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

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

Resumen
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.

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2002

A Horizon in bioethics series book

Descripción física
xii, 201 p. ; 23 cm.

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

Término de la materia
Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
 
Medical ethics.
 
Christian ethics.
 
Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
 
Medical ethics -- Social aspects.

Autor añadido
Kilner, John Frederic.
 
Uustal, Diane B.
 
Hook, C. Christopher.

Síntesis
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

Información de publicación
Grand Rapids, MI : W.B. Eerdmans, 2002.


BibliotecaSignatura topográficaTipo de materialCódigo de barras del documentoEstado
Edmonton Christian High174 CUTBook30905000046536Non-Fiction