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Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor: A Handbook for Clergy and Health-Care Professionals
Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor: A Handbook for Clergy and Health-Care Professionals
Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor: A Handbook for Clergy and Health-Care Professionals
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Clinical ethics is a relatively new discipline within medicine, generated not so much by the “Can we . . . ?” questions of fact and prognosis that physicians usually address, but primarily by the more uncomfortable gray areas having to do with “Should we . . . ?” questions:

Should we use a feeding tube for Mom? 
How should we deal with our baby about to be born with life-threatening anomalies? 
Should our son be taken off dialysis, even though he’ll die without it?
What should we do with our mentally ill sister, who has proven that she is untreatable?

In this book Robert Orr draws on his extensive medical knowledge and experience to offer a wealth of guidance regarding real-life dilemmas in clinical ethics. Replete with instructive case studies, Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor is an invaluable resource that reintroduces the human element to a discussion so often detached from the very people it claims to concern.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherEerdmans
Release dateOct 20, 2009
ISBN9781467433921
Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor: A Handbook for Clergy and Health-Care Professionals
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Robert D. Orr

 Robert D. Orr (1941–2021) was an expert in family medicine and medical ethics who taught at Loma Linda University Medical Center, the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Trinity International University, and Union University Graduate School. He authored and edited several books, including Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor.

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