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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Recent cases and media debates -- Recent cases -- Edward and Joan Downes -- Daniel James -- Tony Nicklinson -- Changing debates -- Rational suicide -- Human pain -- 2 History of euthanasia and international scene -- Early developments in the UK -- Euthanasia in Nazi Germany and beyond -- Euthanasia in the Netherlands -- Current euthanasia practice in the Netherlands -- Psychiatric illness -- Extension of euthanasia to other adult conditions -- Neonatal euthanasia -- Assisted suicide in Oregon -- Euthanasia in Belgium -- Assisted suicide in Switzerland -- 3 United Kingdom experience -- Campaigners aim for assisted suicide, not euthanasia -- Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill -- The language of the debate -- What does 'assisted dying' mean? -- Defining euthanasia -- Defining assisted suicide -- 4 Underlying forces -- Increasing lifespan -- Health consequences of an ageing population -- Alzheimer's disease and dementia -- Economic consequences of increasing lifespan -- How do these factors influence the assisted-suicide debate? -- Euthanasia as an altruistic option -- Euthanasia can provide organs for transplantation -- Too many people already -- 5 The argument from compassion -- Christian voices for assisting suicide from compassion -- So, what's wrong with the argument from compassion? -- Is there a difference between 'unbearable' and 'bearable' suffering? -- The shaky logic of euthanasia legislation -- 'Compassion' has been used to justify horrific crimes -- Are we more compassionate than we used to be? -- Can suffering have any positive value? -- Your 'compassion' may threaten my life -- The core meaning of compassion: 'It's good that you are alive' -- 6 The argument from autonomy -- I am the captain of my soul -- The individual is king

Matters of Life and Death -- CMF -- The London Lectures in Contemporary Christianity -- Previous Lectures: -- The London Lectures Trust -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mary and Jodie: conjoint twins -- Dr Anne Turner: a case of assisted suicide -- Joanna Jepson - late abortion and the law -- Ms B - the right to refuse medical treatment -- Zain Hashmi - the hope of a saviour sibling -- Diane Pretty - the right to die -- Tony Bland and the persistent vegetative state -- 1. What's going on? Fundamental themes in health care and society -- Theme 1: Progress in human biology and the triumph of scientific reductionism -- Scientific reductionism leads to a 'machine' view of humanity -- Scientific reductionism offers a way to self-mastery or self-transcendence -- Scientific reductionism leads to a belief in pure chance - the lottery of life -- Reductionism leads to pessimistic fatalism -- Theme 2: Advances in biotechnology - unparalleled technological inventiveness -- Biotechnology changes our view of what is 'natural' -- Biotechnology allows us to conquer our fears -- Biotechnology gives us new responsibilities for 'quality control' -- Theme 3: Rising consumer expectations -- Theme 4: Health economics and resource limitations -- Theme 5: Bioethics - an adventure playground for philosophers -- The 'four principles' approach to medical ethics: Beauchamp and Childress -- Liberal individualism: Ronald Dworkin -- The five new commandments of bioethics: Peter Singer -- Making better humans - the argument for enhancement -- 2. Biblical perspectives on humanness -- Creation -- The seven days of creation -- The image of God -- God's image implies dependence -- God's image implies communion -- God's image implies that we are his children -- God's image implies the dignity of each human life

La Serie: Grandes oportunidades y retos que el cristianismo enfrenta hoy es una continuación de un legado de más de dos décadas que ha colocado los problemas importantes de nuestra era bajo la lente del pensamiento bíblico. John Stott, con la ayuda de Roy McCloughry, combina una aguda conciencia global con el don de un análisis penetrante al examinar los retos principales de nuestra era.

Terrorism. Same-sex marriage. Debt cancellation. The AIDS pandemic. This fourth edition of Issues Facing Christians Today continues a two-decades-plus legacy of bringing important current issues under the lens of biblically informed thinking. Fully endorsed by John Stott, it has been thoroughly revised and updated by Roy McCloughry.

Abstract Perinatal asphyxia occurs in approximately 1–6 per 1000 live full‐term births. Different patterns of brain damage can result, though the relation of these patterns to long‐term cognitive‐behavioural outcome remains under investigation. The hippocampus is one brain region that can be damaged (typically not in isolation), and this site of damage has been implicated in two different long‐term outcomes, cognitive memory impairment and the psychiatric disorder schizophrenia. Factors in addition to the acute episode of asphyxia likely contribute to these specific outcomes, making prediction difficult. Future studies that better document long‐term cognitive‐behavioural outcome, quantitatively identify patterns of brain injury over development and consider additional variables that may modulate the impact of asphyxia on cognitive and behavioural function will forward the goals of predicting long‐term outcome and understanding the mechanisms by which it unfolds.

AbstractMany studies report chronic deficits in visual processing in children born preterm. We investigated whether functional abnormalities in visual processing exist in children born preterm but without major neuromotor impairment (i.e. cerebral palsy). Twelve such children (< 33 weeks gestation or birthweight < 1000 g) without major neuromotor impairment and 12 born full‐term controls were assessed at 8–12 years of age by means of ophthalmological assessment (visual acuity, colour vision, stereopsis, stereoacuity, visual fields, ocular motility, motor fusion), cognitive tests of visual‐motor, visual‐perceptual and visual‐spatial skills and pattern‐reversal visual evoked potentials (PR‐VEPs). All participants also underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain and neuromotor assessments. No significant differences were found between the groups on the ophthalmological, visual cognitive, neurological, neuromotor or MRI measures. The P100 component of the PR‐VEP showed a significantly shorter latency in the preterm compared with the full‐term participants. Whilst this P100 finding suggests that subtle abnormalities may exist at the neurophysiological level, we conclude that visual dysfunction is not systematically associated with preterm birth in the context of normal neurological status.