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Product Identifiers
PublisherB&H
ISBN-101433684276
ISBN-139781433684272
eBay Product ID (ePID)219378658
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameChristian Bioethics : a Guide for Pastors, Health Care Professionals, and Families
Publication Year2014
SubjectEthics, Christian Theology / Ethics
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, Medical
AuthorD. Joy Riley, C. Ben Mitchell
SeriesB&H Studies in Christian Ethics Ser.
FormateBook
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
eBook FormatEPUB
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal174.2
SynopsisA biblically informed guidebook for Christians facing difficult health care decisions, from the making of life (infertility, organ donation, cloning) and taking of life (abortion, euthanasia) to the technologically driven faking of life (genetic engineering, etc.)., 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 accessible way. C. Ben Mitchell and D. Joy Riley let readers eavesdrop on their conversation about the training of doctors, the interpretation of the Bible, and controversial issues like abortion, assisted-suicide, genetic engineering, and in vitro fertilization. The book examines these topics under three general headings: the taking of life, the making of life, and the faking of life. Christian Bioethics is a guidebook for pastors, health care professionals and families--anyone facing difficult decisions about health care.
