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Bioethics: A Primer for Christians by Gilbert Meilaender
Encyclopedia of Bioethics by Stephen G. Post Covering a wealth of topics on the ethics of health professions, animal research, population control and the environment, the set helps researchers to consider the impact of new scientific knowledge and its potential to harm or benefit present and future generations.
Call Number: DIVINITY, Trowbridge Reference Room, QH332 .E52 2004 (LC)
Health Care and Christian Ethics by Robin Gill Examines the 'moral gaps' in secular accounts of health care ethics and the tensions within specifically theological accounts. Explores the healing stories in the Synoptic Gospels, identifying four core virtues present within them - compassion, care, faith and humility - that might bring greater depth to a purely secular interpretation of health care ethics.
Medicine, Health Care, and Ethics: Catholic Voices (Online) by John F. Morris A collection of contemporary essays that represent the very best efforts of current Catholic scholarship in the field of health care and medical ethics.
Science and Christian Ethics by Paul J. Scherz Argues that what individual scientists need is a regime of spiritual exercises, such as those found in Stoicism as it was adopted by Christianity, in order to refocus on the good of truth in the face of institutional pressure.

Environmental Issues

Ecomartyrdom in the Americas: Living and Dying for our Common Home by Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo Explores the meaning of the witness of environmental defenders in relation to three recent developments in Catholic theology: the expanded understanding of martyrdom to include those who die in defense of gospel values; the expansion of Catholic social teaching to include care for creation; and the call for interreligious dialogue and cooperation.
Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (Online) by J. Baird Callicott (Editor); Robert Frodeman (Editor) Examines the philosophical and ethical issues underlying contemporary and historical environmental issues, policies, and debates.
The Ethics of Animal Experimentation by Donna Yarri Presents an argument for significantly restricted animal experimentation.
The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics (Online) by Mari Joerstad Examines an ignored feature of the Hebrew Bible: its attribution of activity and affect to trees, fields, soil, and mountains. This book traces the activity of non-animal nature through the canon of the Hebrew Bible.
The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics (Online) by Tom L. Beauchamp (Editor); R. G. Frey (Editor) Explores theoretical issues about animal minds and an array of practical concerns about animal products, farm animals, hunting, circuses, zoos, the entertainment industry, safety-testing on animals, the status and moral significance of species, environmental ethics, the nature and significance of the minds of animals, and so on.

Christian Ethics Guide: Bioethics and Environment

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