John F. Kilner (PhD, Harvard) is the Franklin Forman Chair of Ethics,
Professor of Bioethics and Contemporary Culture, and the Director of
the Bioethics Program at Trinity International University in Deerfield,
Illinois. - Why the Church Needs Bioethics
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Trinity Graduate School - Bioethics Recommended Reading List
Bioethics• Cameron, Nigel M. de S. The New Medicine: Life and Death after Hippocrates. Bioethics Press, 2001.
• DeGrazia, David, Thomas A. Mappes and Jeffrey Brand-Ballard. Biomedical Ethics, 7thed. McGraw-Hill,
2011.
• Rothman, David. Strangers at the Bedside. Aldine de Gruyter, 2003.
Christian Bioethics
• Engelhardt, H. Tristram. The Foundations of Christian Bioethics. Taylor & Francis, 2000.
• Lysaught, M. Therese, and Joseph Kotva, Jr., eds. On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives on Medical Ethics 3rd ed. Eerdmans, 2012.
• Ramsey, Paul, Margaret Farley, Albert Jonsen, and Marcia Wood. Patient as Person: Exploration in Medical Ethics 2nd ed. Yale Univ Press, 2002.
Christian Bioethics Surveys
• Feinberg, John S., and Paul D. Feinberg. Ethics for a Brave New World, 2nd ed. Crossway, 2010.
• Meilaender, Gilbert. Bioethics: A Primer for Christians, 2nd ed. Eerdmans, 2005.
• Rae, Scott B. and Paul M. Cox. Bioethics: A Christian Approach in a Pluralistic Age. Eerdmans, 1999.
• Thobaben, James. Heath-Care Ethics: A Comprehensive Christian Resource. IVP Academic, 2009.
Ethical Foundations
• Donagan, Alan. The Theory of Morality. Univ of Chicago Press, 1979.
• Holmes, Arthur. Ethics: Approaching Moral Decisions, 2nd ed. IVP Academic, 2007.
• Pojman, Louis. Moral Philosophy: A Reader 4th ed. Hackett, 2009.
Global Bioethics
• Engelhardt, H. Tristram, ed. Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus. Scrivener Press, 2006.
• Green, Ronald, Aine Donovan, and Steven Jauss, eds. Global Bioethics: Issues of Conscience for the Twenty-First Century. Oxford Univ Press, 2009.
• Tan-Alora, Angeles, and Josephine M. Lumitao, eds. Beyond a Western Bioethics: Voices from the Developing World. Georgetown Univ Press, 2001.
History
• Ferngren, Gary. Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity. Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2009.
• Jonsen, Albert. A Short History of Medical Ethics. Oxford Univ Press, 2008.
• Stevens, Tina. Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics. Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2003.
Public Methodologies
• Beauchamp, Tom, and James Childress. Principles of Biomedical Ethics 8th ed. Oxford Univ Press, 2008.
• Singer, Peter. Practical Ethics, 3rd ed. Cambridge Univ Press, 2011.
• Sugarman, Jeremy, and Daniel Sulmasy, eds. Methods in Medical Ethics 2nd ed. Georgetown Univ Press, 2010.
Human Dignity
• Kass, Leon. Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics. Encounter, 2002.
• Meilaender, Gilbert. Neither Beast nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person. Encounter, 2009.
• President’s Council on Bioethics. Human Dignity and Bioethics. http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/pcbe/reports/human_dignity/index.html, 2008.
• Dilley, Stephen, and Nathan Palpant, eds. Human Dignity in Bioethics. Routledge, 2012.
The Unborn
• Beckwith, Francis. Defending Life. Cambridge Univ Press, 2007.
• George, Robert P., and Christopher Tollefsen. Embryo: A Defense of Human Life. Doubleday, 2008.
• Jones, David A. Soul of the Embryo: Christianity and the Human Embryo. Continuum, 2004.
• Kaczor, Christopher. The Ethics of Abortion. Routledge, 2010.
Disability
• Hauerwas, Stanley. Suffering Presence: Theological Reflections on Medicine, the Mentally Handicapped and the Church. Univ of Notre Dame Press, 1986.
• Reynolds, Thomas. Vulnerable Communion: A Theology of Disability and Hospitality. Brazos, 2008.
• Swinton, John, and Brian Brock. Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church. T & T Clark, 2007.
Aging
• Mitchell, C. Ben, Robert Orr, and Susan Salladay, eds. Aging, Death, and the Quest for Immortality. Eerdmans, 2004.
• Moody, Harry. Aging: Concepts and Controversies, 6th ed. Sage, 2009.
• Sapp, Stephen. Full of Years: Aging and the Elderly in the Bible and Today. Abingdon, 1987.
Law, Public Policy, & Conscience
• Audi, Robert, and Nicholas Wolterstorff. Religion in the Public Square: The Place of Religious Convictions in Political Debate. Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.
• Colson, Charles, and Nigel Cameron. Human Dignity in the Biotech Century: A Christian Vision for Public Policy. IVP, 2004.
• Forsythe, Clarke. Politics for the Greatest Good: The Case for Prudence in the Public Square. InterVarsity, 2009.
• Vischer, Robert. Conscience and the Common Good: Reclaiming the Space Between the Person and the State. Cambridge Univ Press, 2009.
The Church
• Chia, Roland. Biomedical Ethics and the Church. Armour, 2010.
• Kilner, John F., ed. Why the Church Needs Bioethics: A Guide to Wise Engagement with Life’s Challenges. Zondervan, 2011.
• Wheeler, Sondra. Stewards of Life: Bioethics and Pastoral Care. Abingdon, 1996.
Research
• Emanuel, Ezekiel, et al., eds. The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics. Oxford Univ Press, 2011.
• Goodman, Jordan, et al., eds. Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century. The Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2008.
• Iltis, Ana Smith, ed. Research Ethics. Routledge, 2008.
Clinical Ethics
• Jonsen, Albert, Mark Siegler, and William Winslade. Clinical Ethics 7th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2010.
• Junkerman, Charles, and David Schiedermayer. Practical Ethics for Students, Interns, and Residents 3rd ed. Univ Publishing Group, 2008.
• Lo, Bernard. Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians, 4th ed. Lippincott, 2009.
• Orr, Robert. Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor. Eerdmans, 2009.
Medical Caregiving
• May, William F. The Physician’s Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics, 2nd ed. Presbyterian Publishing, 2000.
• Pellegrino, Edmund, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Fabrice Jotterand, eds. The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader. Univ of Notre Dame Press, 2008.
• Shelly, Judith Allen, and Arlene B. Miller. Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing, 2nd ed. IVP Academic, 2006.
Resource Allocation & Public Health
• Callahan, Daniel. Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System. Princeton Univ Press, 2009.
• Coughlin, Steven, Tom Beauchamp, and Douglas Wee, eds. Ethics and Epidemiology. Oxford Univ Press, 2009.
• Kilner, John. Life on the Line: Ethics, Aging, Ending Patients’ Lives, and Allocating Vital Resources. Eerdmans, 1992.
Biotechnology
• Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.
• Mitchell, C. Ben, Edmund Pellegrino, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John Kilner, and Scott Rae. Biotechnology and the Human Good. Georgetown Univ Press, 2007.
• Waters, Brent. This Mortal Flesh: Incarnation and Bioethics. Brazos, 2009.
Reproductive Technology
• O’Donovan, Oliver. Begotten or Made? Human Procreation and Medical Technique. Oxford Univ Press, 1984.
• Rae, Scott B., and D. Joy Riley. Outside the Womb: Moral Guidance for Assisted Reproduction. Moody, 2011.
• Waters, Brent. Reproductive Technology. Pilgrim, 2001.
Cloning & Stem Cell Research
• President’s Council on Bioethics. Human Cloning and Human Dignity. http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/pcbe/reports/cloningreport/index.html, 2002.
• President’s Council on Bioethics, Monitoring Stem Cell Research. http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/pcbe/reports/stemcell/index.html, 2004.
• Waters, Brent and Ronal Cole-Turner, eds. God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning. Georgetown Univ Press, 2003.
Genetics
• Black, Edwin. War against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race. Dialog Press, 2008.
• Ramsey, Paul. Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control. Yale Univ Press, 1970.
• Sandel, Michael. The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. Belknap Press, 2007.
Neuroethics
• Beauregard, Mario and Denyse O’Leary. The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. Harper, 2008.
• Illes, Judy, ed. Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice, and Policy. Oxford Univ Press, 2006.
• Small, Gary, and Gigi Vorgan. iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind. Harper, 2008.
• Struthers, William. Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain. InterVarsity, 2009.
Human Enhancement
• Elliott, Carl. Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream. Norton, 2003.
• President’s Council on Bioethics. Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness. http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/pcbe/reports/beyondtherapy/index.html, 2003.
• Savulescu, Julian, Ruud ter Meulen, and Guy Kahane, eds. Enhancing Human Capacities. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Emerging Technologies
• Budinger, Thomas F., and Miriam D. Budinger. Ethics of Emerging Technologies: Scientific Facts and Moral Challenges. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
• Kilner, John, Christopher Hook, and Diane Uustal (eds.). “Emerging Technologies” (5 essays), in Cutting-Edge Bioethics: A Christian Exploration of Technologies and Trends.
Eerdmans, 2002.
• O’Mathuna, Donal. Nanoethics: Big Ethical Issues with Small Technology. Continuum, 2009.
• Waters, Brent. From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology and Technology in a Postmodern World. Ashgate, 2006.
Suffering
• Carson, D. A. How Long, O Lord? Reflections on Suffering and Evil, 2nd ed. Baker Academic, 2006.
• Feinberg, John S. Where Is God?, 2nd ed. B & H, 2004.
• Lewis, C. S. A Grief Observed. HarperOne, 2001.
Dying
• Byock, Ira. Dying Well. Riverhead Books, 1997.
• Dunlop, John. Finishing Well to the Glory of God. Crossway, 2011.
• Moll, Rob. The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come. IVP, 2010.
End-of-Life Decisions
• Dyck, Arthur. Life’s Worth: The Case against Assisted Suicide. Eerdmans, 2002.
• Keown, John. Euthanasia, Ethics, and Public Policy. Cambridge Univ Press, 2002.
• Kilner, John, Arlene Miller, and Edmund Pellegrino, eds. Dignity and Dying: A Christian Appraisal.
Eerdmans, 1996.
• Lynn, Joanne, Janice Lynch Schuster, and Joan Harrold. Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness, 2nd ed. Oxford Univ Press, 2011.