Questions of Life and Death: Christian Faith And Medical Intervention

Richard Harries

Jan 2011 · SPCK

About this ebook

This book, by a major author in this area, throws light on key Life and Death issues such as fertility research and treatment, and assisted suicide.

Richard Harries, as a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority from 2003-9, and chair of its Ethics and Law Advisory Committee, has been at the heart of thinking about issues include cloning, human-animal hybrids and preimplantation genetic diagnosis.

He shows that the Western Christian tradition is compatible with work in this area.

In the House of Lords he was involved in debates on euthanasia, and is critical of much current thinking on the subject.

About the author

Richard Harries was Bishop of Oxford from 1987-2006. On his retirement he was made a Life Peer. A member of the H.F.E.A. he was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2002-8, and is an Honorary Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences and the Institute of Biology.