Cutting-edge bioethics : a Christian exploration of technologies and trends

Title
Cutting-edge bioethics : a Christian exploration of technologies and trends

Summary
This new volume from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity provides a faith-based evalucation of recent technologies and trends in bioethics - including the current debate surrounding stem cell research. Fifteen noted scholars and medical practitioners discuss some of today's new and controversial work in biomedicine - xenotransplantation, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and more - and appraise from a Christian perspective both the science and the ethical questions it raises.

Year Published
2002

Series
A Horizon in bioethics series book

Physical Description
xii, 201 p. ; 23 cm.

Note
At head of title: The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity.

Subject
Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
 
Medical ethics.
 
Christian ethics.
 
Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
 
Medical ethics -- Social aspects.

Added Author
Kilner, John Frederic.
 
Uustal, Diane B.
 
Hook, C. Christopher.

Summary
This new volume from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity provides a faith-based evalucation of recent technologies and trends in bioethics - including the current debate surrounding stem cell research. Fifteen noted scholars and medical practitioners discuss some of today's new and controversial work in biomedicine - xenotransplantation, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and more - and appraise from a Christian perspective both the science and the ethical questions it raises.

ISBN
9780802849595

Publisher
Grand Rapids, MI : W.B. Eerdmans, 2002.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Edmonton Christian High174 CUTBook30905000046536Non-Fiction