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Wheeler, SondraKeywords
BioethicsChristians
Ethics
Health
Religious Ethics
Sociology of Health Care
Health Care
Sexuality / Gender
Health Care Programs for Women
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Abstract
Kaveny recommends models drawn from the Gospel of John and the practices of the early church for modern Christians in their response to older women and their health needs. She draws upon a historical reconstruction of the early Christian Order of Widows to propose a normative standard of care for elderly women, one that attends seriously to their bodily needs but also to their needs for inclusion and engagement in the social and vocational world both as givers and recipients of care. This is also to serve as an overarching model for a bioethics that prizes the embodied existence of all women and rejects judgments of appropriate treatment based on their social utility. The following response raises questions about the exegetical and historical foundations of Kaveny's analysis. However, these caveats may not detract substantially from the normative usefulness of her work.Date
2016-01-08Identifier
oai:repository.library.georgetown.edu:10822/982461doi:10.1080/13803600590926486
Christian Bioethics 2005 April; 11(1): 69-76
http://worldcatlibraries.org/registry/gateway?version=1.0&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&atitle=Contemporary+ethics+from+an+ambiguous+past&title=Christian+Bioethics+&volume=11&issue=1&spage=69-76&date=2005-04&au=Wheeler,+Sondra
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13803600590926486
http://hdl.handle.net/10822/982461
DOI
10.1080/13803600590926486ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/13803600590926486