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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Main Author: Scherz, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2020]
In: 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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