Bioethics and the Character of Human Life
Essays and Reflections
Published on 18. May 2020
192 pages
978-1-7252-5130-4 (ISBN)
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In the essays collected here Gilbert Meilaender invites readers to reflect upon some of the bioethical issues that are important for all of us. The essays treat bioethics less as a discipline confined to a few experts than as a deeply humanistic set of concerns that inevitably draws us into religious and metaphysical issues. From reflections on his experience as a member of the President's Council on Bioethics to the way in which Christian trinitarian teaching has shaped what it means to be a person, from life's beginning to its ending, these essays offer readers a chance to think about matters of fundamental human significance.
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Gilbert Meilaender taught at the University of Virginia, at Oberlin College, and at Valparaiso University, where he is now Senior Research Professor. The author of many books and articles in theological ethics and bioethics, he served from 2002 to 2009 on The President's Council on Bioethics.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Preface
- Bioethics and Public Life
- Bioethics and the Character of Human Life
- Bioethics in Public
- Biotech Enhancement and the History of Redemption
- Stem Cells and Torture
- Thinking Theologically: Life's Beginning
- The Future of Babymaking
- The End of Sex
- Designing Our Descendants
- A Yellow Light for Gene Editing
- Thinking Theologically: Life's Ending
- How Not to Write (or Think) about Euthanasia
- Gifts of the Body
- Comforting When We Cannot Heal
- Christian Living toward Dying
- Thinking Theologically: To Be a Person
- An Ecumenism of Time
- The "Unrepeatability" of Persons
