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May, William Francis was born on October 25, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Harry Stuart and Leontine Frances (Torczynski) May.
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Professor of Theology at Smith College, William F. May wrote this book in answer to what he viewed as Christianity's focus on sin in general, rather than the specific sins that we are guilty of that keep us out of relationship with the Creator. He addresses these in good company, as this was the thinking of the medieval moralists as well as the nineteenth century liberal Protestant preachers. The specific sins that he addresses are: **The Sins of Man With His World (false worship--impurity of heart, the sin of faintheartedness, and avarice); **The Sins of Man With His Neighbor (envy, hatred, neglect, betrayal, and lust); **The Strategy and Atmosphere of Sin (deceit, craving and anxiety); and **The Destination of Sin (pride and sloth).
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William F. May, a leading expert on medical ethics, here explores two of today's most crucial tests of the medical covenant - active euthanasia and health care reform. May begins with an incisive introduction that delineates the covenantal, or relational, nature of the practice of medicine over against the merely contractual view - the quid pro quos of the commercial buying and selling of professional services. In the subsequent chapters, May follows the implications of the medical covenant with respect to the related issues of euthanasia and health care reform. He also provides a covenantal view of professional character and virtue - what virtues we should look for in covenanted physicians and nurses - discusses the limits of the medical covenant in the face of medical futility, and examines the implications of covenant keeping for the shape of future health care reform.
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Professionals today wield an enormous public power. Collectively, their decisions affect the patient's plight, the client's fate, the student's future, the city's scape, the Earth's sustainability, the worker's fair treatment, and the durability of institution's great and small. Yet professionals do not perceive themselves as power wielders. They feel beleaguered, marginal, insufficiently appreciated, often under siege. Thus they tend to obscure for themselves their obligation to the common good. This book explores eight professions as they struggle with their double identity--as a means to livelihood and as a "common calling in the spirit of public service." An interpretation of American culture emerges from its pages, as social critic William May opens up the ways in which each profession answers to something deep in the American spirit.
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May, William Francis was born on October 25, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Harry Stuart and Leontine Frances (Torczynski) May.
AB, Princeton University, 1948; Bachelor's Degree, Yale University, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1962.
Assistant professor, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1956-1962; associate professor, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1962-1965; professor, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1966; department chairman, Smith College, Northampton, 1959-1962, 64-66; professor, chairman, Indiana U., Bloomington, Indiana, 1966-1971; chairman, founder religious studies department, Indiana U., Bloomington, Indiana, 1971-1976; J.P. Kennedy professor Christian ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, 1980-1985; Cary M. Maguire professor ethics, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, since 1985; director Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, since 1995. Founding fellow Hastings Center.
( Professionals today wield an enormous public power. Col...)
(Professor of Theology at Smith College, William F. May wr...)
(William F. May, a leading expert on medical ethics, here ...)
Member work group on ethical foundations, Clinton task force on health care reform The White House, Washington, 1993. Member president's council on bioethics, White House, 2002-2004. Member American Academy Religion (president 1974-1975, Outstanding Teacher in Religious Studies award 1993), Society for Values in Higher Education, Society for Christian Ethics (president 2002).
Married Beverly Wilson May, June 28, 1952. Children: Catherine, Theodore, David, Elisabeth.