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Shuman, Joel James.

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Beyond bioethics: Caring for Christ's body.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Beyond bioethics: Caring for Christ's body./
Author:	Shuman, Joel James.
Description:	217 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-02, Section: A, page: 0527.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-02A.
Subject:	Theology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=9825641
ISBN:	0591779749

Beyond bioethics: Caring for Christ's body.
Shuman, Joel James.

Beyond bioethics: Caring for Christ's body. - 217 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-02, Section: A, page: 0527.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 1998.

"Beyond Bioethics: Caring for Christ's Body" is a critical theological examination of the development of the philosophy of medicine and bioethics in modernity, and an attempt to provide a constructive orthodox Christian alternative. The author develops his argument by identifying in modern medicine a trend toward scientific and philosophical positivism with regard to its claims to possess the only complete and accurate knowledge of the human body. Such global claims, the author suggests, are in fact not sustainable; moreover, they serve to undergird and to reproduce a set of practices through which medicine is placed in the service of the modern liberal state and its capitalist political economy, institutions whose ideologies are incompatible with Christianity and its understanding that the Christian community is in fact the "Body of Christ."

ISBN: 0591779749Subjects--Topical Terms:

516533
Theology.

Beyond bioethics: Caring for Christ's body.
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520 $a "Beyond Bioethics: Caring for Christ's Body" is a critical theological examination of the development of the philosophy of medicine and bioethics in modernity, and an attempt to provide a constructive orthodox Christian alternative. The author develops his argument by identifying in modern medicine a trend toward scientific and philosophical positivism with regard to its claims to possess the only complete and accurate knowledge of the human body. Such global claims, the author suggests, are in fact not sustainable; moreover, they serve to undergird and to reproduce a set of practices through which medicine is placed in the service of the modern liberal state and its capitalist political economy, institutions whose ideologies are incompatible with Christianity and its understanding that the Christian community is in fact the "Body of Christ."
520 $a The dissertation begins with a critical examination of the development of the modern biomedical account of the human body. This critique is drawn from various disciplines, including political philosophy and the philosophy of mind and from the history and sociology of medicine. The author shows how certain assumptions of the modern "biomedical model" of understanding the human body serve to alienate persons from their bodies, from the bodies of others, and from the pursuit of human flourishing as understood by certain traditional communities like the Church. As such, medicine actually helps the modern state and its political economy produce a disciplined and submissive population of producers and consumers.
520 $a The dissertation then proceeds to develop an explicitly Christian account of the body and its goods. Drawing on the Christian understanding of the Church as the "Body of Christ," it shows how the liturgical social practices of baptism and eucharist are understood to fundamentally reconstitute the body on an ontological level such that it becomes impossible to distinguish in an absolute way the individual body of the Christian disciple, the community called the "Body of Christ," or the body of Christ located in the elements of the eucharist. This understanding of the body implies a politics in which the Church is understood as a community of unity and difference, one in which a certain status of authority is given to the "weaker members," characteristics which evoke a peculiarly Christian ethic of care for the sick and the dying among the members of the Body of Christ. Such an ethic, the author suggests, can be understood by examining the life and work of the late Flannery O'Connor, who was an especially remarkable example of this sort of performance of sickness and death.
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