TY - JOUR
T1 - Bioethics and Religions
T2 - Religious Traditions and Understandings of Morality, Health, and Illness
AU - Turner, Leigh
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2003/9
Y1 - 2003/9
N2 - For many individuals, religious traditions provide important resources for moral deliberation. While contemporary philosophical approaches in bioethics draw upon secular presumptions, religion continues to play an important role in both personal moral reasoning and public debate. In this analysis, I consider the connections between religious traditions and understandings of morality, medicine, illness, suffering, and the body. The discussion is not intended to provide a theological analysis within the intellectual constraints of a particular religious tradition. Rather, I offer an interpretive analysis of how religious norms often play a role in shaping understandings of morality. While many late 19th and early 20th century social scientists predicted the demise of religion, religious traditions continue to play important roles in the lives of many individuals. Whether bioethicists are sympathetic or skeptical toward the normative claims of particular religious traditions, it is important that bioethicists have an understanding of how religious models of morality, illness, and healing influence deliberations within the health care arena.
AB - For many individuals, religious traditions provide important resources for moral deliberation. While contemporary philosophical approaches in bioethics draw upon secular presumptions, religion continues to play an important role in both personal moral reasoning and public debate. In this analysis, I consider the connections between religious traditions and understandings of morality, medicine, illness, suffering, and the body. The discussion is not intended to provide a theological analysis within the intellectual constraints of a particular religious tradition. Rather, I offer an interpretive analysis of how religious norms often play a role in shaping understandings of morality. While many late 19th and early 20th century social scientists predicted the demise of religion, religious traditions continue to play important roles in the lives of many individuals. Whether bioethicists are sympathetic or skeptical toward the normative claims of particular religious traditions, it is important that bioethicists have an understanding of how religious models of morality, illness, and healing influence deliberations within the health care arena.
KW - Bioethics
KW - Interpretation
KW - Moral reasoning
KW - Public debate
KW - Religion
KW - Traditions
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U2 - 10.1023/B:HCAN.0000005491.88004.27
DO - 10.1023/B:HCAN.0000005491.88004.27
M3 - Review article
C2 - 14708931
AN - SCOPUS:0347379794
SN - 1065-3058
VL - 11
SP - 181
EP - 197
JO - Health Care Analysis
JF - Health Care Analysis
IS - 3
ER -