
Losing Our Dignity
How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality
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Charles C. Camosy
There is perhaps no more important value than fundamental human equality. And yet, despite large percentages of people affirming the value, the resources available to explain and defend the basis for such equality are few and far between. In his newest book, Charles Camosy provides a thoughtful defense of human dignity.
Telling personal stories like those of Jahi McMath, Terri Schiavo, and Alfie Evans, Camosy, a noted bioethicist and theologian, uses an engaging style to show how the influence of secularized medicine is undermining fundamental human equality in the broader culture. And in a disturbing final chapter, Camosy sounds the alarm about the next population to fall if we stay on our current trajectory: dozens of millions of human beings with dementia.
Heeding this alarm, Camosy argues, means doing two things. First, making urgent and genuine attempts to dialogue with a secularized culture which cannot see how it is undermining one of its most foundational values. Second, religious communities which hold the Imago Dei sacred must mobilize their existing institutions (and create new ones) to care for a new set of human beings our throwaway culture may deem nonpersons.
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Review of book itself: We are not disposable - we have dignity and worth. Secularized medicine says otherwise. In Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality, Charles Camosy plows headfirst into the line of scrimmage that is modern - and secularized - medicine, and its concomitant framework of bioethics, and advances the ball up the field. With strength of scholarship and gift of articulating and writing a coherent and cogent argument, Camosy lays out the indisputable theological foundations of medicine and an ethic of care; demonstrates how secularization of medicine and ethics has destroyed its own guiding principles; and then deconstructs the value system that has arisen in place of those principles. Proverbial and somewhat prophetic, Camosy has long been engaged with the broader Consistent Life Ethic and attention to a throwaway culture. Using relevant and still-shocking case studies, this latest endeavor of his continues his sounding of the cultural alarm for the downward trends in respect for human dignity, respect for human life, and respect for fundamental human equality. It is an essential read (or listen!) for everyone, for we all have a stake in how the secularization of medicine will affect the care of our loved ones, and of ourselves. Further, it is an essential resource for Catholics, and others of good will, so as to advocate on behalf of the [growing] number of categories of people whom modern society deems disposable.
Well written book that is also very-well read.
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Logical, Eye-opening Analysis
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Interesting Topic - well researched
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