Medicine As Ministry: Reflections on Suffering, Ethics, and Hope - Softcover

Mohrmann, Margaret E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0829810730 ISBN 13: 9780829810738

Publisher: Pilgrim Pr, 1995

Synopsis

"This is not just another book about ethics, but, rather, it is a book filled with the wisdom of a person willing to have her life as aphysician touched by her patients. We are all ennobled by her witness. --Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University MARGARET E. MOHRMANN, M.D., is a practicing physician and an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia, where she received a Ph.D. in religious ethics.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In this profoundly theological reflection on illness, healing, and the doctor-patient relationship, pediatrician Margaret Mohrmann bridges the sometimes disparate worlds of medicine and faith, of high technology and ultimate concern. Drawing on her two decades of experience treating children who suffer from disease and dysfunction, Mohrmann movingly reveals the temptations of idolatry that beset our understanding of health and life, the intrinsic connectedness underlying all medical encounters, and the difficulties and riches of using scripture as a moral resource. In clear, accessible language Mohrmann emphasizes the importance of interpreting the lives of the suffering as meaningful and ongoing stories - stories that require all of us to respond in healing ways. Uncovering insights from such diverse sources as the apostle Paul, Alasdair MacIntyre and Flannery O'Connor, she suggests that what is required for a truly human life is not the absence of pain, but the presence of others. Both pastoral and prophetic, Medicine as Ministry is a challenge to rethink the purposes of health care - and to better discern the human condition.

About the Author:

Margaret E. Mohrmann, M.D., is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pilgrim Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0829810730
• ISBN 13: 9780829810738
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128