promoting Christian values
We play a strategic role by providing thoughtful and clearly written resources for students and doctors, and by making authoritative submissions to government and other official bodies. We also equip Christian doctors and students to speak out personally: in the NHS, the BMA and Royal Colleges; through government; and nationally and internationally in Christian, secular and medical media.latest news
Dr Mark Pickering introduces a motion at the BMA's annual meeting questioning the "stated impartiality and independence" of a commission investigating whether to change the law on assisted suicide. The motion was passed on Thursday 30 June 2011. It notes that a "significant majority" of commission's members are in favour of assisted suicide.Watch Christian Institute video of the meeting
biomedical technologies
Animal experimentation; cloning; genetics; the creation of chimeras and hybrids; new technologies like nanotechnology, cybernetics, and transhumanism; medical research, including using human subjects and animals in research;
stem cell technology; organ transplantation.
clinical practice
An index of articles, events, books related to specific areas of medical care including:
addiction and drugs, AIDS, alternative medicine, care of the elderly, confidentiality, depression, psychiatry, holistic medicine and ethical issues facing GPs.
early life
Abortion, contraception, premature babies and neonatal medicine, prenatal testing, reproductive technology.
What are the clinical, ethical and social and spiritual implications? What ethical problems do they pose for Christians?
end of life
Advance directives, assisted suicide, death and dying, euthanasia, palliative care...topics which raise many issues for patients and doctors alike. Information on political influences on end of life issues:- the Joffe Bill, Mental Capacity Act and issues in the Scottish parliament.
faith in practice
Articles to equip Christian healthcare workers to be an appropriate witness in the workplace: Christian apologetics, evangelism, faith in practice, healing and miracles, medical training, engaging in discussion with people of different faiths, Racial and Religious Hatred Bill, the Christian life.
philosophical aspects
Autonomy, ethics, evolution, personhood, postmodernism, suffering, the status of the embryo…tackling questions with far reaching implications on issues where Christians often have differing views.
sex and relationships
Relationships, sexuality, homosexual orientation and practice, transsexuality…issues surrounding sexual behaviour and morals raise many questions for all Christians. For doctors there are additional issues relating to how they advise and treat their patients.