Orthodox Christian Bioethics

This book advocates a substantive common ground in global bioethics. It starts from an Orthodox Christian anthropology to highlight the relationship between hospitality, dignity, and vulnerability as the meeting point between strangers, regardless of their value system. The universal experience of suffering and death is the unifying starting point of that anthropology. Therefore, in medicine, where physicians and patients meet as utter strangers, not only as moral strangers, hospitality highlights the human dignity and vulnerability of both parties and establishes gratitude, compassion, and solidarity as the constructive building blocks of a healing practice of medicine and a humane medical system, locally and globally.

Author: Rabee Toumi
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 10/07/2020
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9781725253698
ISBN10: 1725253690
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | Orthodox
- Religion | Christian Theology | Ethics

About the Author
Rabee Toumi, a physician by training, pursued in-depth theological studies in search of the meaning of health, suffering, dying, and medical practice. After medical school, he earned two advanced degrees in Orthodox Christian theology from seminaries in Lebanon and the US. In 2018, he earned his PhD in healthcare ethics from Duquesne University. Starting in 2010, he served as a deacon in the Antiochian Orthodox Church of North America and has assumed the priestly service of a parish in the Washington, DC, metro area since 2018.