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Christian bioethics : a guide for pastors, health care professionals, and families / C. Ben Mitchell & D. Joy Riley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: B & H studies in Christian ethicsPublisher: Nashville, Tennessee : B & H Academic, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781433684272
  • 1433684276
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Christian bioethics.DDC classification:
  • 241.642 M69c 2014 22
LOC classification:
  • QH332 .M58 2014eb
NLM classification:
  • 2015 G-301
  • WB 60
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
pt. I. Christian bioethics -- 1. Which doctors? : whose medicine? -- 2. From ancient book to the twenty-first century -- pt. II. Taking life -- 3. The sanctity of human life and abortion -- 4. Human dignity and dying -- pt. III. Making life -- 5. Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies -- 6. Organ donation and transplantation -- 7. Clones and human-animal hybrids -- pt. IV. Remaking/faking life -- 8. Aging and life-extension technologies.
Summary: Living in an era of highly technical medicine is comforting and sometimes confusing. How should Christians make life and death decisions? How do we move from an ancient text like the Bible to twenty-first-century questions about organ transplantation, stem-cell research, and human cloning? What kind of care do we owe one another at the end of life? Is euthanasia a Christian option? Using a dialogue format, an ethicist and physician talk about how to think about thorny ethical issues. Combining their backgrounds in medicine and theology, they deal with real-life moral questions in an accessib.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

pt. I. Christian bioethics -- 1. Which doctors? : whose medicine? -- 2. From ancient book to the twenty-first century -- pt. II. Taking life -- 3. The sanctity of human life and abortion -- 4. Human dignity and dying -- pt. III. Making life -- 5. Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies -- 6. Organ donation and transplantation -- 7. Clones and human-animal hybrids -- pt. IV. Remaking/faking life -- 8. Aging and life-extension technologies.

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Living in an era of highly technical medicine is comforting and sometimes confusing. How should Christians make life and death decisions? How do we move from an ancient text like the Bible to twenty-first-century questions about organ transplantation, stem-cell research, and human cloning? What kind of care do we owe one another at the end of life? Is euthanasia a Christian option? Using a dialogue format, an ethicist and physician talk about how to think about thorny ethical issues. Combining their backgrounds in medicine and theology, they deal with real-life moral questions in an accessib.