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[Book Review] Alcohol, Addiction and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) by Cook, Christopher C. H
Miller, Mark
Miller, Mark
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"A clinical bioethicist, conversing with Emergency Department staff about how to deal ethically with alcoholics and other addicts, seldom gets the opportunity to sit back and think about the ethical issues around alcohol and addiction. Hence, we tend to pick up the common language of social work and medicine (a disease) or fall back on a history of ‘temperance, pledges, prohibition, and moral blame’ from vague uncritical experience. Alcohol, Addiction and Christian Ethics proved a most interesting read for two reasons. First, Christopher Cook speaks clearly as a Christian ethicist, probing the experience and refl ection from 2000 years of Christian theology (including ethics) dealing with alcohol problems. He argues that Christian insight can be helpful in the public forum. Second, he gives a very clear ethical analysis out of Christian thought—which presents a number of varied approaches to the issues—in conjunction with present-day scientifi c insights concerning addiction. And while Cook focuses on alcohol because of its historical place in addiction, what he says can be extrapolated for other addictive behaviours so common in our society."(pg 1)
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