"In the past several decades biotechnologies have provided patients with a multitude of means to address illness and disability. Some biotechnologies, such as reproductive technologies and genetic enhancements, have created significant questions about the appropriateness of medical progress, and carry ethical and social implications for society. Should biotechnology move full steam ahead? Or should we show some degree of restraint? Amid ..."
"Amid current arguments related to human life and dignity, Christians must be clear about how their faith speaks to such concerns and what other outlooks have to say. This book brings together noted ethicists--Russell DiSilvestro, David P. Gushee, Amy Laura Hall, John F. Kilner, Gilbert C. Meilaender, Scott B. Rae, and Patrick T. Smith--to make a Christian case for human dignity. It offers a robust critique of five influential alternativ ..."
"Twenty leading experts in the bioethics debate here engage matters of dignity and dying from a Christian perspective. The book begins with essays by David Schiedermayer, Arlene Miller, and Gregory Waybright that root the book in the experience of dying itself. This is followed by contributions from Nigel Cameron, John Dunlop, Marsha Fowler, and Allen Verhey on the topics that provide the guiding vision for approaches to dignity and dyin ..."
"Cutting-edge medical ethics issues are addressed by nationally recognized experts. "The BioBasics Series" confronts the maze of challenging questions raised by twenty-first-century bio-technology with biblical responses and uncompromising respect for all human life."
"This book from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity provides a faith-based evaluation of recent technologies and trends in bioethics--including the current debate surrounding stem cell research. Fifteen noted scholars and medical practitioners discuss some of today's new and controversial work in biomedicine--xenotransplantation, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and more--and evaluate from a Christian perspective both the sci ..."
Dignity and Destiny Humanity in the Image of God by JohnFredericKilner Paperback, 414 Pages, Published 2015 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-6764-3, ISBN: 0-8028-6764-2
"Misunderstandings about what it means for humans to be created in God's image have wreaked devastation throughout history -- for example, slavery in the U. S., genocide in Nazi Germany, and the demeaning of women everywhere. In Dignity and Destiny John Kilner explores what the Bible itself teaches about humanity being in God's image. He discusses in detail all of the biblical references to the image of God, interacts extensively wit ..."
"In response to the many changes currently going on in health care, this book offers the combined insight and wisdom of a stellar group of scholars and professionals with extensive experience in the health care field. The book opens with a look at people's actual experience of health care today, from four different perspectives. It then addresses foundational questions, including the nature of medicine, nursing, and justice. Surveyed nex ..."
"The extensive attention devoted to abortion has led Christians for too long to overlook much of the exploding bioethics agenda. Moreover, to focus only on 'issues' is to fail to address the profound changes taking place in the very nature of the medical profession. This book signals the commitment of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity to help expand the church's bioethical vision and to foster a more substantial Christian contri ..."
"A challenging look at today's most hotly debated issues in bioethics. Within the high-paced, highly controverted field of bioethics, the most hotly debated issues center on sexuality, reproductive technology, and the family. This new volume from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity provides a thought-provoking appraisal of the ethical dimension of the reproductive revolution from a Christian perspective. Thirty scholars a ..."
"... by giving gifts ' . . . that some would be aposdes, some prophets, some
evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of
ministry, for building up the body of Christ . ... In this community, we are all priests
to one another, ministering within and outside the church walls. ... Herein, as with
shalom, one is never a solitary, self-sufficient individual but always a person-in-
community."
"John Kilner, John Frederic Kilner. Contributors Mary B. Adam, M.D., is a
pediatrician who has ... John F. Kilner, Ph.D., is President of The Center for
Bioethics and Human Dignity, Bannockburn, Illinois. Donal P. O'Mathúna, Ph.D.,
is Professor of ..."
"The Vital Questions series presents the thinking of knowledgeable, qualified authors on "vital questions" that Christians should be able to discuss intelligently. These concise books provide to-the-point answers and present the author's viewpoint, while allowing room for reader thought and disagreement. Cloning: Does God Need Our Help? Stem cell research . . . cloning . . . end-of-life issues . . . infertility treatments . . . These top ..."
"Each booklet in the Bio Basics Series gives information describing the controversy of the issue and the implications for Christians and the church. The series addresses each concern with answers that will honor God and protect a humanity created in His image. Written from an evangelical Christian perspective, these resources should be read by both Christians and non-Christians as they address contemporary issues often discussed in the m ..."
"Advances in reproductive technology have raised questions for Christians about the ethics of such practices as surrogate motherhood, donor sperm, and human cloning. Six Christian scholars address these issues in this helpful booklet."
"... What Is Not? Timothy J. Demy Gary P. Stewart, John F. Kilner ... Walter A.
Brown, "The Placebo Effect," Scientific American (January 1998): 90-95. 13.
Blecher ... 14. Geoffrey Cowley, "Herbal Warning: Health-Food Stores Have Built
a 92 XLIV."
"How can decisions be made on who should receive organ transplants, intensive care or newly developed drugs? This book examines a variety of patient-selection criteria and assesses them according to a range of ethical arguments."
Who Lives? Who Dies? Ethical Criteria in Patient Selection by JohnFredericKilner, Jf Kilner Hardcover, 359 Pages, Published 1990 by Yale Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-300-04680-9, ISBN: 0-300-04680-4
"How can decisions be made on who should receive organ transplants, intensive care or newly developed drugs? This book examines a variety of patient-selection criteria and assesses them according to a range of ethical arguments."
"Postmodernism, with its celebrated rejection of authority, reason, context and
meaning, is laid bare. ... In the words of one literary critic, legal interpretation
becomes 'not the art of construing but the art of constructing'.24 The deconstruc-
... innocently in English Literature departments but has inevitably spilled over into
history departments and schools of law. ... John Carey, Merton Professor of
English at Oxford Universi ..."