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Covenants of Life : Contemporary Medical Ethics in Light of the Thought of Paul Ramsey / edited by Kenneth L. Vaux, Sara Vaux, Mark Stenberg

Vaux, Sara ; Stenberg, Mark

Dordrecht : Springer, 2002

Online-Ressource (IX, 257 p) : digital

Englisch

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978-94-015-9898-9

978-90-481-6189-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-94-015-9898-9

BJ1-1725

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bicssc: HPQ ; bisacsh: PHI005000

LOC-SH: Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Ethics ; Religion.

This volume captures a unique exchange between Paul Ramsey and his most prominent colleagues. In one sense it remains a Festschrift in his honor, characterized, at times, by a markedly informal tone. Yet, in the spirit of both the analytical rigor and the self-exposure that marked Ramsey's career, this volume is not simply a tribute to Ramsey's lifework but rather a vehicle for intense conversation and argument about issues of human birth, life, suffering, and death. The editors see it as a state of the art discussion that brings the best insights from Judeo-Christian thought into contact with wider and more public arenas of medical ethics. Of course, such a collection as this grants Ramsey the permission to have the last word. But this final word is entrusted to a mature and remarkably open mind, still sharpening its critical skills and risking exposure to new issues and voices