Ethics

Articles:

• Learning to play God by Prof John Bryant Article from Third Way Magazine
• Don’t my genes determine my behaviour? by Prof John Bryant.
• The Faraday Paper on Ethical Issues in Genetic Modification by Prof John Bryant.
• Embryos and Genes, Clones and Cybrids: Aspects of the 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act by Prof John Bryant. Part of Ethics in Brief, a succinct, insightful set of articles on a range of contemporary ethical issues from a Christian perspectives. Produced by the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics.
• Briefing: “Stem Cells” (pdf 400 KB) by Prof John Bryant
• Uses and abuses of genetic engineering (manuscript, pdf 158 KB), published in Postgrad. Med. J., May 2003; 79: 249 – 251. Dr Denis Alexander
• Why the apparent haste to clone humans? (J Med Ethics 32 (2006) 298-302)
  Dr Neville Cobbe
• Stem cells and Therapeutic Cloning (pdf 208 KB) (from about 2001)
  Prof Derek Burke
• Cloning after Dolly (pdf 225 KB) (from about 2001)
  Prof Derek Burke
• What is Genetic Engineering? (pdf 213KB) (from about 2001)
  Prof Derek Burke
• Why is there such a fuss about the genetic engineering of crops? (pdf, 222 KB) (from about 2001)
  Prof Derek Burke
• Will genetic engineering help feed the world or not? (pdf, 218) (from about 2001)
  Prof Derek Burke

Books:

A previous chairman of CiS, Prof John Bryant, has written a number of books on the subject of Bioethics including:

• Life in our hands: A Christian perspective on genetics and cloning , written with John Searle, and based on lectures given at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity
• Introduction to Bioethics
  written with Linda Baggott La Velle and John Searle.

Cambridge Lectures:

• Playing God: Scientific, Ethical, and Theological Challenges
  Prof Gareth Jones
• Stem Cells
  Lord Walton of Detchant

Links:

• Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics (KLICE). An organisation which promotes high-quality academically-informed reflection on contemporary Christian ethics. Excellent resources section for those wishing to explore a broad range of ethical topics.
• The Christian Medical Fellowship website has a very comprehensive section on ethics and public policy. Ethics for Schools (CMF) is a collection of articles written by Christian doctors which have been reproduced here especially for those studying religious studies, philosophy or ethics.
• Media, culture, genomics, thoughts, news and comment from researchers on the CESAGen Media, Culture and Genomics project
• Society, Religion and Technology Project of the Church of Scotland has some thoughtful resources.
• ASA compilation of essays on ethics
• Resources from the Cambridge Papers An excellent source of Christian thinking on contemporary issues. Here are a few that directly relate to bioethics and/or technology:
  • Euthanasia and assisted suicide John Wyatt, June 2010
  • Enhancing humans or a new creation? Denis R. Alexander, June 2009
  • Worshipping God with technology Denis R. Alexander, December 2003
  • Cloning humans – distorting the image of God? Denis R. Alexander, December 2001
  • Can science explain everything? Denis R. Alexander, June 1999
  • Genetic engineering in God’s world Denis R. Alexander, June 1997

Click here for a list of links to more bioethics organisations around the world.