Ethics & Issues

Ethics and Issues at a glance...

'Should Doctors Assist Dying?' Internet TV programme, Government Submissions, Ethics for Schools, Press Releases, Media Training, Abortion, Addiction, Advanced Directives, AIDS, Alternative Medicine, Animal Experimentation, Assisted Suicide, Autonomy, Care of the Elderly, Cloning, Confidentiality, Contraception, Current Abortion Review, Death and Dying, Depression, Drugs, Ethics, Euthanasia, Genetics, GP Issues, Healing and Miracles, HFE Bill, Holistic Medicine, Homosexuality, Joffe Bill, Medical Training, Mental Capacity Act, Money and Debt, New Technologies, Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice, Personhood, Postmodernism, Pre-natal Testing, Premature Babies, Psychiatry, Racial and Religious Hatred Bill, Relationships, Research, Scottish Euthanasia, Sexuality, Stem Cells, Suffering, The Christian Life, The Status of the Embryo, Transplantation, Transsexuality, Reproductive Technology

One of CMFs aims is to promote Christian values, especially in bioethics and healthcare, among doctors and medical students, in the church and in society. We hope the following pages will encourage and challenge you to get involved in debate about the difficult issues faced today.

Turning the Tide

Turning the tide is a CMF ethics training course. The complete course contents are available here.

Knowing the Times

Why is ethical decision making more difficult?

Thinking World-Viewishly

Making Ethical Decisions the World's Way

Making Ethical Decisions God's Way

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Euthanasia Booklet

Published in 1994, this booklet on euthanasia pulls together six articles from the CMF Journal (which isn't available on the site) covering; the Christian case against compassionate killing, suicide, advance directives, the Dr Cox case, the Tony Bland case, and the official CMF statement.

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Thou Shalt Not Kill - The Christian case against compassionate killing

Chapter 3 - Suicide Down the Ages - A Judeo-Christian Perspective

Chapter 4 - Should Doctors Support the Living Will?

Chapter 5 - A Doctor's Dilemma

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Government Submissions

CMF on confidentiality

CMF on organ donation

STC on the 1967 Abortion Act

Organ donation

Beliefs in Practice - GMC