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Christian Ethics and Biomedical Innovation

Christian Ethics and Biomedical Innovation
Author: Stephen Goundrey-Smith
Price: $117.00
ISBN-10: 166695361X
ISBN-13: 9781666953619
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In <i>Christian Ethics and Biomedical Innovation</i>, 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&rsquo;s <i>The City of God</i>, Goundrey-Smith presents a theological vision for good biomedical technology innovation in human society.