03345nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-66485-4 DE-He213 20251030113036.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240912s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031664854 978-3-031-66485-4 10.1007/978-3-031-66485-4 doi R723-723.7 HP bicssc MBDC bicssc MED050000 bisacsh QD thema MBDC thema Sherlock, Richard. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 84142 Medicine and Hope: A Natural Theology of Human Caretaking [electronic resource] / by Richard Sherlock. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XIV, 104 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Philosophy and Medicine, 2215-0080 ; 149 Chapter 1. The Minister of Hope -- Chapter 2. Hope and Uncertainty: Noetic Uncertainty -- Chapter 3. Hope and Uncertainty: Moral Uncertainty -- Chapter 4. The Analytics of Hope -- Chapter 5. Ordinary Hope -- Chapter 6. The Mystery of Faithful Hope -- Chapter 7. Faith, Hope, and Love. This book expands, in a modest way, the discussion of hope and does so by focusing on a field where it is at the core of care-taking: medicine. The three great religious virtues of medieval theology were faith, hope, and love. An enormous literature exists about faith and love, but much less exists about hope. Doctors often know what they want to do for a patient but do not know whether they are able to have a good result. If they fail, will the result be worse? They must hope they can succeed. In other cases, they know what they can do but they are uncertain whether they should. If they do not undertake action, will the patient try to do it themselves with a much worse result? Questions such as these raise the issue of the importance of hope in medicine. This book builds on an insight from the first modern textbook of medical ethics, Thomas Percival’s 1803 classic Medical Ethics. There Percival says that the doctor is a “minister of hope to the sick”. This book analyses this concept, which is central to the practice of medicine. . Medicine Philosophy. 84143 Religion Philosophy. 68553 Ethics. 58934 Philosophy of Medicine. 84144 Philosophy of Religion. 68554 Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. 66410 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031664847 Printed edition: 9783031664861 Printed edition: 9783031664878 Philosophy and Medicine, 2215-0080 ; 149 84145 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66485-4 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 63300 63300