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In the face of continuing advances in medical research and treatment, bioethics remains a serious ongoing social concern. For nearly two decades Gilbert Meilaender?s Bioethics has offered discerning Christian guidance on a wide range of pressing issues in medical ethics.

Now in its third edition, Meilaender?s Bioethics covers abortion, assisted reproduction, genetic research, suicide and euthanasia, human experimentation -- and much more -- in language that is theologically informed, straightforward, and clear. This new edition includes updated information throughout and an added discussion of the need to protect Christian conscience in the practice of medicine.

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• Preface to the Third Edition(p. viii)
• Preface to the Second Edition(p. ix)
• Introduction: An Approach to Bioethics(p. xi)
• 1 Christian Vision(p. 1)
• 2 Procreation versus Reproduction(p. 10)
• 3 Abortion(p. 26)
• 4 Genetic Advance(p. 39)
• 5 Prenatal Screening(p. 50)
• 6 Suicide and Euthanasia(p. 57)
• 7 Refusing Treatment(p. 68)
• 8 Who Decides?(p. 79)
• 9 Gifts of the Body: Organ Donation(p. 89)
• 10 Gifts of the Body: Human Experimentation(p. 106)
• 11 Embryos: The Smallest of Research Subjects(p. 116)
• 12 Sickness and Health(p. 127)
• Index(p. 132)

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Gilbert Meilaender holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University and served on the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2009. His other books include Neither Beast Nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person and The Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life.