The Meaning of Death and the Goal of Medicine: An Augustinian and Barthian Reassessment

This article explores medicine's goals as they relate to the meaning of death and finitude through the lens of Jeffrey Bishop and Daniel Callahan. It concludes that arguments posed by these authors regarding death and medicine cohere with many rich Christian theological claims about the nature...

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Main Author: Alcott Ridenour, Autumn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2017]
In: Christian bioethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 60-76
RelBib Classification:NBE Anthropology
NCH Medical ethics
VA Philosophy
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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