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The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's positions or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.

• Amesbury, Richard, and George Newlands. Faith and Human Rights: Christianity and the Global Struggle for Human Dignity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008.
• Beyleveld, David, and Roger Brownsword. Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Burrow, Rufus, Jr. God and Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
• Childress, James F. “Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics.” Hastings Center Report 33, no. 3 (May-June 2003): 15-18.
• Duffy, Regis A., and Angelus Gambatese, eds. Made in God's Image: The Catholic Vision of Human Dignity. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1999.
• Hocken, Peter. The Banquet of Life: The Dignity of the Human Person. Stoke-on-Trent, UK: Alive, 2004.
• Jacobs, Joseph J. The Compassionate Conservative: Assuming Responsibility and Respecting Human Dignity. Oakland, CA: ICS, 1999.
• Jewett, Paul King, and Marguerite Shuster. Who We Are: Our Dignity As Human: A Neo-Evangelical Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.
• Kaczor, Christopher. The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics. New York: Springer, 2005.
• Luban, David. Legal Ethics and Human Dignity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Malpas, Jeff, and Norelle Lickiss, eds. Perspectives on Human Dignity. New York: Springer, 2007.
• Mason, Ian. The Right to Human Dignity. London: Simmonds & Hill, 2005.
• Montgomery, John W. Human Rights and Human Dignity. 2nd ed. Calgary: Canadian Institute for Law, Theology & Public Policy, 2005.
• President's Council on Bioethics. Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics.
• Soulen, R. Kendall, and Linda Woodhead. God and Human Dignity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.

Sanctity of life

• Barry, Robert L. The Sanctity of Human Life and Its Protection. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.
• Bayertz, Kurt, ed. Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity. New York: Springer, 1996.
• Francis, Joseph W. The Biblical Basis for the Sanctity of Life and the Inviolability of Man. N.p.: Cedarville College, 1996.
• Gushee, David P. “The New Testament and the Sanctity of Life.” The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.
• __________. “The Old Testament and the Sanctity of Life.” The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.
• __________. “The Sanctity of Life.” The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.
• __________. “The Sanctity of Life: Rethinking Eternal Truths in a New Political Era.” The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.
• Kuhse, Helga. The Sanctity-of-life Doctrine in Medicine: A Critique. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
• May, William E. Sex & Sanctity of Life. Front Royal, VA: Christendom, 2004.
• Novak, David. The Sanctity of Human Life. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007.
• Rose, Nikolas. The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-first Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
• Sproul, R.C., Charles W. Colson, Ronald J. Sider, Kay Coles James, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Abigail Rian Evans, Lewis
• B. Smedes, John Howard Yoder, and Richard J. Mouw. The Evangelical Round Table: The Sanctity of Life. 1988.
• Sweeney, Kathleen. “Jewish and Christian Leaders Seek Joint Witness in Defending the Sanctity of Human Life.” National Right to Life Committee.
• Swindoll, Charles R. Sanctity of Life: The Inescapable Issue. Nashville: W Publishing Group, 1990.
• Tada, Joni Eareckson, and Nigel M. De S. Cameron. How to Be a Christian in a Brave New World. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006.
• Waterhouse, Steven, and Alan Good, eds. The Sanctity of Life. Amarillo, TX: Westcliff, 2001.

Updated March 2009