title: Biomedical challenges: should "human" be redefined?
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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