title: Good Without God: Bioethics and the Sacred.
abstract: Bioethics traffics in matters moral. As such, bioethics frequently bumps up against religion, offering an ideal arena to examine how the sacred and the secular encounter each other in modern medicine. In this essay I consider two places where bioethics and religion intersect: 1) the response of bioethics to the universal problem of suffering, and 2) the professional proselytizing or "missionizing work" that bioethics does in order to make a place for itself among the professions of the life sciences.
authors.affiliation: Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2800 USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: De Vries
keywords: Culture and Bioethics; Religion and Bioethics; Suffering