Biomedical challenges: should "human" be redefined?
The advance of biomedical science is raising fundamental questions about the definition of what it is to be human. Theologians and health care professionals must work together in a communal defense of the Church's profound teachings about the holiness and sacramentality of bodied existence and must relate this teaching to current reproductive technologies.
D001294:Attitude to Health; D001675:Bioethics; D002410:Catholicism; D005260:Female; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D010327:Pastoral Care; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012070:Religion and Science; D012071:Religion and Sex; D012945:Social Values