Medical ethics

Editor's note: "The wise builders will build on the stone at the head of the corner; and so Christian Science, the little leaven hid in three measures of meal,—ethics, medicine, and religion,—is rapidly fermenting, and enlightening the world with the glory of untrammelled truth" (Mary Baker Eddy, Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p. 2).

This leavening of world thought is aided through each Christian Scientist's interaction with many segments of society. The Committee on Publication had the opportunity to attend a medical ethics conference which combined all "three measures of meal" and to help raise thought in this particular arena.

The subject of the week-long conference in 1993, sponsored by The Institute of Religion at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, was "Recovering the Traditions: Religious Perspectives in Medical Ethics." The meeting provided an opportunity for hospital chaplains, nurses, university professors, and medical students to discuss a new role for religion in the healing and treating of patients.

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