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As part of its 1995 review of its health care policy and program the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) adopted a resolution, a “call to healing and wholeness”:
This church, as the body of Christ, is called to be a community of health and healing in every level and location of its common life. It is called to live out, sustain, and promote health within its own life and within the larger community. It is called to carry out the purposes of a sovereign, health-giving God, through ministries of compassion, service, and advocacy for justice. It is called to reclaim its heritage of healing and wholeness ([3], p. 3).
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Verhey, A. (1997). Bioethics in the Reformed Tradition. In: Lustig, B.A. (eds) Bioethics Yearbook. Bioethics Yearbook, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0904-0_13
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