In this text for students and lay readers, Hanford (emeritus, biomedical ethics, Ferris State U.) describes the relationship between religious faith and biomedical ethics. Topics include, for example, ethics in managed care, the Human Genome Project, and the theories of Kohlberg and Fowler. Hanford

Bioethics from a Faith Perspective: Ethics in Health Care for the Twenty-First Century offers a meaningful, rational, faith-oriented framework for deciding how to deal with important biomedical health care issues. Organ donation, managed care, the Human Genome Project, and medical technology that keeps people alive beyond their natural life span are some of the topics it illuminates through case analysis and resolution. Since almost all textbooks in bioethics omit the religious dimension of life this is an indispensable volume. While most people state their moral positions from the background...