an excellent contribution to medical ethics" ―Ethics wide-ranging, compassionate, and insightful" ―Publishers Weekly a sensitive and provocative approach to the study of ethical decision making" ―Choice [This] sensitive and moving book... compels and merits the grateful, concentrated, and critical attention of all who know, who live with, and who seek to help those human beings to whom terrible things have happened." ―BioLawThe human contact embodied in The Patient's Ordeal puts the book light-years ahead of others in the field of medical ethics.... Once the dust from the academic reviews has settled, this book will be one of the few in the field of medical ethics that is thought of as a seminal work, one that has broken new ground. A remarkable, well-written, significant work, it cannot be commended too highly." ―Second Opinion

Patient's Ordeal (Medical Ethics)

Politics & Social Sciences

May, William F.

Philosophy

Indiana University Press

In this book, William May considers the images that shape the convictions and daily practice of the physician--images that can order experience and present the practitioner with imperatives by which to live. This updated edition will once again challenge physicians, students, and teachers of medical ethics to reach a deeper understanding of the physician's place in society.

The Physician's Covenant, Second Edition: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Westminster/John Knox Press

Collects essays that express the theologies of hope that the church will renew its commitment to its ministry, missions, evangelism, and theological education, addressing such topics as the church's preparedness in the face of spiritual crisis and the globalization of wealth.

Beleaguered Rulers: The Public Obligation of the Professional

Westminster John Knox Pr

Professionals today wield an enormous public power. Collectively, their decisions affect the patient's plight, the client's fate, the student's future, the city's scape, the Earth's sustainability, the worker's fair treatment, and the durability of institution's great and small. Yet professionals do not perceive themselves as power wielders. They feel beleaguered, marginal, insufficiently appreciated, often under siege. Thus they tend to obscure for themselves their obligation to the common good. This book explores eight professions as they struggle with their double identity--as a means to livelihood and as a "common calling in the spirit of public service." An interpretation of American culture emerges from its pages, as social critic William May opens up the ways in which each profession answers to something deep in the American spirit.

Business & Money

Business Culture

A discussion of Christian ethics focuses on the physician's image as a parent, warrior against death, expert, and teacher, and the oath that guides his or her practice

The Physician's Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics

Religion & Spirituality

Discusses health care reform, the impact of medical and religious ethics, and the issue of euthanasia

Testing the Medical Covenant: Active Euthanasia and Health Care Reform (The Institute of Religion Series on Religion and Health Care, #2)

Eerdmans Pub.Co.

Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. At the same time, uncurbed appetites have wasted the environment and driven the country's market economy into the ditch. How can we best sustain our identity as a people and resist the distortions of our current anxieties and appetites? Ethicist William F. May draws on America's religious and political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding of the country―contractual and covenantal. He contends that the biblical idea of a covenant offers a more promising way than the language of contract, grounded in self-interest alone, to contain our runaway anxieties and appetites. A covenantal sensibility affirms, "We the people (not simply, We the individuals, or We the interest groups) of the United States." It presupposes a history of mutual giving and receiving and of bearing with one another that undergirds all the traffic in buying and selling, arguing and negotiating, that obtain in the rough terrain of politics. May closes with an account of the covenantal agenda ahead, and concludes with the vexing issue of immigrants and undocumented workers that has singularly tested the covenant of this immigrant nation.

Testing the National Covenant: Fears and Appetites in American Politics

Georgetown University Press

William F. May, a leading expert on medical ethics, here explores two of today's most crucial tests of the medical covenant - active euthanasia and health care reform. May begins with an incisive introduction that delineates the covenantal, or relational, nature of the practice of medicine over against the merely contractual view - the quid pro quos of the commercial buying and selling of professional services. In the subsequent chapters, May follows the implications of the medical covenant with respect to the related issues of euthanasia and health care reform. He also provides a covenantal view of professional character and virtue - what virtues we should look for in covenanted physicians and nurses - discusses the limits of the medical covenant in the face of medical futility, and examines the implications of covenant keeping for the shape of future health care reform.

Testing the Medical Covenant: Active Euthanasia and Health Care Reform

Christian Books & Bibles

Wipf & Stock Pub

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Books by May, William F.

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Patient's Ordeal (Medical Ethics)

The Physician's Covenant, Second Edition: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics

Beleaguered Rulers: The Public Obligation of the Professional

Beleaguered Rulers: The Public Obligation of the Professional

The Physician's Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics

Testing the Medical Covenant: Active Euthanasia and Health Care Reform (The Institute of Religion Series on Religion and Health Care, #2)

Testing the National Covenant: Fears and Appetites in American Politics

Testing the Medical Covenant: Active Euthanasia and Health Care Reform