Saying the unsaid: voicing quality-of-life criteria in an evangelical sanctity-of-life principle.
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The advances made in life-sustaining technology over the last twenty years have permitted the prolongation of biological life with questionable outcomes. Patients' experiences with pain, suffering, indignity and financial burdens have forced the medical community to reconsider sustaining life at all costs. Currently this reconsideration has issued into the acceptance of quality-of-life (QoL) criteria over an ever-weakening sanctity-of-life (SL) principle in the majority of medical literature guidelines and praxis studies that address life-sustaining care in the United States. Evangelical theologians and ethicists have recognized the dilemma of the latest medical technological advances as well. The majority have responded to this dilemma by qualifying their SL position while rejecting
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. Evangelical Theological Society
دوره 39 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996