The Center’s research seeks to provide a variety of volumes aimed across the spectrum of academic and popular literature to address the pressing ethical issues of our day at the intersection of biomedicine, biotechnology, and our common humanity. These volumes include current research projects involving Center staff, the facilitation of Center sponsored monographs and collaborative projects involving consultants, fellows, and affiliates, ongoing book series, and introductory materials explaining the basic issues raised in bioethics. The following are a list of current research projects:

Active Research & Publications:

• David P. Gushee, PhD, is in the research and composition stage of a volume on the sanctity of life (Eerdmans). This volume will appear in the Center’s series Critical Issues in Bioethics.
   
• Dónal P. O’Mathúna, PhD, chair of CBHD's Academy of Fellows is in the composition and editing stage of a volume on critical decision-making. 
   
• Michael J. Sleasman, PhD, is the General Editor along with C. Ben Mitchell, PhD, for the International Dictionary of Christian Bioethics (Zondervan). The Center is providing research support to this reference volume which will include numerous CBHD consultants, fellows, and affiliates.
   
• Kregel Publications has agreed to a proposal for revised editions of the Center's popular BioBasic series. Editing of these volumes will begin late 2011 and continue for the next few years.

Recent Publications:

• CBHD served as bioethics consultants with Austin Boyd for his novel, Nobody's Child (Zondervan, 2011). The novel dramatically explores bioethical issues related to selling human eggs. CBHD will continue to serve as consultants for Boyd on future bioethics novels in his Pandora File series.
   
• CBHD executive staff Paige C. Cunningham, JD, and Michael J. Sleasman, PhD, contributed a chapter entitled "Exploitation and the Global Medical Enterprise: Bioethics & Social Injustice" to Social Injustic: What Evangelicals Need to Know about the World edited by Michael T. Cooper and William J. Moulder (Timothy Center Press/Sacred Tribes Press, 2011). 
   
• Robert D. Orr, MD, published a volume of case studies for clergy and medical professionals (Eerdmans, 2009). This volume, Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor: A Handbook for Clergy and Health Care Professionals, appears in the Center’s series Critical Issues in Bioethics.