Michael Banner is Dean and Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He has had wide involvement in ethical thinking and policy making in government and the private sector, as chair or member of committees across Whitehall Departments from Health to Defence. His publications include Christian Ethics: A Brief History (Wiley Blackwell, 2009) and Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (CUP, 1999).
* Preface and acknowledgments
* Introduction
* 1: Moral Theology, Moral Philosophy, Social Anthropology, and the
State We Are In: On (the Lack of) Everyday Ethics
* 2: Conceiving Conception: On IVF, Virgin Births, and the Troubling of
Kinship
* 3: Being Born and Being Born Again: On Having or Not Having a Child
of One's Own
* 4: Regarding Suffering: On the Discovery of the Pain of Christ, the
Politics of Compassion, and the Contemporary Mediation of the Woes of
the World
* 5: Dying and 'Death before Death': On Hospices, Euthanasia,
Alzheimer's, and on (not) Knowing How to Dwindle
* 6: Contesting Burial and Mourning: On Relics, Alder Hey, and Keeping
the Dead Close
* 7: Remembering Christ and Making Time Count: On the Practice and
Politics of Memory
* 8: In Conclusion: Some Final (but not Last) Word
* Bibliography
* Index
