Medicine And The Mormons

Author : Lester E. Bush
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health and Medicine Among the Latter-day Saints written by Lester E. Bush and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating introduction to the "quintessential American religion" by a Mormon doctor and scholar. Bush addresses 10 key themes from the Mormon point of view--dying, passages, well-being, healing, suffering, madness, sexuality, caring, dignity, and morality--as well as healing practices and the Mormon health code.

Author : Courtney S. Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197538525
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics written by Courtney S. Campbell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Books have their origins in conversations and seek to extend and expand those conversations over time and with different audiences. The conversations that have culminated in this book were initially stimulated through a research project at The Hastings Center on the role of religious voices in the professional fields of bioethical inquiry. Those professional conversations have continued throughout my academic career as a member of various institutional ethics committees, organizational ethics task forces, and in local, state, and national public policy settings. The professional context of bioethics conversations can sometimes miss the richness of conversations that occur in the classroom and with various communities, including family members, friends, and religious and civic communities. These conversations provide an experiential depth, a groundedness in the lives and stories of persons, which augments and corrects the professionalized perspectives. I have been particularly fortunate and appreciative of opportunities to bridge the academic and professional with the personalized and communal through conversations about the ethical commitments and moral culture cultivated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon). I was invited to develop an overview essay on "Bioethics in Mormonism" for the professional reference work, Encyclopedia of Bioethics (3rd ed., 2004), and some years later received my first invitation to make a presentation on "LDS Ethics" in an academic setting at the University of Virginia. This book is the outgrowth of these many conversations and seeks to advance my communal bridging. My aim in this book is to begin bridging these various intersections between the LDS religious community and its moral culture, the professional fields of bioethics, and practical decision-making. This work seeks to be a catalyst for expanding discourse within the interdisciplinary field of Mormon studies to include ethics and bioethics. Ethics has not been a well-developed area in Mormon studies, in contrast to studies in LDS history, theology, or literature. To remedy this oversight, I present a substantive interpretation of the sources, theological background, and moral principles of LDS ethics. The historical narratives and conceptual intertwining I offer of both bioethics and of LDS moral culture is intended to complement and expand the realm of Mormon studies. A further objective is to create opportunities for reciprocal dialogues between the bioethics community and LDS scholarship. This conversation has yet to occur within academic disciplines, professional communities, or in public policy deliberations. My exposition, analysis, and critiques will intertwine and contextualize LDS moral values and health care practices within the ethical inquiry undertaken in the broader professional scholarship of bioethics. My arguments will disclose some points of common ground as well as areas of divergence towards the end of establishing the LDS faith tradition as a community of moral discourse for the bioethics field and the healing professions (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, etc.) it informs. My claim is that given its emerging cultural prominence, LDS ethical scholarship should engage in bioethical literacy and bioethics should be LDS-literate. I am also engaged in an effort to initiate more reflective dialogues regarding LDS ethics and moral culture among LDS scholars, LDS health care professionals, and the interested general LDS reader. The focus of the book on the interrelationship of religion, ethics, medicine, and health care should present for these various audiences new opportunities for mindful reflection and creative scholarship on the ethical implications of faith commitments, the responsibilities of the healing professions, and religious dimensions of public policy and public bioethics. A religious community that is formed through narratives and practices of covenantal commitments of love of neighbor needs to have a robust discourse about its ethical character. I have understood my scholarship in biomedical ethics and in religious ethics through a linking metaphor of my moral culture, of medicine, and the law, of bearing witness. The witness offers moral realities, moral truths about the way things are, vocalizes and embodies moral experience, and prophetically critiques the hypocrisies of the powerful and their oppression of the vulnerable by offering a new story, a re-storying, of tradition and conventional practice"--

Author : Mary Lee
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781453711521
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and the Mormons written by Mary Lee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This captivating history begins in a time when the "old school" of American medicine over emphasized bloodletting and purging, usually by means of massive doses of calomel, and use of "mineral" medications such as arsenic and styrchnine, methods that eased many a person to a premature death. Is it any wonder that Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and many others on the American frontier preferred faith healing and the botanic medicine of Samuel Thomson? With his careful documentation and objective style, it's apparent how author Robert T. Divett won the Medical Library Association's Gottlieb Prize for the year's best article on the history of medicine twice. He was said to be one of the top two or three LDS medical historians and this book, Medicine and the Mormons, is a landmark contribution to both Mormon and medical history." -- Back cover.

Author : Robert Thomas Divett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and the Mormons written by Robert Thomas Divett and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes history of medicine in the LDS church and in Utah.

Author : Robert Thomas Divett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882901947
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book Medicine and the Mormons written by Robert Thomas Divett and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rex E. Lee
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
ISBN 13 : 9780875796390
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Do Mormons Believe? written by Rex E. Lee and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 1992 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few religions have grown more rapidly in recent years or attracted as much notice as the Mormon Church. Yet despite the growth and attention, most people know little about that church, and misinformation about its beliefs abounds. [This book] succinctly introduces the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the official name for the Mormon Church). Rex E. Lee, president of Brigham Young University and former Solicitor General of the United States, explains what members believe and why, from the viewpoint of a believer."--Dust jacket flap.

Author : Courtney S. Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197538541
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics written by Courtney S. Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics provides the first comprehensive treatment of principles and positions on questions of bioethics encountered by members, professionals, and ecclesiastical leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon). The book addresses three fundamental features of a coherent religious bioethics: precepts for practical decision-making, general ethical principles, and core religious convictions that give a distinctive motivation for personal, communal, and professional integrity. LDS ethical principles of love, hospitality to strangers, covenantal solidarity, justice, and moral agency are integrated with central topics in bioethics including abortion, genetic testing and enhancements, in vitro fertilization, medical assisted death, medicinal marijuana, neonatal intensive care, organ donation, preventive health care, universal access to care, and vaccinations. This book uses first-person experiences to give voice to the lived moral realities of Latter-day Saints as they experience difficult and wrenching ethical questions and choices as persons, family members, community members, professionals, and as citizens within the context of their distinctive faith convictions. It situates these communal conversations within the broader discourse of bioethics and thereby supports both bioethics and religious literacy. Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics also examines circumstances in which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints engages in a moral witness of its values on matters of public policy, such as legalization of physician-assisted death, of elective abortion, and of medicinal marijuana. The book concludes with a distinctive normative argument on why LDS ethical principles and practices require support of universal access to an adequate level of health care for all persons. It provides an appendix of significant LDS ecclesiastical policies on medical, health, and moral issues, making it a definitive educational and reference compilation.

Author : Philip L. Barlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019973903X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mormons and the Bible written by Philip L. Barlow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip L. Barlow analyzes the approaches taken to the Bible by key Mormon leaders, from founder Joseph Smith up to the present day. This edition includes an updated preface and bibliography.

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400078997
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Banner of Heaven written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.

Author : Thomas F. O'Dea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mormons written by Thomas F. O'Dea and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: