Dr Calum MacKellar

Broschiertes Buch

Christianity and the New Eugenics

Should We Choose To Have Only Healthy Or Enhanced Children?

Beschreibung

First examination from a Christian perspective of the ethical implications of new eugenic procedures.

Autor

Director of Research of a medical charity in Scotland and a Visiting Lecturer in Bioethics at St Mary's University in London, England. He is also a Fellow with the Centre for Bioethics and Human Dignity at Trinity International University, Chicago, USA. In 1998, he was ordained an elder of the Church of Scotland (the Reformed and Presbyterian national church in Scotland since 1560) and was a member of its Church and Society Council from 2005 to 2013. Previously, he had been a senior civil servant with the Bioethics Division of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. He is the author of The Image of God, Personhood and the Embryo (SCM Press) and the co-editor of several volumes on biomedical ethics including The Ethics of the New Eugenics (Berghahn Books).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inter-Varsity Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9781783599134
• ISBN-10: 1783599138
• Artikelnr.: 59362086