Risky Hospitality: Ordinal Ethics and the Duties of Abundance

WHEN I WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT of the American Academy of Religion as the first in my field of bioethics to be so honored, I thought a great deal about why having my discipline would matter. I felt initial disciplinary duties, of course, to the field of bioethics, wanting to bring the intensity and th...

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Nebentitel:Roundtable on climate destiabilization and the study of religion
1. VerfasserIn: Zoloth, Laurie 1950- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford University Press [2015]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Jahr: 2015, Band: 83, Heft: 2, Seiten: 373-387
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Zusammenfassung:WHEN I WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT of the American Academy of Religion as the first in my field of bioethics to be so honored, I thought a great deal about why having my discipline would matter. I felt initial disciplinary duties, of course, to the field of bioethics, wanting to bring the intensity and the passion of a new discipline and all our tumultuous questions to the fore. But so often, our questions are about singular dramas, one by one at the hospital bed, or in a particular lab, one disease, a particular cell, a particular viral vector. However, increasingly, when I spent time with scientists or public health physicians, the talk turned to something far larger: the way that a slowly but dramatically changed climate...
ISSN:1477-4585
Enthält:Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfv014