The foundations of Christian bioethics
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The foundations of Christian bioethics
Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, c2000
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Includes index
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This volume addresses the morality at the foundations of Christian bioethics. Drawing on the Christianity of the first millennium, Engelhardt provides the ontological and epistemological foundations for a Christian bioethics that can remedy the onesidedness of a secular bioethics.
Table of Contents
- From Christian bioethics to secular bioethics - the establishement of a liberal cosmopolitan morality
- at the roots of bioethics - reason, faith and the unity of morality
- Christian bioethics as a human project - taking immanence seriously
- bioethics and transcendence - at the heart of the culture wars
- procreation - reproduction, cloning, abortion and birth
- suffering, disease, dying and death - the search for meaning
- providing health care - consent, conflicts of interest, the allocation of medical resources and religious integrity
- Christian bioethics in a post-Christian world.
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