Religious Perspectives on Human Suffering: Implications for Medicine and Bioethics

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• 作者：Scott J. Fitzpatrick ; Ian H. Kerridge…
• 关键词：Suffering ; Religion ; Medicine ; Bioethics
• 刊名：Journal of Religion and Health
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：55
• 期：1
• 页码：159-173
• 全文大小：385 KB
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• 作者单位：Scott J. Fitzpatrick (1) (2)
  Ian H. Kerridge (2)
  Christopher F. C. Jordens (2)
  Laurie Zoloth (3)
  Christopher Tollefsen (4)
  Karma Lekshe Tsomo (5)
  Michael P. Jensen (6)
  Abdulaziz Sachedina (7)
  Deepak Sarma (8)
  
  1. Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle, Bloomfield Campus, Locked Bag 6005, Orange, NSW, 2800, Australia
  2. Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  3. Centre for Bioethics, Science and Society, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
  4. Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Colombia, SC, USA
  5. Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
  6. Moore Theological College, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  7. Ali Vural Ak Centre for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
  8. Religious Studies, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Clinical Psychology
  Religious Studies
  Public Health
  Aging
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-6571

文摘

The prevention and relief of suffering has long been a core medical concern. But while this is a laudable goal, some question whether medicine can, or should, aim for a world without pain, sadness, anxiety, despair or uncertainty. To explore these issues, we invited experts from six of the world’s major faith traditions to address the following question. Is there value in suffering? And is something lost in the prevention and/or relief of suffering? While each of the perspectives provided maintains that suffering should be alleviated and that medicine’s proper role is to prevent and relieve suffering by ethical means, it is also apparent that questions regarding the meaning and value of suffering are beyond the realm of medicine. These perspectives suggest that medicine and bioethics have much to gain from respectful consideration of religious discourse surrounding suffering. Keywords Suffering Religion Medicine Bioethics