Biblical medicine

Biblical Ethics in Medicine

Among Christians a new consciousness in medical ethics has been raised by abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. The horror of these practices is often called "sound medical practice." This situation brings into question all the ethics of a medical worldview that allowed such practices to become routine. Many ethicists have observed that Protestants have lagged behind in their development of med...

Biblical and Talmudic medicine

first with the poetic view of mind, with examples from Homer and the tragedians, second with the philosopher's, i.e. largely Plato's, and finally with the medical, i.e. the early Hippocratic texts. All three approaches are combined in a discussion of hysteria, in which he also stresses the social and sexual prohibitions of Athenian women and the ambivalent, yet often effective, distancing of th...

Biblical Principles for Compensation

[Nine Biblical anesthetic premises.].

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The authors produced a historical analysis of nine anesthesia-related premises described in the Bible more than 3,500 years ago (Old Testament). Anesthetic drugs and adjuvants, patients, anesthesiologists attitudes and techniques are discussed in the light of Biblical and modern science. CONTENTS To help understanding, the nine premises evaluated are correlated to th...

Is Intelligent Design Biblical ?