 Can Religion Contribute to the Bioethics Debate? It is argued that religion should stay out of the field of medicine, an area where it has no professional expertise. Using the perspective of comparative religions, Professor Crawford’s lecture will challenge this popular notion of the limited jurisdiction of religion in the current bioethics debates dealing with beginning of life and end of life issues. Professor Crawford was born and grew up in India of British parentage. He is professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the author of such books on Hindu ethics as “Dilemmas of Life and Death: Hindu Ethics in a North American Context” and “Hindu Bioethics for the 21st Century.” Professor Crawford is also an ordained minister of the Methodist Church and a Jain activist for peace and non-killing. His works provide a new moral and philosophical perspective on bioethical issues in the news: cloning, genetic engineering, the human genome project, reproductive technologies, the end of life and more. Back to Arts & Lecture |
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