Table of Contents:
  • A history of religion and bioethics / Albert R. Jonsen
  • Theology's role in public bioethics / Lisa Sowle Cahill
  • Who legitimately speaks for religion in public bioethics? / John H. Evans
  • Bioethics, religion, and linguistic capital / Tod Chambers
  • And power corrupts-- : religion and the disciplinary matrix of bioethics / M. Therese Lysaught
  • Religion, public reason, and embryonic stem cell research / Cynthia B. Cohen
  • "These and those are the words of the living god" : Talmudi sound and fury in shaping national policy / Elliot N. Dorf
  • Public discourse and reasonable pluralims : rethinking the requirements of neurtality / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr
  • Law and bioethics in Rodriquez v. Canada / David E. Guinn, Edward W. Keyserlingk, and Wendy Morton
  • The NBAC report on cloning : a case study in religion, public policy and bioethics / M. Cathleen Kaveny
  • Philosophy, theology, and the claims of justice / Karen Lebacqz
  • "No harm, no harrassment" : major principles of health care ethics in Islam / Abdulaziz Sachedina
  • Ethics of ambiguity : a Buddhist reflection on the Japanese organ transplant law / Ronald Y. Nakasone
  • "On one path or the other" : cloning, religion and the making of U.S. biopolicy / Nigel M. de S. Cameron
  • Apples and oranges : a critique of current trends in the study of religion, spirituality, and health / Gail Gaisin Glicksman and Allen Glicksman
  • The heart of the matter : religion and spirituality at the end of life / David E. Guinn
  • Bioethical entanglements of race, religion, and AIDS / Michele Goodwin
  • The delivery of controversial services : reproductive health and the ethical and religious directives / Maura A. Ryan
  • Catholic health care in the public square : tension on the frontier / Clarke E. Cochran.