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T1  What is religion? #bioethx

T2 On which bioethics issues do you think religious and secular ethics most clash? Why? #bioethx

T3a  Are current frameworks of secular bioethics inclusive of explicitly religious people? religious thought? #bioethx
 
T3b  What do you believe the ideal connection between religious and secular bioethics looks like? #bioethx

T4 If patient considers her/himself to be 'religious' how does this affect (if at all) the care you can/will/should provide? #bioethx

 

 

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Judaism: Rabbi David Shabtai

1. Defining the Moment: Understanding Brain Death in Halakhah

2. Brain Death and Its Discontents (page 22)

3. End of Life Care in Extreme Situations: Marlise Munoze: When the Corpse is Carry a Fetus

4. End of Life Care in Extreme Situations:  The courage of affirming life: Ariel Sharon's Legacy

5. The myth of Jewish religious exemption from vaccination

6. The status of a fetus and perspectives on delivering a stillborn: What it means to be alive 

7. A Voice that Should be Heard: Whether Brain Death Should Qualify as Death is Not a Medical Question, But Depends on Philosophical, Moral, and Religious Values and Ethics.

 

South Asian Religions: Sean Hillman

1. Bilimoria, P. "The Jaina Ethic of Voluntary Death." Bioethics 6 (1992): 330-55.

2. Damian, Constantin-Iulian. “Abortion from the Perspective of Eastern Religions: Hinduism and Buddhism.” Romanian Journal of Bioethics Vol. 8 No. 1 (2010): 124-136.

3. Hillman, Sean. “Intersections Between South Asian Religions and Biomedicine: Reclaiming Power within Contested Sites.” Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto (unpublished, 2013): 1-17.

4. Keown, D. and J. Keown. “Killing, Karma and Caring: Euthanasia in Buddhism and Christianity.”

Journal of Medical Ethics V. 21 (5) (1995): 265-269

5. Tsomo, Karma Lekshe. “Compassion, Ethics, and Neuroscience: Neuroethics Through Buddhist

Eyes.” Science and Engineering Ethics Volume 18, Issue 3 (2012): 529-537.

 

Christianity: Charles Camosy

1. Peter Singer and Christian Ethics: Beyond Polarization (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

2. Too Expensive to Treat?—Finitude, Tragedy, and the Neonatal ICU (Eerdmans, 2010)

3. ‘Five Tips for Creating Civil Discourse in an Era of Polarization’ The Seattle Times (July 20th, 2012).

4. ‘Toward a Magenta Bioethics Discourse: Bart Stupak and Health Care Reform’ American Journal of Bioethics (December 2011).

5. ‘Just Allocation of Health Care Resources and the Neonatal ICU’ Pediatrics in Review (May 2011) 32.

6. Charles Camosy 'The Dish' Videos - Animals and Bioethics