Stephen Goundrey-Smith

Christian Ethics and Biomedical Innovation (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Christian Ethics and Biomedical Innovation, Stephen Goundrey-Smith outlines a strategy for future adoption of human enhancement technologies which will ensure that such technologies are a common good, a strategy which is appropriate for a pluralistic society, yet consistent with Christian ethical principles. Drawing on the history of biomedical innovation to date in pharmaceutical medicine, he argues that technological capability alone is not enough, and that the responsible adoption of enhancement technologies will require active ethical deliberation and robust public policy discourse. Goundrey-Smith argues that biomedical technology, ethics, and public policy together form an essential triad for appropriate future enhancement technology adoption. This approach helps to ensure that biomedical technologies introduced will be common goods, and to reduce the risk of their instrumental use. The use of any technology is closely linked to its sociopolitical and cultural context and, drawing on Augustine's The City of God, Goundrey-Smith presents a theological vision for good biomedical technology innovation in human society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666953619
• Artikelnr.: 74939420

Autorenporträt

Stephen Goundrey-Smith is associate tutor in Christian ethics and doctrine at Cuddesdon Gloucester and Hereford, and a course facilitator with the Gateway Theology School.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Good Life
Chapter 1: Theological Foundations: Creation, Vocation and Co-Creation
Chapter 2: Health Technology: Modern and Post-Modern
Chapter 3: Public Bodies: The State and the Governance of Human Function
Chapter 4: Consensus or Control: Biomedical Technology and Public Policy
Chapter 5: Biomedical Technology, Ethics and Public Policy: Towards an
Essential Triad
Chapter 6: Fulfilling Life: A Tale of Two Cities