Jürgen Boomgaarden – författare

With the advances of medicine, questions of medical ethics have become more urgent and are now considered of great social and political significance. An innovatively designed, activity-based workbook, this text was prepared using papers and case studies collected from several countries in the European Union. It reflects the issues and concerns that confront clinical practitioners throughout Europe and elsewhere today and presents varying national responses in law and policy to these concerns, as identified by ethicists, lawyers, theologians and practitioners. The problems they examine include the relationship between medical research and medical practice, elementary regulations of medical research, the complexity of informed consent, and the role of the sponsor or scientific community.

With the advances of medicine, questions of medical ethics have become more urgent and are now considered of great social and political significance. An innovatively designed, activity-based workbook, this text was prepared using papers and case studies collected from several countries in the European Union. It reflects the issues and concerns that confront clinical practitioners throughout Europe and elsewhere today and presents varying national responses in law and policy to these concerns, as identified by ethicists, lawyers, theologians and practitioners. The problems they examine include the relationship between medical research and medical practice, elementary regulations of medical research, the complexity of informed consent, and the role of the sponsor or scientific community.

Liebe beschreibt ein Gefühl, eine Einstellung, einen Gedanken, eine Erfahrung, die Menschen zu dem Wichtigsten in ihrem Leben zählen. Die Liebe, zu anderen Menschen, zu Tieren, zu Gott, zu Göttern oder die von ihnen empfangene Liebe findet sich in höchst unterschiedlicher Gestalt und Bedeutung. Hat Liebe ihren wesentlichen Ausdruck in der Freundschaft, in der geschlechtlichen Vereinigung, in einem rituellen Vollzug oder in einem göttlichen Handeln? Der vorliegende Band besitzt seinen Schwerpunkt in der Frage, wie in den Religionen Liebe verstanden wird. Gerade im Christentum haben sich verschiedene Vorstellungen entwickelt, Gott, Mensch und Liebe miteinander zu denken. Doch auch philosophische und sich mit geistlicher und weltlicher Literatur beschäftigende Beiträge eröffnen entscheidende Perspektiven auf das unerschöpfliche Phänomen der Liebe.

"The Sickness unto Death", published in 1849, is a key-work for understanding Kierkegaard''s philosophy and theology. Kierkegaard exposes the manifold types of despair and sin of the modern citizen. But the sophisticated systematic shape of "The sickness unto Death" faced the interpreter with enormous problems. This volume deals especially with the interpretations of Michael Theunissen and Joachim Ringleben and developed the inner logic of Kierkegaard''s thought step by step in a new way. I give a fresh view of the famous sentences about men''s selfhood at the beginning of "The sickness unto Death" and shows, how the first section of Kierkegaard''s book, which deals with the phenomenon of despair, can related to its second section about sin.

Is the human embryo already a person? The possibilities of abortion and reproductive medicine, the destroying of the embryo for personal reasons, or for "high-level" medical research purposes, give this question an existential urgency that plunges many people into conflicts of conscience and ignites passionate discussions and public protests. Jürgen Boomgaarden gives a differentiated answer to the embryo status question from a protestant perspective. On the background of a broad presentation of theological, biological, philosophical, legal, and sociological insights and positions, this book unfolds a systematic theology of unborn human life.