Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion : Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives (Paperback)

Foreword; Introduction; Prologue: Which Medicine? Whose Religion? PART I: Understanding the Body 1 Responsibility for the Broken Body: Exploring the Invitation to Respond to the Presence of the Other 2 Embodied Soul and Ensouled Body: Reflections on Ravaisson and Theological Methodology 3 Judaism on the Body and the Practice of Medicine 4 "The Believer is Never Impure": Islam and Understanding the Embodied Person PART II: Respecting the Body 5 Reverence for the Body: An Ethical Principle Grounded in Human Experience 6 Healthy Legacies? Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas on Caring for Others and Ourselves7 Islam, Medicine, and Practice: The Manifestation of Islamic Moral Values in Everyday Aspects of the U.S. Health Care System8 A Shared Common Good: Catholic and Muslim Bioethical Approaches to HIV/AIDS in Kenya PART III: The Body at the End of Life9 In the Land of Pain: Why Daudet and Hitchens Are Still Relevant 10 Suffering, Death, and the Significance of Presence 11 The Dead Body as an Object of Investigation, Intrigue, and Reverence 12 Defining Death in the Context of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives