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Biomedical challenges: should "human" be redefined?

R Brungs
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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.

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Attitude to HealthBioethicsCatholicismFemaleHuman RightsHumansMaleMedical Laboratory SciencePastoral CareReligion and MedicineReligion and ScienceReligion and SexSocial ValuesJournal Article

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R Brungs. 1979. Biomedical challenges: should "human" be redefined?. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/437742/

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