Andrew Goddard has posted a review of Christian Bioethics on the Fulcrum website:
There can be little doubt – especially given the recent controversies over the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill – that Christians need to learn how to think and speak about bioethics. This book ably does what it claims – provide a guide for the perplexed – and should be turned to by any Christian seeking a way through this minefield. (...) Sutton clearly knows the field well having worked in it since the mid-1980s and she is skilled at explaining a wide range of complex scientific and ethical issues in a way non-experts can understand (although at times more detail may have helped eg in the brief discussion of ‘double effect’).
For those wanting to think through the full range of bioethical issues, the solidly evangelical Matters of Life and Death by John Wyatt remains a great resource but is now getting dated (1998) and is quite a lengthy book. A new edition in 2005 of Meilaender’s short Bioethics: A Primer for Christians was therefore a welcome development and alongside that must now be added this volume by Sutton which has the added advantage of not only a wider range of issues being covered (including such recent controversies as hybrid embryos) but also of engaging more directly with secular thought.
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