Risk, Health, and Physical Enhancement: The Dangers of Health Care as Risk Reduction for Christian Bioethics
Medicine increasingly envisions health promotion in terms of reducing risk as determined by quantitative risk factors, such as blood pressure, blood lipids, or genetic variants. This essay argues that this vision of health care as risk reduction is dangerous for Christian bioethics, since risk can b...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2020]
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 145-162 |
IxTheo Classification: | CA Christianity NCH Medical ethics NCJ Ethics of science |
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