Introduction to Ethics - Medical Ethics - Theological Foundations

MEILAENDER, Gilbert, Bioethics: A Primer for Christians Third Edition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013, ch. 1. See also his longer, recent new book available on Perlego.

Or (quite a bit longer if you have time): WYATT, John, Matters of Life and Death: Today’s Healthcare Dilemmas in the Light of Christian Faith. Leicester: IVP, revised edition 2009, ch. 2.

Or even (available from Sean at a discount): DOHERTY, Sean, Foundations for Medical Ethics. Grove: 2007.

BANNER, Michael, Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Chapter 2.

GUSHEE, David P, The Sacredness of Human Life: Why an Ancient Biblical Vision is Key to the World’s Future. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. Chapters 1-4.

KAJANG, Daniel Rikichi, 'Health,' chapter 14 in Sunday Bobai Agang (ed.) African Public Theology. African Christian Textbooks and Langham Publishing, 2020.

LAMMERS, Stephen E, and Allen Verhey (eds.), On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics (Third Edition). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012, esp. ch. 2.

MESSER, Neil, Respecting Life: Theology and Bioethics. London: SCM, 2011, ch. 4. Messer’s Flourishing: Health, Disease and Bioethics in Theological Perspective is available on Perlego and DTL.

SINGER, Peter, ‘Taking Life: Humans’, in Practical Ethics. Third Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2011, ch. 4.

SOWLE CAHILL, Lisa, Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice, and Change (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005), esp. chapters 1-2.

VERHEY, Allen, Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2003.

WHEELER, Sondra, Stewards of Life: Bioethics and Pastoral Care. Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1996.