Late modern medicine is undergoing a technological revolution. Whether or not the end result of this transformation will prove to be good or ill is an open question, because it is being driven by larger, often opaque, social and political forces shaping late modernity. This lecture examines these forces and their philosophical foundations. It is argued that one problematic feature of this transformation is that “medicine” is moving away from providing the care and cure of patients, and heading toward constructing the “patient” as a technological artifact. Moreover, secular bioethics can offer no compelling reason why such construction should not be pursued. Consequently, the traditional relationship between physician and patient is now endangered, as well as larger forms of human associations. In response, a counter Christian account of bioethics is proposed, one that is grounded in the good gift of embodiment, thereby calling for a fellowship of the begotten rather than the made or constructed.