Cynthia S W Crysdale
Cynthia S W Crysdale
Arguments against intervening in nature's ways have been used against many new technologies in the last century. Many of these arguments have employed the metaphor of "playing God." In this essay I briefly review the use of the term "playin...
Theo A Boer
Theo A Boer
"When a country legalizes active euthanasia, it puts itself on a slippery slope from where it may well go further downward." If true, this is a forceful argument in the battle of those who try to prevent euthanasia from becoming legal. The ...
Audrey R Chapman
Audrey R Chapman
Rapid breakthroughs in genetic research spurred by the Human Genome Project, advances in molecular biology, and new reproductive technologies are raising the prospect that we may eventually have the technical capacity to modify genes that a...
Janet R Nelson
Janet R Nelson
This paper explores why ethical issues associated with mental illness have been generally neglected in the literature and texts of the discipline of bioethics. I argue that the reasons for this are both philosophical and structural, involvi...
Practicing patients, compassion, and hope at the end of life: mining the passion of Jesus in Luke for a Christian model of dying well [0.03%]
以《路加福音》中的耶稣之爱为镜：基督徒如何慈悲为怀，坦然赴死
Christopher P Vogt
Christopher P Vogt
Four centuries ago, Christian moral theologians addressed the issue of dying by turning to scripture and the virtues. This work revives that tradition by showing that careful theological reflection upon the nature of Christian patience, com...
Ethical issues and approaches in stem cell research: from international insights to a proposal [0.03%]
国际视角下的干细胞研究伦理问题及对策探讨
Andrea Vicini
Andrea Vicini
In recent years and months, human stem cell research has dominated many scientists' interests, the media, public debate, and social policy. This paper aims to consider, first, the major scientific data on stem cell research that are availab...
Cultural bias and liberal neutrality: reconsidering the relationship between religion and liberalism through the lens of the physician-assisted suicide debate [0.03%]
文化偏见与自由主义的中立性——通过安乐死论争重新审视宗教与自由主义的关系
Robert P Jones
Robert P Jones
Liberals often view religion chiefly as "a problem" for democratic discourse in modern pluralistic societies and propose an allegedly neutral solution in the form of philosophical distinctions between "the right" and "the good" or populist ...