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, Ethical Theory

Required Reading:

Feinburgh and Feinburgh: Moral decision-Making and the Christian (note that only pp. 17-32 are required) [ERes]

Sullivan: Op-Ed: Partial-Birth Abortion: Op-Ed Article [PDF]

Medical Ethics: Four Principles (Gillon)

Personhood

Required Reading:

Sullivan 1: 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:

Beckwith: Abortion, Bioethics, and Personhood: [link]
Palazzani: Personalism and Bioethics [ERes]
Rae: Views of Human Nature at the Edges of Life [ERes]
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice: Personhood, the Bible, and the Abortion Debate [link]
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

Required Reading:

Sullivan 2: A Thirty-Year Perspective on Personhood [PDF]
Gordon: Answering the Violinist Argument [link]
Abortion Case Study: (link)

Optional Resources:

Bouchier-Hayes: Philosophers on Abortion and Infanticide [link]
Cranston: The Christian Response to Abortion: An Introduction [link]
Sullivan: Partial-Birth Abortion: Op-Ed Article [PDF]

Human Sexuality, Birth Control, STDs

Required Reading:

Stanton: Where It All Starts (link)
Budziszewski: What's Good About Sex (link)
Sullivan 3: The Ethics of Homosexuality (link)
Sullivan 4: The Oral Contraceptive as Abortifacient: An Analysis of the Evidence [link]

Optional Resources:

Biblical Studies Foundation: Homosexuality: The Christian Perspective [link]
Messiah College: Christian Resources about Homosexuality and AIDS [link]

Epigee: Birth Control Guide [ link]
Christian Life Resources: Birth Control [link]
Catholic Answers: Birth Control [link]

NIH: Sexually Transmitted Diseases [link]
CDC: STD Prevention [link]

Reproductive Technologies

Required Reading:

Francis: The Christian and Assisted Procreation [PDF]

Optional:

Caplan: The Ethics of In Vitro Fertilization [ERes]

Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning

Required Reading:

Sullivan 5: Stem Cells 101 [link]
O'Mathuna: Cloning and Stem Cell Research [link]

Optional Resources:

Kilner: Human Cloning [link]
Clancy: To Clone or Not to Clone? [link]

Bioethics at the End of Life

Required Reading:

Sullivan 6: Euthanasia v. Letting Die [link]
Kuskin:Organ Transplantation: Thorny Ethical Issues [link]

Optional Resources:

McCurdy: Getting - and Staying - Clear About Brain Death [link]
Rakestraw: The Persistent Vegetative State and the Withdrawal of Nutrition and Hydration [ERes]
Kuhse & Singer: Bob Dent's Decision [Ohiolink]
Symposium: The Sanctity of Life Seduced (note especially Callahan and Meilaender) [link]

Hippocratic Medicine

Required Reading:

Hippocratic Oath [link]

Cameron: The Hippocratic Legacy, Chapter 1 [On reserve at front desk of library]

Optional Resources:

Pre-Socratic Influences on Hippocratic Medicne [link]

Eugenics, Human Subjects Research

Required Reading:

Garland: Social Origins of Eugenics [link]
Eugenics Archive: Buck v. Bell Case [link]

Optional Resources:

Nuremberg Code [link]
Helsinki Declaration [link]
Belmont Report [link]
NIH: Human Subjects Research [link]

Environmental Ethics

Required Reading:

Silvius: Bald Eagles and Babies: The Case for Compassionate Conservationism [link]

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