- Dedication
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Religion and Spirituality in OBGYN
- Chapter 3 Religion and Spirituality in Pediatrics
- Chapter 4 Religion and Spirituality in Family Medicine
- Chapter 5 Religion and Spirituality in Psychiatry
- Chapter 6 Religion and Spirituality in Internal Medicine
- Chapter 7 Religion and Spirituality in Surgery
- Chapter 8 Religion and Spirituality in Gerontology
- Chapter 9 Religion and Spirituality in Oncology
- Chapter 10 Religion and Spirituality in Palliative Medicine
- Chapter 11 Religion and Spirituality in the Intensive Care Unit
- Chapter 12 Religion and Spirituality in Medical Ethics
- Chapter 13 Religion and Spirituality in Medical Education
- Chapter 14 Religion and Spirituality in Nursing
- Chapter 15 Medicine, Spirituality, Religion, and Psychology
- Chapter 16 Spirituality, Resistance, and Modern Medicine
- Chapter 17 Anthropologies of Medicine, Religion, and Spirituality and Their Application to Clinical Practice
- Chapter 18 Law, Religion, and the Physician-Patient Relationship
- Chapter 19 Medicine and Spirituality
- Chapter 20 Philosophical Perspectives on Medicine and Religion
- Chapter 21 Medicine, Religion, and Spirituality in Theological Context
- Chapter 22 Religion and Health
- Index
(p. 179) Religion and Spirituality in Medical Ethics
- Chapter:
- (p. 179) Religion and Spirituality in Medical Ethics
- Author(s):
Farr A. Curlin
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780190272432.003.0012
Religion and medical ethics are inextricably, we might say intrinsically, intertwined. This chapter starts at the surface—with how religion “shows up” in everyday clinical ethical disputes. It turns out that the religious characteristics of physicians are the strongest predictor of physicians’ approaches to ethically disputed clinical practices. That should not surprise us since below the surface of clinical disputes are inescapable moral questions to which religions give authoritative answers. That this is so calls the assumptions and practices of conventional medical ethics into question, particularly when those writing from religious traditions critique much of the culture of contemporary medicine.
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- Dedication
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Religion and Spirituality in OBGYN
- Chapter 3 Religion and Spirituality in Pediatrics
- Chapter 4 Religion and Spirituality in Family Medicine
- Chapter 5 Religion and Spirituality in Psychiatry
- Chapter 6 Religion and Spirituality in Internal Medicine
- Chapter 7 Religion and Spirituality in Surgery
- Chapter 8 Religion and Spirituality in Gerontology
- Chapter 9 Religion and Spirituality in Oncology
- Chapter 10 Religion and Spirituality in Palliative Medicine
- Chapter 11 Religion and Spirituality in the Intensive Care Unit
- Chapter 12 Religion and Spirituality in Medical Ethics
- Chapter 13 Religion and Spirituality in Medical Education
- Chapter 14 Religion and Spirituality in Nursing
- Chapter 15 Medicine, Spirituality, Religion, and Psychology
- Chapter 16 Spirituality, Resistance, and Modern Medicine
- Chapter 17 Anthropologies of Medicine, Religion, and Spirituality and Their Application to Clinical Practice
- Chapter 18 Law, Religion, and the Physician-Patient Relationship
- Chapter 19 Medicine and Spirituality
- Chapter 20 Philosophical Perspectives on Medicine and Religion
- Chapter 21 Medicine, Religion, and Spirituality in Theological Context
- Chapter 22 Religion and Health
- Index