The Impact of Health Care: On Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1666780596 ISBN 13: 9781666780598

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2023

Synopsis

Pluralism has become the defining characteristic of many modern societies. Not only a plurality of individual and social claims and activities gain impacts on societal life. A creative pluralism of institutions and their norms profoundly shape our moral commitments and character - notably the family, the market, the media, and systems of law, religion, politics, research, education, health care, and defense. In the theoretical, empirical, and historical contributions to this volume, specialists on medicine, medical ethics, psychology, theology and health care discuss the many challenges that major transformations in their areas of expertise pose to the communication and orientation in late modern pluralistic societies. Contributors come from Germany, the USA and Australia.

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About the Author

Michael Welker, (born in 1947) was a professor of theology at the German universities of Tübingen, Münster, and Heidelberg and frequently a guest professor in the Anglo-American world (McMaster, Princeton, Harvard, Emory, and Cambridge). He is an honorary professor at Seoul Theological University, senior professor at the University of Heidelberg, and director of its Research Center International and Interdisciplinary Theology (FIIT). He has organized many international and interdisciplinary research projects that related theology and science, theology and law, theology and economy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666780596
• ISBN 13: 9781666780598
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Welker Michael, Winkler Eva, Witte Jr John