The Theology of the Body: Some Reflections on the Significance for Medical Professionals

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Prokes Mary Timothy FSE, Toward a Theology of the Body (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996 0, 20.

Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women (New York: Simon and Schuster,1973). See: http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/about/default.asp

Martin , 7.

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Rahner Karl “The Theology of the Symbol,” Theological Investigations 4 (New York: Seabury, 1966), 221–252.

Watkins Rachel http://www.exceptionalmarriages.com/weblog/ May 5, 2005.

Wojtyla Karol Love and Responsibility, H.T. Willetts, trans (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1993).

John Paul Pope II The Theology of the Body: Human Love in the Divine Plan (Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 1997).

Love and Responsibility, 270–8.

Theology of the Body (TotB), 16.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/histcouncils/iiVaticancouncil/documents/vat-iicons19651207gaudium-et-spesen.html.

TotB, 162, 60.

See especially the discussion of marriage in TotB, 304–385.

Prokes , 97.

Johnson Elizabeth She Who Is: The Mystery of God in a Feminist Theological Discourse (New York: Crossroad, 1992), 155–6.

Cahill Lisa Sowle Women and Sex (New York: Paulist Press, 1992), 51–54.

TotB, 80ff.

Avery Dulles S.J. The Splendor of Faith: The Theological Vision of Pope John Paul II, 2nd ed. (New York: Crossroad, 2003), 149.

Cahill Larry “His Brain, Her Brain,” Scientific American (April 25, 2005), 40–47. See: http://vvw.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&collD=l&articleID=000363E3-1806-1264-980683414B7F0000 (April 29, 2005).

Weigel George Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (New York: Cliff Street Books, 1999), 342–3.

Rousseau Mary “Deriving Bioethical Norms from the Theology of the Body.” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (3: 1, Spring 2003), 59.

Space limitations will prevent me from going into all of these implications.

The principle of totality allows a medical procedure to sacrifice the part for the sake of the integrity of the whole. For instance, one may remove a cancerous testicle to save the life or overall functioning of the human person.

Also Hippocrates.

Hughes Howard C. Sensory Exotica: A World Beyond Human Experience (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), p. 302. For more on the effect of OCPs and other hormonal therapies on women, see Barbara Seaman. The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women (New York: Hyperion, 2003); Ellen Grant. Sexual Chemistry: Understanding Our Hormones, the Pill and HRT (Reed International Books, 1996). Thanks to Vicki Thorn of Project Rachel for these references.

Pope Paul VI Institute, See https://www.popepaulvi.com

The judgment would have to be made on a case by case basis. Consider, for instance, a man who has a pronounced facial tic. If it could be treated by snipping the nerve at that point, resulting in a microparalysis, one would have to judge whether the tic is more of a barrier to authentic personal communication or a “deadened” face.

Rousseau 62.

See http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/hippocrates.

As an example, in a presentation given at the conference Authentic Women s Health and Natural Family Planning held at Marquette University (June 11, 2005), Dr. Kathleen M. Raviele stated that one of the many reasons she is reluctant to prescribe OCPs for therapeutic purposes is because it is documented that sexually inactive patients often begin sexual activity soon after being put on the pill.

Ashley Benedict A Theological Overview on Recent Research on Sex and Gender, in Sex and Gender: A Theological and Scientific Inquiry. Schartz Mark F. Sc.D. , eds. (St. Louis: The Pope John Center, 1983), 23.

Ashley Benedict A Theological Overview on Recent Research on Sex and Gender, in Sex and Gender: A Theological and Scientific Inquiry. Schartz Mark F. Sc.D. , eds. (St. Louis: The Pope John Center, 1983), 12–13.

The Couple to Couple League summarizes this evidence at http://ccli.org/nfp/marriage/index.php. See also Fehring Richard J. Toward a Model of Fertility Integration, in Life and Learning IV, ed. Koterski Joseph W. (Washington, DC: University Faculty for Life, 1995), pp. 216–29 for a discussion of several studies that provide evidence for improved marital intimacy with NFP.

Researchers from Flemington, NJ-based HCD Research and Allentown, PA-based Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion. www.kaisernetwork.org See: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/repindex.cfm?DRID=29931. Accessed May 11, 2005.

Ashley 26–29.

McHugh Paul Surgical Sex, First Things 147 (November, 2004) 34–38.

Prokes 154.

Rousseau 60.

Cited in Prokes, 129.

When I was a child my ophthalmologist, Dr. Tullos O. Coston, used to check my eyes regularly for glaucoma (which is a common side effect of the surgery I had for congenital cataracts). He had and used one of those huge machines that has a chin rest and uses a blue lighted probe to touch your numbed eye to check the pressure. But he would first use his fingers to touch my closed eyes to feel for the glaucoma. He is the only ophthalmologist who has ever touched my eyes in this way, thus giving me a sense of personal care that I haven t had since.

Rousseau 61.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar. Glory of the Lord V (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1991), 611–656.

Fisher Helen The First Sex (New York: Random House, 1999), 116–120.

One has to admit that in our day sensitivity to the issue of sexual abuse, including the liability issue, has made warm personal interaction more difficult.

The Challenge of l Arche, introduction and conclusion by Jean Vanier (Minneapolis, MN: Winston Press, 1981), 277. This quotation was cited by Ellen Roderick in an article entitled Two Theologies of the Body: Jean Vanier and Joint Paul II, This article is no longer accessible on the internet.

Fisher 131.

Fisher , 130. Statistics from P. Braus, How Women Will Change Medicine, American Demographics (November, 1994), 40-47.

Fisher , 113.