The medical profession’s increasing acceptance of “physician aid-in-dying” indicates the ascendancy of what we call the provider-of-services model for medicine, in which medical “providers” offer services to help patients maximize their “well-being” according to the wishes of the patient. This model contrasts with and contradicts what we call the Way of Medicine, in which medicine is a moral practice oriented to the patient’s health. A steadfast refusal intentionally to harm or kill is a touchstone of the Way of Medicine, one unambiguously affirmed by Christians through the centuries. Moreover, physician aid-in-dying contradicts one of the distinctive contributions that the Christian era brought to medicine, namely, a taken-for-granted solidarity between medical practitioners and those suffering illness and disability. Insofar as medical practitioners cooperate in aid-in-dying, they contradict this solidarity and undermine the trust that patients need to allow themselves to be cared for by physicians when they are sick and debilitated.
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Opposition to physician-assisted suicide is widespread in Christian ethics. However, on a topic as controversial as physician-assisted suicide, no one can reasonably speak for “the Christian” perspective. Natural-law and, specifically, just-war thinking are claimed in the Christian tradition, yet the natural-law contribution to a Christian ethical analysis of physician-assisted suicide requires explanation and defense. Natural-law ethical theory affirms the central role of reason in moral thinking and provides a theoretical resource in contemporary ethics to assist in analyzing specific moral issues, problems, and conflicts. This essay seeks to demonstrate how just-war thinking, derived from natural-law tradition, allows movement from the theoretical world of natural-law theory to the practical world of normative ethics. Here the case is made that the just-war model of ethics helps elucidate the moral problematic involved in physician-assisted suicide while clarifying direction on this particularly thorny and controversial problem.
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Christian Bioethics would like to thank the following guest reviewers for their help during the past year:
基督教生命伦理学在此感谢以下嘉宾评审在过去一年中给予的帮助:
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{"title":"Prenatal Diagnosis and the Christian Health Professional","authors":"M. Magelssen","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBW011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBW011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"22 1","pages":"325-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBW011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60684153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joseph M. Boyle: In Memoriam","authors":"C. Tollefsen","doi":"10.1093/cb/cbw017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbw017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"22 1","pages":"364-365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/cb/cbw017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60684272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implications of Christian Truth Claims for Bioethics","authors":"J. Clint Parker","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBW013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBW013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"22 1","pages":"265-275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBW013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60684197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Christian Physician: Combining Conscience, Philanthropia, and Calling","authors":"M. Sleasman, G. Rutecki","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBW014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBW014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"9 1","pages":"340-362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBW014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60684209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Prolegomenon to Catholic Moral Teaching on Sperm Motility Treatment","authors":"John M. Ayang","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBW015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBW015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"22 1","pages":"315-324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBW015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60684248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Are Religious Reasons Dismissed? Euthanasia, Basic Goods, and Gratuitous Evil","authors":"S. Napier","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBW012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBW012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"22 1","pages":"276-300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBW012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60684160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Contribution of Natural Law Theory to Bioethics","authors":"C. Tollefsen","doi":"10.1093/CB/CBW003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CB/CBW003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42894,"journal":{"name":"Christian Bioethics","volume":"22 1","pages":"81-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CB/CBW003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60683164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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