summary: | Seventh-day Adventist health care in the United States routinely offers clinical services that utilize the full retinue of present-day, family-building, medical technologies. Whether through the practice of Adventist physicians or associated non-Adventist physicians, American Adventist health care hospitals and corporations serve their communities in ways essentially consistent with American societal values. Three broadly characterized Seventh-day Adventist subcultures (clerical, medical, and business) work together in typical American Protestant fashion in the effort to serve local communities. Sociopolitical dynamics among these three subcultures throughout the short history of Seventh-day Adventism demonstrates the difficulty of offering "the" Seventh-day Adventist answer to the question of how the Church is responding to modern family-building medical technologies. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbv002 |