Includes biographical references and index

Contents:

Contributors --Introduction : Laying some of the groundwork --pt. 1. Historical perspectives --1. A history of religion and bioethics / Albert R. Jonsen --2. Theology's role in public bioethics / Lisa Sowle Cahill --pt. 2. Religion and the terrain of public discourse --3. Who legitimately speaks for religion in public bioethics? / John H. Evans --4. Bioethics, religion, and linguistic capital / Tod Chambers --5. And power corrupts--: religion and the disciplinary matrix of bioethics / M. Therese Lysaught --pt. 3. Religion and bioethics in the public square --6. Religion, public reason, and embryonic stem cell research / Cynthia B. Cohen --7. "These and those are the words of the living god" : Talmudic sound and fury in shaping national policy / Elliot N. Dorff --8. Public discourse and reasonable pluralism : rethinking the requirements of neutrality / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. --pt. 4. Religion and official discourse --9. Law and bioethics in Rodriquez v. Canada / David E. Guinn, Edward W. Keyserlingk, and Wendy Morton --10. The NBAC report on cloning : a case study in religion, public policy and bioethics / M. Cathleen Kaveny. pt. 5. Religion and ethical praxis --11. Philosophy, theology, and the claims of justice / Karen Lebacqz --12. "No harm, no harassment" : major principles of health care ethics in Islam / Abdulaziz Sachedina --13. Ethics of ambiguity : a Buddhist reflection on the Japanese organ transplant law / Ronald Y. Nakasone --14. "On one path or the other" : cloning, religion and the making of U.S. biopolicy / Nigel M. de S. Cameron --pt. 6. Instrumentalizing religion --15. Apples and oranges : a critique of current trends in the study of religion, spirituality, and health / Gail Gaisin Glicksman and Allen Glicksman --16. The heart of the matter : religion and spirituality at the end of life / David E. Guinn --pt. 7. Bioethical entanglements of race, religion, and AIDS / Michele Goodwin --18. The delivery of controversial services : reproductive health and ethical and religious directives / Maura