Bioethical Issues: Understanding and Responding to the Culture of Death
Overview
John R. Ling surveys new technologies which present serious bioethical considerations such as savior siblings, human cloning, three-parent IVF, and regenerative medicine, as well as the “old” bioethical issues of abortion, surrogacy, infanticide, and euthanasia. Ling argues that we now live in a culture of death—and that in ethics and practices, modern medicine has departed from its historic roots, and started to threaten life instead of save it. This book does not seek trite, comfortable answers. Rather, it develops a rugged bioethical framework, based on principles derived from the Bible and supported by analyses of recent trends in medicine and science. Ling calls for a response of “principled compassion” to overcome this culture of death and gain a culture of life.
- Title: Bioethical Issues: Understanding and Responding to the Culture of Death
- Author: John R. Ling
- Edition: Revised & Updated
- Series: Biblical Ethics
- Publisher: Day One
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian ethics; Bioethics › Religious aspects--Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781846254277, 1846254272
- Resource ID: LLS:BIOETHICALISSUES
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:14:03Z