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"""""Macaleer provides a remarkably insightful analysis of the New Testament scriptural foundations of basic bioethical principles that guide health care decisions today, whether dealing with the just distribution of health services or focusing upon the heart-wrenching decisions that occur at the end of life. This combination of impressive scholarship with a deep sense of personal faith will inspire students in the classroom, professionals in health care, and families facing perplexing decisions about illness and suffering."""" --Gerard Magill Center for Healthcare Ethics Duquesne University. """"Biomedical ethics in its early days was heavily influenced by theologians. It is refreshing and challenging that this book reviews and rejuvenates the bioethical debate from the perspective of the New Testament. Dennis Macaleer must be commended for (re)connecting bioethics and theology."""" --Henk ten Have Director, Center for Healthcare Ethics Duquesne University. """"In the current controversy of the American health care debate and the allocation of precious resources, Macaleer demonstrates how precarious the whole 'business' of the dispensing of medical services becomes when generalized principles of 'beneficence' or 'justice' control critical decisions regarding 'life' and the 'value of life.' This is a tour de force in redefining the priorities of the health-care debate that experts in bioethics and medical professionals alike would neglect only to the hastening of their theories' own 'dispensability.'"""" --David P. Moessner A. A. Bradford Chair and Professor of Religion Texas Christian University"

Macaleer provides a remarkably insightful analysis of the New Testament scriptural foundations of basic bioethical principles that guide health care decisions today, whether dealing with the just distribution of health services or focusing upon the heart-wrenching decisions that occur at the end of life. This combination of impressive scholarship with a deep sense of personal faith will inspire students in the classroom, professionals in health care, and families facing perplexing decisions about illness and suffering. --Gerard Magill Center for Healthcare Ethics Duquesne University. Biomedical ethics in its early days was heavily influenced by theologians. It is refreshing and challenging that this book reviews and rejuvenates the bioethical debate from the perspective of the New Testament. Dennis Macaleer must be commended for (re)connecting bioethics and theology. --Henk ten Have Director, Center for Healthcare Ethics Duquesne University. In the current controversy of the American health care debate and the allocation of precious resources, Macaleer demonstrates how precarious the whole 'business' of the dispensing of medical services becomes when generalized principles of 'beneficence' or 'justice' control critical decisions regarding 'life' and the 'value of life.' This is a tour de force in redefining the priorities of the health-care debate that experts in bioethics and medical professionals alike would neglect only to the hastening of their theories' own 'dispensability.' --David P. Moessner A. A. Bradford Chair and Professor of Religion Texas Christian University

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R. Dennis Macaleer has a unique combination of education and experience. He holds an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering from Princeton University, master's degrees from Fuller Seminary and Princeton Seminary, a Doctor of Ministry degree in marriage and family, and a PhD in bioethics. He has pastored several churches spanning two continents over a thirty-five year period and currently pastors a church in suburban Pittsburgh.

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