Reading Resources

PLEASE NOTE: The opinions expressed in these resources are not necessarily those of Cedarville University or its faculty.

Readings organized by topic: Please report broken links to Dr. Sullivan

Introduction, Philosophical Backgrounds

Required Reading:

Hinman: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory: [link]

Feinberg and Feinberg: Moral Decision-making and the Christian: [ERes]

Optional Resource:

Sullivan 1: Reviving the Saracen's Head: [PDF]

Personhood

Required Reading:

Sullivan 2: The Conception View of Personhood: A Review [PDF]

Kuhse & Singer: What's Wrong with the Sanctity of Life Doctrine? [ERes]

Condic: Life: Defining the Beginning by the End [link]

Optional Resources:

Palazzani: Personalism and Bioethics [ERes]
Rae: Views of Human Nature at the Edges of Life [ERes]
Saucy: Theology of Human Nature: [ERes]
Ware: Male Priority in Man and Woman as the Image of God [PDF]
Young: The Zygote, the Embryo, and Personhood: An Attempt at Conceptual Clarification [ERes]

Abortion and Infanticide

Required Reading:

Tortora & Grabowski: Prinicples of Anatomy and Physiology (course textbook, pages as indicated)

Sullivan 3: A Thirty-Year Perspective on Personhood [PDF]

Cranston: The Christian Response to Abortion: An Introduction [link]

Kreeft: The Unaborted Socrates (required text)

Judith Jarvis Thomson, A Defense of Abortion [link]

Beckwith: Unplugging the Violinist (Part III only) [link]

Case Study (Sullivan): [link]


Optional Resources:

Bouchier-Hayes: Philosophers on Abortion and Infanticide [link]
Sullivan: Partial-Birth Abortion: Op-Ed Article [PDF]
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice: Barriers to Abortion are Barriers to Justice for Women: [link]

Family Planning, Assisted Procreation

Required Reading:

Sullivan 4: The Oral Contraceptive as Abortifacient: An Analysis of the Evidence [link]

Sullivan: PowerPoint presentation on Oral Contraceptives (based on above article) [link]

Francis: The Christian and Assisted Procreation [PDF]

Caplan: The Ethics of In Vitro Fertilization [ERes]

Grabill: The Embryo Surplus: A Pro-Life Catch-22 [link]

Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning

Required Reading:

Sullivan 5: Stem Cells and Moral Analogies [PDF]

Kilner: Human Cloning [link]

Kilner and George: Human Cloning: What's at Stake [link]

Optional Resource:

Clancy: To Clone or Not to Clone? [link]

End of Life

Required Reading:

Symposium: The Sanctity of Life Seduced (note especially Callahan and Meilander) [link]

Sullivan 6: Euthanasia v. Letting Die [link]

Orr & Meilander: Ethics and Life's Ending [link]

Optional Resources:

Rakestraw: The Persistent Vegetative State and the Withdrawal of Nutrition and Hydration [ERes]

Kuhse & Singer: Bob Dent's Decision [Ohiolink]

Hippocratic Medicine

Required Reading:

Hippocratic Oath [link]

Nuremberg Code [link]

Cameron: The Hippocratic Legacy, Ch. 1 & 2 [On Reserve at Centennial Library Front Desk]

Eugenics

Required Reading:

Naomi Schaefer: The Legacy of Nazi Medicine [link]

Belmont Report [link]

Human Experimentation

Required Reading:

Helsinki Declaration: [link]

The New Genetics

Required Reading:

HGP 1: The New Genetics [link]

HGP 2: Genetic Testing [link]

HGP 3: Genetic Therapy [link]

Sullivan 7: Human Genetic Transformation: What Are the Biblical Limits? [link]

Optional Resource:

Anderson: Human Gene Therapy: Why Draw a Line? [ERes]

Technology and the Future

Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us [link]
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