Book contents
- Complex Ethics Consultations
- Reviews
- Complex Ethics Consultations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Additional Contributors to the Second Edition
- Contributors to the First Edition (Original Biographies from the First Edition)
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction to the First Edition
- Part I Starting at the Beginning
- Part II The Most Vulnerable of Us
- Part III Diversity of Desires and Limits of Liberty
- Part IV Withholding Therapy with a Twist
- Part V The Unspeakable/Unassailable
- Chapter 17 Adolescent Pregnancy, Confidentiality, and Culture
- Chapter 18 “Tanya, the One with Jonathan’s Kidney”
- Chapter 19 Futility, Islam, and Death
- Chapter 20 Suffering as God’s Will
- Commentary 5 Reflections on Part V
- Part VI Human Guinea Pigs and Miracles
- Part VII The Big Picture:
- Conclusions, Educational Activities, and References (Revised for Second Edition)
- Index
- References
Chapter 20 - Suffering as God’s Will
from Part V - The Unspeakable/Unassailable
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2025
Book contents
- Complex Ethics Consultations
- Reviews
- Complex Ethics Consultations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Additional Contributors to the Second Edition
- Contributors to the First Edition (Original Biographies from the First Edition)
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Introduction to the First Edition
- Part I Starting at the Beginning
- Part II The Most Vulnerable of Us
- Part III Diversity of Desires and Limits of Liberty
- Part IV Withholding Therapy with a Twist
- Part V The Unspeakable/Unassailable
- Chapter 17 Adolescent Pregnancy, Confidentiality, and Culture
- Chapter 18 “Tanya, the One with Jonathan’s Kidney”
- Chapter 19 Futility, Islam, and Death
- Chapter 20 Suffering as God’s Will
- Commentary 5 Reflections on Part V
- Part VI Human Guinea Pigs and Miracles
- Part VII The Big Picture:
- Conclusions, Educational Activities, and References (Revised for Second Edition)
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter of Complex Ethics Consultations: Cases that Haunt Us, the authors describe a 70-year-old man who is refusing all options available to him and expresses faith that his suffering must have some meaning since it was "God’s will." The team struggled with apparently inconsistent patient expressions of turning down surgery but insisting on attempted resuscitation. The case additionally highlights the uncertainty involved in medical decision making.
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- Complex Ethics ConsultationsCases that Haunt Us, pp. 156 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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