Ethics

Articles

• “Thinking About…Bioethics” by Pete Moore
• “Thinking About…Genetic Modification” by John Bryant
• “Thinking About…Stem Cells” by Paul Fairchild
• “Thinking About…Human Enhancement” by Justin Tomkins
• 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

Multimedia

• Matters of Life and Death
  Prof John Wyatt speaks at the CiS Central South local group on the 15th November 2012.
  Audio (mp3, 17.0 MB)
• How scientists view religion and ethics
  A lecture given by Dr Elaine Howard Ecklund at the 2012 CiS Residential Conference
  Audio (mp3 9.0MB)
  
• Ethical issues raised by cognitive and moral bioenhancement
  A lecture given by Professor Gareth Jones at the 2012 CiS Residential Conference
  Audio (mp3 7.5MB)
  
• Dying well in a technological age
  A lecture given by Professor John Wyatt at the 2012 CiS Residential Conference
  Audio (mp3 6.8MB)
• GM crops and food security
  A lecture given by Professor John Bryant at the 2012 CiS Residential Conference
  Audio (mp3 6.7MB)
• GM crops: evaluating safety
  A lecture given by Professor Joe Perry at the 2012 CiS Residential Conference
  Audio (mp3 7.4MB)
• ‘Complementary medicine: evidence ethics and personal choice’
  Dr James May speaking at the CiS Central South group, 6th July 2010
• Audio (mp3, 40MB)
• ‘Contraception and the start of life: a debate’
  A debate between Dr Peter May (retired GP and member of the general synod) and Dr Seyi Hotonu (SpR in Genito-Urinary medicine and author of “Contraception: a Pro-Life Guide”) at the CiS Central South local group, 17th Nov 2007
  Introduction & Dr Peter May (MP3, 16.7MB), Transcript of Dr Peter May’s talk (pdf, 37Kb), Dr Seyi Hotonu (MP3, 18.6MB), Questions from the floor (MP3, 6.8MB)
• ‘Moral Mazes in Bioethics: is there a Christian way through?‘
  A seminar led by Prof. John Bryant at the CiS Central South local group on 11th Jan 2007
  Audio of lecture (MP3, 8.9MB), Slides from the lecture (PDF, 548KB – some pictures have been removed)
• Can we develop a Christian toolkit for dealing with bioethical dilemmas?
  Prof John Bryant, speaking at the 2012 CiS student conference
  Audio of lecture (mp3 40.7 MB)

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

Links to more bioethics organisations around the world.