Why Physician-Assisted Suicide Perpetuates the Idolatry of Medicine

Adequate response to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia depends on fundamental philosophical and theological issues, including the character of an appropriate philosophically and theologically anchored anthropology, where the central element of traditional Christian anthropology is that human...

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Main Author: Cherry, Mark J. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2003
In: Christian bioethics
Year: 2003, Volume: 9, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 245-271
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