For many persons with chronic illness and disability, medical images can come to represent
their stigmatized “otherness.” A growing group of artists, however, are transforming their …

Arguments in favor of legalized assisted suicide often center on issues of personal privacy
and freedom of choice over one's body. Many disability advocates assert, however, that …

Despite a variety of “non-ecumenical” features in Christian arguments about suicide,
assisted suicide, and euthanasia, there are obvious “ecumenical” aspects to be found in the …

ORIGINS OF THE DEBATE n recent years, interest in the legalization of physician-assisted
suicide (PAS) has given rise to a polarized public debate regarding I its moral status and its …

Predominant among the terminological ambiguities that plague contemporary bioethics is
confusion attending the meaning of the term “human dignity,” particularly as it applies to so …

I argue that despite criticism from some disability rights organizations, aid in dying is morally
permissible. First, I suggest that disability-related concerns can be classified as emerging …

This paper presents my personal convictions, as an Evangelical, regarding the absolute
impropriety of doctor-assisted suicide for Christians. They have been “bought with a price” …

The title “Bodily Life as Creaturely Life” indicates that any reflection on human life forms, on
a human “ethos”, must deal with the transforming experiences that let appear how human …

Twenty leading experts in the bioethics debate here engage matters of dignity and dying
from a Christian perspective. The book begins with essays by David Schiedermayer, Arlene …

Rehabilitation medicine, like all of medicine, is intensely judgmental, and clinical judgments
are inevitably value laden. One of the great contributions of the relatively youthful discipline …