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"Despite its venerated traditional place in medicine, the relief of patients' suffering has often taken a back seat in modern biomedical research and treatment. To suffering's many forms--epidemics, premature death, painful disease conditions, and prolonged dying--there often seems to be only one obvious response today: increase research on disease and its causes, and translate this research as soon as possible into effective clinical therapies. Modern bioethics, too, has been slow to come to terms with suffering. Recent literature reveals an increase in the number of conflicting inclinations when it comes to the obligation for modern medicine to alleviate suffering as a goal in itself. Debates about pharmacological human enhancement, new reproductive technologies, prenatal testing, genomic interventions, and end-of life care, including physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, all revolve around the question of the scope, extent, and limits of our obligation to relieve suffering. The aim of this book is to undertake a new foray into what has been 'foreign territory' for modern bioethics. It is organized so as to examine suffering in its biological, psychological, clinical, and religious dimensions, and in many of the ways its concept and reality influence bioethical decision making." --
Suffering and human dignity / Eric J. Cassell -- Understanding suffering / Barry Hoffmaster -- Paying homage to the silence of suffering / Gordon D. Marino and Susan E. Marino -- Suffering, and the promise of a world without pain / Joseph A. Amato -- Social neuroscience meets philosophy : suffering, empathy, and moral cognition / Jean Decety -- Biology of suffering / Daniel Krashin, Natalia Murinova, Catherine Q. Howe, and Jane C. Ballantyne -- What is suffering and what sorts of beings can suffer? / David Degrazia -- Individual and social callousness toward human suffering / Daniel B. Hinshaw, Peter D. Jacobson, and Marisa P. Weisel -- Human rights and the moral obligation to alleviate suffering / Roberto Andorno and Cristiana Baffone -- Exploring interactions between pain, suffering, and the law / Margaret Somerville -- Suffering : a Catholic theological-ethical view / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- The Orthodox Christian view of suffering / H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. -- Redemptive suffering redeemed : a Protestant view of suffering / Karen Lebacqz -- Suffering : reflections from the Jewish tradition / Laurie Zoloth -- Human suffering through illness in the context of Islamic bioethics / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Endure, adapt, or overcome? : the concept of "suffering" in Buddhist bioethics / Jens Schlieter -- Human suffering and the limits of secular bioethics / Mark J. Cherry -- Reproductive technology in suffering's shadow / Paul Lauritzen -- Genomic information and suffering in the genomic era / Roberta M. Berry -- Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and the prevention of suffering / Mary Anderlik Majumder -- Suffering and ethics in an age of empowerment / Nathan J. Palpant -- The evil of suffering / Ronald M. Green.
edited by Ronald M. Green and Nathan J. Palpant.
Includes bibliographical references and index.