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Raises and considers common issues, cutting through the moral fog in medical science Christianity and Modern Medicine raises moral questions that were merely hypothetical just decades ago. Moreover, traditional moral models are incessantly challenged by the medical community at large, shifting the conversation to patient and societal rights within a framework of moral relativism and rendering the decision-making process morally vague and confusing. In Christianity and Modern Medicine, bioethicist Mark Wesley Foreman and attorney Lindsay C. Leonard delve into the major ethical issues facing today's medical professionals with the purpose of providing principles and guidelines for making critical ethical decisions where medical knowledge, technologies, and capabilities are constantly evolving. Topics covered include: - procreational ethics - genetic ethics - abortion - medical research - infanticide - clinical ethics - physician-assisted suicide - legal issues While Christianity and Modern Medicine is designed specifically for students planning careers in the medical field, it is accessible to any Christian interested in steering through the moral fog in the practice of medicine today.

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"""This significant work on bioethics gives us a readable, well-informed, and carefully-argued approach to a subject fraud with illogic, misunderstanding, and out of control passions. The authors' knowledge of the pertinent facts, logic, and history serve the reader well in developing an intellectually satisfying and biblically-informed view on crucial moral issues facing us.""--Douglas Groothuis ""Professor of Philosophy, Denver Seminary"" (1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM) ""Christianity and Modern Medicine is an excellent textbook: well written, clearly argued, philosophically informed, and theologically conservative, it is an excellent choice for introducing students to this highly specialized field.""--Michael S. Jones, PhD ""Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Liberty University, President, Virginia Philosophical Association"" (1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM) ""Christianity and Modern Medicine is representative of an emerging body of articulate, careful, and courageous Christian treatment of ethical issues. Foreman and Leonard employ an interesting blend of ethical theories to offer a defense of a distinctly Evangelical approach to critical bioethical issues.""--J. P. Moreland, PhD ""Professor of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University"" (1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM) ""Mark Foreman and Lindsay Leonard have provided the general reader with a totally accessible--as well as academically rigorous and theologically astute--presentation and defense of a Christian perspective on bioethics. This book should become the standard bioethics textbook in Christian undergraduate education, graduate colleges, and professional schools including medicine, business, theology, and law.""--Francis J. Beckwith, PhD ""Professory of Philosophy and Church-State Studies, Baylor University"" (1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM)"

Christianity and Modern Medicine is an excellent textbook: well written, clearly argued, philosophically informed, and theologically conservative, it is an excellent choice for introducing students to this highly specialized field. --Michael S. Jones, PhD Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Liberty University, President, Virginia Philosophical Association (1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM) Christianity and Modern Medicine is representative of an emerging body of articulate, careful, and courageous Christian treatment of ethical issues. Foreman and Leonard employ an interesting blend of ethical theories to offer a defense of a distinctly Evangelical approach to critical bioethical issues. --J. P. Moreland, PhD Professor of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University (1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM) Mark Foreman and Lindsay Leonard have provided the general reader with a totally accessible--as well as academically rigorous and theologically astute--presentation and defense of a Christian perspective on bioethics. This book should become the standard bioethics textbook in Christian undergraduate education, graduate colleges, and professional schools including medicine, business, theology, and law. --Francis J. Beckwith, PhD Professory of Philosophy and Church-State Studies, Baylor University (1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM) This significant work on bioethics gives us a readable, well-informed, and carefully-argued approach to a subject fraud with illogic, misunderstanding, and out of control passions. The authors' knowledge of the pertinent facts, logic, and history serve the reader well in developing an intellectually satisfying and biblically-informed view on crucial moral issues facing us.--Douglas Groothuis Professor of Philosophy, Denver Seminary (1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM)

This significant work on bioethics gives us a readable, well-informed, and carefully-argued approach to a subject fraud with illogic, misunderstanding, and out of control passions. The authors' knowledge of the pertinent facts, logic, and history serve the reader well in developing an intellectually satisfying and biblically-informed view on crucial moral issues facing us. --Douglas Groothuis Professor of Philosophy, Denver Seminary (1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM) Christianity and Modern Medicine is an excellent textbook: well written, clearly argued, philosophically informed, and theologically conservative, it is an excellent choice for introducing students to this highly specialized field. --Michael S. Jones, PhD Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Liberty University, President, Virginia Philosophical Association (1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM) Christianity and Modern Medicine is representative of an emerging body of articulate, careful, and courageous Christian treatment of ethical issues. Foreman and Leonard employ an interesting blend of ethical theories to offer a defense of a distinctly Evangelical approach to critical bioethical issues. --J. P. Moreland, PhD Professor of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University (1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM) Mark Foreman and Lindsay Leonard have provided the general reader with a totally accessible--as well as academically rigorous and theologically astute--presentation and defense of a Christian perspective on bioethics. This book should become the standard bioethics textbook in Christian undergraduate education, graduate colleges, and professional schools including medicine, business, theology, and law. --Francis J. Beckwith, PhD Professory of Philosophy and Church-State Studies, Baylor University (1/17/2022 12:00:00 AM)

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Lindsay C. Leonard serves as assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Virginia and is adjunct instructor for the online bioethics course for Liberty University. Mark Wesley Foreman (PhD, University of Virginia) has been teaching bioethics at Liberty University for almost thirty years. During his doctoral work, he studied under James F. Childress who is recognized as one of the fathers of the modern bioethics movement in this country.

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