title: Not without hope: a Reformed analysis of sickness and sin.
abstract: A Reformed understanding of sickness requires that connections be drawn between the structural effects of sin and the ways that sickness is experienced in people's lives. Such an understanding can be an important resource for the bioethicist, both the bioethicist who speaks from the Reformed tradition and the bioethicist who speaks to patients and caregivers who may assume that sin and sickness are connected, but may understand that linkage in overly simplistic ways.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Groenhout
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D001294:Attitude to Health; D004194:Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D026822:Ethicists; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D010349:Patient Compliance; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D033303:Protestantism; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D028725:Theology