Bonhoeffer and the biosciences
Subtitle: an initial exploration
By: Ralf K. Wüstenberg, Stefan Heuser, Esther Hornung (eds.).
Contributors: Wüstenberg, Ralf K., 1965-; Heuser, Stefan, 1971-; Hornung, Esther, 1968-
Series: International Bonhoeffer interpretations -- 3
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9783631598450
Subjects: Congresses; Bioethics
Description: "The hermeneutics of human life is one of the most challenging issues in the fields of bioscience and of ethics today. Recent breakthroughs in bio science challenge the prevalent metaphors and paradigms which define human life in the human and natural sciences, that influence our understanding of diseases, illness, therapy, aging, dying, and, consequently, also shape medical practice. In the essays collected in this book, scientists, ethicists, philosophers and theologians bring Bonhoeffer's ethics and his theological anthropology into dialogue with bioscience and explore current bioethical and anthropological issues. All articles were first presented as lectures at the Third International Bonhoeffer Colloquium at Freie Universitat Berlin, 2009. Bonhoeffer's Ethics, as presented in this book, helps to articulate a semantics of human life which stimulates a debate between science and ethics, and which assists in finding fresh ways for understanding human life and the related tasks of scientific research and medical practice."--Publisher's description.
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bonhoeffer and bioscience : dialogues on the hermeneutics of human life / Stefan Heuser; title: Human embryos at the IVF-stem cell interface : towards a hermeneutic approach to bioethics / Christoph Rehmann-Sutter; title: Interpreting human life by looking the other way : Bonhoeffer on human beings and other animals / David Clough; title: Bonhoeffer and the biotechnological imagination / Robert Song; title: Loving the limit : Dietrich Bonhoeffer's hermeneutics of human creatureliness and its challenge for an ethics of medical care / Bernd Wannenwetsch; title: Respecting rights and fulfilling duties : Bonhoeffer's formed life in bioethical perspective / Michael P. Dejonge; title: Biomedicine and our understanding of disability / Sigrid Graumann; title: Biotechnology and public theology : a dialogue with Dietrich Bonhoeffer / Heinrich Bedford-Strohm; title: Understanding the conditio humana : new hermeneutical, theoretical and practical perspectives in the field of genome-research / Hans G. Ulrich; title: Bonhoeffer's work; title: challenging the ethical approach in the field of bioethics for a critical hermeneutics of life : shared insights from a multiple dialogue / Hans G. Ulrich.