Christian Ethics and Biomedical Innovation
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Christian Ethics and Biomedical Innovation

  1. 305 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Christian Ethics and Biomedical Innovation

About this book

In Christian Ethics and Biomedical Innovation, Stephen Goundrey-Smith outlines a strategy for future adoption of human enhancement technologies which will ensure that such technologies are a common good, a strategy which is appropriate for a pluralistic society, yet consistent with Christian ethical principles. Drawing on the history of biomedical innovation to date in pharmaceutical medicine, he argues that technological capability alone is not enough, and that the responsible adoption of enhancement technologies will require active ethical deliberation and robust public policy discourse. Goundrey-Smith argues that biomedical technology, ethics, and public policy together form an essential triad for appropriate future enhancement technology adoption. This approach helps to ensure that biomedical technologies introduced will be common goods, and to reduce the risk of their instrumental use. The use of any technology is closely linked to its sociopolitical and cultural context and, drawing on Augustine's The City of God, Goundrey-Smith presents a theological vision for good biomedical technology innovation in human society.

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Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2024
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781978789890
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Ethics & Religion

Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: Theological Foundations: Creation, Vocation, and Co-Creation
  8. Chapter 2: Health Technology: Modern and Post-Modern
  9. Chapter 3: Public Bodies: The State and the Governance of Human Function
  10. Chapter 4: Consensus or Control: Biomedical Technology and Public Policy
  11. Chapter 5: Biomedical Technology, Ethics, and Public Policy: Towards an Essential Triad
  12. Chapter 6: Fulfilling Life: A Tale of Two Cities
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index
  15. About the Author

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