Religion and medical ethics. Green & M, R. Handbook of clinical neurology, 118:79--89, 2013.
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Religious traditions of medical ethics tend to differ from more secular approaches by stressing limitations on autonomous decision-making, by more positively valuing the experience of suffering, and by drawing on beliefs and values that go beyond empiric verification. I trace the impact of these differences for some of the world's great religious traditions with respect to four issues: (1) religious conscientious objection to medical treatments; (2) end-of life decision-making, including euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and the withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatments; (3) definitions of moral personhood (defining life's beginning and end); and (4) human sexuality.
@article{ green_religion_2013,
  title = {Religion and medical ethics},
  volume = {118},
  issn = {0072-9752},
  doi = {10.1016/B978-0-444-53501-6.00006-8},
  abstract = {Religious traditions of medical ethics tend to differ from more secular approaches by stressing limitations on autonomous decision-making, by more positively valuing the experience of suffering, and by drawing on beliefs and values that go beyond empiric verification. I trace the impact of these differences for some of the world's great religious traditions with respect to four issues: (1) religious conscientious objection to medical treatments; (2) end-of life decision-making, including euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and the withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatments; (3) definitions of moral personhood (defining life's beginning and end); and (4) human sexuality.},
  language = {eng},
  journal = {Handbook of clinical neurology},
  author = {Green, Ronald M},
  year = {2013},
  pmid = {24182368},
  keywords = {Ethics, Medical, Humans, Religion and Medicine},
  pages = {79--89}
}

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