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Caritas In Communion: Theological Foundations Of Catholic Health Care, M. Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

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Is It Killing? Jodie, Mary, And God, M Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

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Review Of Bioethics: A Christian Approach, By Scott B. Rae And Paul M. Cox, And Unprecedented Choices, By Audrey R. Chapman, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

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Becoming One Body: Health Care And Cloning, M Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

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Memory, Funerals, And The Communion Of Saints: Growing Old And Practices Of Remembering, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

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Wrongful Life? The Strange Case Of Nicholas Perruch, M Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

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Embryo Adoption? The Dilemmas Of Fertility, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

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Love Your Enemies: Toward A Christoform Bioethic, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

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Review Of Mountains Beyond Mountains, By Tracy Kidder; Pathologies Of Power By Paul Farmer; And The Uses Of Haiti By Paul Farmer, M Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

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Review Of Approaching The End: A Theological Exploration Of Death And Dying, By David Albert Jones, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

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A Call To Activism, Review Of Theological Bioethics, By Lisa Cahill, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

Dr. Lysaught reviews Lisa Cahill's book Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice, and Change.

M. Therese Lysaught was affiliated with the University of Dayton at the time of publication.

Moral Analysis Of A Procedure At Phoenix Hospital, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

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Medicine As Friendship With God: Anointing The Sick As A Theological Hermeneutic, M Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

A theological bioethics needs, first, a theological politics. The thesis of this essay rests on the claim that the contours of a theological politics are found in the nature of sacramental practices. More specifically, a theological politics of medicine is found in the sacramental practice of anointing of the sick. Anointing provides a radically theological hermeneutic—a theologically robust vision for interpreting medicine that, if enacted, can powerfully make real God's work in the world. Such a vision is embodied in one particular twentieth-century exemplar—the organization called Partners In Health (PIH) and its cofounder, Paul Farmer. Farmer and PIH, I argue, …

Practicing The Order Of Widows: A New Call For An Old Vocation, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

This essay argues for a renewed institution of an ancient Christian practice, the Order of Widows. Drawing on the Roman Catholic tradition's recent writings on the elderly, particularly the 1998 document from the Pontifical Council for the Laity entitled “The Dignity of Older People and their Mission in the Church and in the World,” I argue that we find within the Roman Catholic tradition advocacy for a renewed understanding of the vocation of the elderly within the Church. Building on this, I then trace in the broadest of outlines some elements of what a renewal of the Order of Widows …

Patient Suffering And The Anointing Of The Sick, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

Anthologized in On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics, 2nd edition. Edited by Stephen E. Lammers and Allen Verhey. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998, 356-364. And in On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics, 3rd edition. Edited by M. Therese Lysaught, Joseph Kotva, Stephen E. Lammers, and Allen Verhey. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012, 468-474.