vol. 39, Issue #4

Online Journal Article: REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING AND PAUL’S THORN IN THE FLESH - RONALD RUSSELL* JETS 39/4 (December 1996) 559–570

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REDEMPTIVE SUFFERING
AND PAUL’S THORN IN THE FLESH -
RONALD RUSSELL*
JETS 39/4 (December 1996) 559–570

Excerpt
Recently an evangelical theologian ventured into the field of medical ethics with the tone of an old-fashioned evangelist on the sawdust trail to urge a return to Hippocratic medicine and a rejection of a “new medicine” practiced today whose focus is the relief of suffering. Nigel Cameron understands Hippocrates (the “father of modern medicine”) and his followers as a reform minded enterprise in ancient Greek medicine that championed the physician as healer with a sense of the sanctity of life within a society where the relief of suffering was the normative medicine model and included physician assisted suicide.
An opposing viewpoint bemoans the modern medical preoccupation with prolonging life and terms this pursuit a “new medicine.” This concern to prolong life is thought to be rooted in Baconian science, which sought to exercise dominion over nature. --from page 559