Bioethics in 2017: This inventory overviews five areas to watch in the months to come: 1) assisted suicide; 2) futile care and hospital ethics committees; 3) the brave new world of genetic engineering; 4) health workers providing services against conscience; and 5) animal research.
The martyrs of Debre Libanos: In 1937, soldiers and militias slaughtered some 300 Ethiopian monks at one of that country’s holiest religious houses. In this instance, the perpetrators were neither communists nor Islamists but Catholic Italians, serving the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. Christians have always remembered their martyrs, but they do so selectively.
Is Addiction a Disease? Yes, and Much More: Four core aspects of recovery are essential for addressing addiction, says this article, arguing that we need to recognize at least four dimensions: moral, social, biological, and spiritual. Students can use this piece to explore a multiple-model approach to complex human behavior.
Love of Literature Feeds Karen Swallow Prior’s Faith: “There is a literary way of approaching not just literature, but culture and the church,” says this English professor at Liberty University, author, pro-life activist, and research fellow with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention—all roles that require her to share her faith […]
The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physician’s Search for the Renewal of Medicine by Abraham Nussbaum (Yale University Press, 2016) — “Most books on medicine either completely ignore Christianity (and assume medicine started in the 20th century) or see it as a tactic for converting patients. But here, faith is a surprising source of hope. […]
