An Ambitious Goal: A Grounded, Informed, and Compelling Theological Bioethics
In Disability's Challenge to Theology: Genes, Eugenics, and the Metaphysics of Modern Medicine (Notre Dame Press, 2022), Devan Stahl establishes an ambitious goal: develop a Christian bioethics that is metaphysically grounded, informed by the experience of disability, and culturally compelling....
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2023
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The Hastings Center report
Year: 2023, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 44-45 |
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theological bioethics
B Disability B Book review B Genetics B Metaphysics B Christianity |
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| Summary: | In Disability's Challenge to Theology: Genes, Eugenics, and the Metaphysics of Modern Medicine (Notre Dame Press, 2022), Devan Stahl establishes an ambitious goal: develop a Christian bioethics that is metaphysically grounded, informed by the experience of disability, and culturally compelling. She argues that personhood is not the possession of certain abilities; all humans are worthy of dignity and respect because they are created by God in God's image. According to Stahl, persons should be valued for who they are and treated with radical acceptance. Interventions on the body should be judged on whether they promote flourishing, and such judgments should be informed by the experience of disability and made in community. These arguments will be of interest to Christian bioethics, disability scholars, and those interested in the capability approach, but clinical ethicists may find Stahl's book less compelling. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-146X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1002/hast.1465 |