This book contains the proceedings of an international conference 'Fertility, Infertility and Gender' held in Maynooth, Ireland in 2010 by the Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics (now the Anscombe Bioethics Centre). Its thirteen chapters cover contributions which will be of interest to Christian doctors such as: Fertility, Celibacy and the...
When does human life begin? What or who is a human being? This concise booklet addresses these questions, which are fundamental to the biotechnology of human reproduction, including pre-natal and pre-implantation diagnosis, assisted reproduction, human embryo research and cloning. Five chapters examine 'The Beginning of Human Life' from different perspectives...
Thomas Sydenham was born at Wynford Eagle, Dorset in 1624. He was an outstanding pioneer of clinical medicine, an ideal General Practitioner and has been called 'The Father of English Medicine'. He came from a Puritan family and was himself a man of deep Christian faith in the Puritan tradition....