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Bioethics Bibliography

The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's position or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.

Foundations of Bioethics

These resources provide an introduction to the core concepts, methodology, and history of bioethics.

Bioethics Cross-Cultural Bibliography

The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's position and, likewise, may or may not be consistent with a biblical worldview. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.

Materials

Baxter, Carol (ed.), Managing Diversity and Inequality in Health Care. London: Baillière Tindall, 2001.

Baxter, Carol, Race Equality in Health Care and Education. London: Baillière Tindall, 1997.

Biotechnology Meets Primetime TV

Author: 
Michael J. Sleasman, PhD

It is no secret that bioethical content has been the fodder for both film and television for quite some time. The mainstay of science fiction films for years has ranged from cyborgs (Bicentennial Man) and artificial intelligence (AI, I Robot) to bizarre human experimentation and research (The X-Files: I Want to Believe), such as genetic enhancement (GATTACA), organ farming (The Island), and cloning (The 6th Day) just to name a few more.


Length: 12:01

2009 Global Bioethics Conference CD

$25.00

An MP3 CD containing all eight plenaries from the 2009 Summer Conference Global Bioethics: Emerging Challenges Facing Human Dignity:

$25.00

Natural Law & Reformed Bioethics: Another Look

Author: 
Hans Madueme, MD

Sex, without babies? Behold the origin of our conundrums in reproductive ethics! Our culture developed the technology to separate the sexual act from procreation, classically with the extramarital use of the Pill (in the sexual revolution), and thus was unleashed a host of problems that have plagued us ever since. So the argument goes.1 We would have no reproductive ethical dilemmas had we kept together the sexual act and procreation.


Length: 8:54

Do no harm?

Author: 
Gregory W. Rutecki, MD

One Christian-Hippocratic position pertaining to the essentials of ethical medical practice has been unequivocal. There should be total separation between “black and white” medicine as described through the pregnant admonition: “do no harm.” Originally, the “black” side of medicine could be summarized neatly by two activities proscribed within the body of the Hippocratic Oath itself, abortion and euthanasia (or assisted suicide).


Length: 7:45

Beyond Perfectionism

Author: 
Michael J. Sleasman, PhD

With the Olympics soundly behind us and the rhythms of the fall launch of new television episodes well established, several reflections come to mind. An interesting thread below all of the accomplishments of the  elite athletes during the Beijing Olympics were concerns over doping of various sorts. Artificial enhancements, steroids, hormones. These are not new issues surrounding the elite athletic competitions of our day, but they increasingly are becoming difficult to evaluate.


Length: 9:22

Ethics and Metaphysics?

Author: 
David C. Cramer, MDiv

At The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity’s 14th annual conference last summer—‘The Bioethics Nexus: The Future of Healthcare, Science, and Humanity’—world renowned Notre Dame philosopher Alvin Plantinga gave a plenary address entitled, “Science and Religion: Why Does the Debate Continue?”1 In his address he reflected on some of the misguided assumptions on the part of both scientists and people of faith that serve to perpetuate this ongoing debate.


Length: 5:17