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- catalog abstract "In Medicine, Society, and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds Amundsen explores the disputed boundaries of medicine and Christianity by focusing on the principle of the sanctity of human life, including the duty to treat or attempt to sustain the life of the ill. As he examines this themes and moves from text to context, Amundsen clarifies a number of Christian principles in relation to bioethical issues that are hotly debated today. In his examination of the moral stance of the earliest syphilographers, for example, he finds insights into the ethical issues surrounding the treatment of AIDS, which he believes has its closest historical antecedent not in plague but in syphilis. He also shows that the belief that all healing comes from God, whether directly, through prayer, or through the use of medicine - a sentiment commonly held by contemporary Christians - cannot be accurately attributed to any extant source from the patristic period. Indeed, all the church fathers were convinced that healing sometimes came from evil sources: Satan and his demons were able to heal, for example, and Asclepius was a demon "to be taken very seriously indeed."".
- catalog contributor b8220266.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "1. Body, Soul, and Physician -- 2. The Physician's Obligation to Prolong Life: A Medical Duty without Classical Roots -- 3. Medicine and the Birth of Defective Children: Approaches of the Ancient World -- 4. Suicide and Early Christian Values -- 5. Medicine and Faith in Early Christianity -- 6. Tatian's "Rejection" of Medicine in the Second Century -- 7. Caring and Curing in the Medieval Catholic Tradition -- 8. Medieval Canon Law on Medical and Surgical Practice by the Clergy -- 9. Casuistry and Professional Obligations: The Regulation of Physicians by the Court of Conscience in the Late Middle Ages -- 10. Medical Deontology and Pestilential Disease in the Late Middle Ages -- 11. The Moral Stance of the Earliest Syphilographers, 1495-1505.".
- catalog description "As he examines this themes and moves from text to context, Amundsen clarifies a number of Christian principles in relation to bioethical issues that are hotly debated today. In his examination of the moral stance of the earliest syphilographers, for example, he finds insights into the ethical issues surrounding the treatment of AIDS, which he believes has its closest historical antecedent not in plague but in syphilis. He also shows that the belief that all healing comes from God, whether directly, through prayer, or through the use of medicine - a sentiment commonly held by contemporary Christians - cannot be accurately attributed to any extant source from the patristic period. Indeed, all the church fathers were convinced that healing sometimes came from evil sources: Satan and his demons were able to heal, for example, and Asclepius was a demon "to be taken very seriously indeed."".
- catalog description "In Medicine, Society, and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds Amundsen explores the disputed boundaries of medicine and Christianity by focusing on the principle of the sanctity of human life, including the duty to treat or attempt to sustain the life of the ill.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xv, 391 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Medicine, society, and faith in the ancient and medieval worlds.".
- catalog identifier "0801851092 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Medicine, society, and faith in the ancient and medieval worlds.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Medicine, society, and faith in the ancient and medieval worlds.".
- catalog subject "1996 A-861".
- catalog subject "610/.9 20".
- catalog subject "Christianity history Collected Works.".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Medical history Collected Works.".
- catalog subject "History, Ancient Collected Works.".
- catalog subject "History, Medieval Collected Works.".
- catalog subject "Medical ethics History.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Religious aspects Christianity.".
- catalog subject "Medicine, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Medicine, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "R725.56 .A48 1996".
- catalog subject "Religion and Medicine Collected Works.".
- catalog subject "W 50 A5315m 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Body, Soul, and Physician -- 2. The Physician's Obligation to Prolong Life: A Medical Duty without Classical Roots -- 3. Medicine and the Birth of Defective Children: Approaches of the Ancient World -- 4. Suicide and Early Christian Values -- 5. Medicine and Faith in Early Christianity -- 6. Tatian's "Rejection" of Medicine in the Second Century -- 7. Caring and Curing in the Medieval Catholic Tradition -- 8. Medieval Canon Law on Medical and Surgical Practice by the Clergy -- 9. Casuistry and Professional Obligations: The Regulation of Physicians by the Court of Conscience in the Late Middle Ages -- 10. Medical Deontology and Pestilential Disease in the Late Middle Ages -- 11. The Moral Stance of the Earliest Syphilographers, 1495-1505.".
- catalog title "Medicine, society, and faith in the ancient and medieval worlds / Darrel W. Amundsen.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".