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In My Sister’s Keeper, Kate Fitzgerald (Sofia Vassilieva) is diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia when she is two years old, and the prognosis is not positive. Her parents, Sara (Cameron Diaz) and Brian (Jason Patric), and her brother Jesse (Evan Ellingson) are not genetic matches. Sara, at least, will do anything to save Kate, and Dr Wayne (Jeffrey Markle) suggests, off the record, that producing another child in a test-tube would provide a perfectly matched donor. Anna (Abigail Breslin) is the result. The initial expectation is that only the blood from the umbilical cord will be used, but by the time Anna is 11, she’s undergone a number of medical procedures, including bone marrow transplants, and the latest call is for a kidney.
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Playing God: Talking about Ethics in Medicine and Technology
Posted on: 23-02-2009
As advances in technology push back the boundaries of the possible, are we losing sight of the question of whether it is right to do everything that science makes possible? From (premature) birth to (endlessly delayed) death, more and more decisions have to be made. How can Christians find a way through the moral minefield that new technology presents, and how can we talk about these things in a way that helps, rather than browbeats, our friends? Playing God: Talking About Ethics in Medicine and Technology begins to help readers think about these questions by engaging with recent films, books and television programmes.
Contents
Introduction to the Talking About series by Tony Watkins
Introduction by Nick Pollard
- Rethinking Life and Death – click here to read this sample chapter
by Nick Pollard - I Give You Dominion: A Biblical Perspective on Ethics in Medicine and Technology
by Dr Trevor Stammers - Killing Me Softly – Vera Drake and Million Dollar Baby
by Tony Watkins - Paddling in the Gene Pool – Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
by Caroline Puntis - Built Free – I, Robot
by Peter S. Williams - Docs on the Box – TV medical dramas
by Dr Rebecca Lewis - My Sister’s Keeper (Jodi Picoult) – Study Guide
by Louise Crook - The Island – Study Guide
by Tony Watkins - Life after God? The Ethical Teaching of Peter Singer
by Dr Peter May
Background to the quotes
For further reading
Taken from the Damaris website
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