Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics

Volume 41, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2021

Michael McCarthy
Pages 73-88

Beyond a Bourgeois Bioethics

This essay draws on the work of Johann Baptist Metz to reimagine a Christian Bioethics that develops from the place of suffering. Beginning from the place of suffering resists the future offered within the scientific-technological paradigm. In turning to Metz, Christian bioethics should give greater attention to complex social structures that contribute to injustices and inequalities resulting in health disparities and unnecessary deaths.