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100 1 $aAmundsen, Darrel W.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85276198
245 10 $aMedicine, society, and faith in the ancient and medieval worlds /$cDarrel W. Amundsen.
260 $aBaltimore, MD :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c1996.
300 $axv, 391 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aCollection of previously published essays.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tBody, Soul, and Physician --$g2.$tThe Physician's Obligation to Prolong Life: A Medical Duty without Classical Roots --$g3.$tMedicine and the Birth of Defective Children: Approaches of the Ancient World --$g4.$tSuicide and Early Christian Values --$g5.$tMedicine and Faith in Early Christianity --$g6.$tTatian's "Rejection" of Medicine in the Second Century --$g7.$tCaring and Curing in the Medieval Catholic Tradition --$g8.$tMedieval Canon Law on Medical and Surgical Practice by the Clergy --$g9.$tCasuistry and Professional Obligations: The Regulation of Physicians by the Court of Conscience in the Late Middle Ages --$g10.$tMedical Deontology and Pestilential Disease in the Late Middle Ages --$g11.$tThe Moral Stance of the Earliest Syphilographers, 1495-1505.
520 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aAs 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.
520 8 $aHe 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."
650 0 $aMedical ethics$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010101235
650 0 $aMedicine$xReligious aspects$xChristianity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107670
650 0 $aMedicine, Medieval.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083152
650 0 $aMedicine, Ancient.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083114
650 12 $aReligion and Medicine.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012068
650 12 $aEthics, Medical$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004992Q000266
650 22 $aChristianity$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002835Q000266
650 22 $aHistory, Ancient.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D049690
650 22 $aHistory, Medieval.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D049691
655 2 $aCollected Work.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020470
852 00 $bglx$hR725.56$i.A48 1996
852 00 $boff,hsl$hR725.56$i.A48 1996