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
