The author first draws the reader into a consideration, of the current state of bioethics relating the story of his grandfather, a hard working family man who died a solitary death in the unfamiliar and sterile world of a hospital. Troubled by the way his grandfather died, Shuman explores how modern medicine has distanced itself from dealing with people as living beings beyond their immediate physicality. He examines how various approaches to bioethics over the past twenty years have tried to remedy this problem and how each of these ultimately has fallen short. From this point, Shuman deftly moves to a discussion of the centrality of the body to Christianity. Shuman, proposes a new kind of bioethics for Christians. where care for the body of Christ becomes the model of how we should care for and receive care from one another.

This fresh and thought-provoking book is sure to be of interest to ethicists, medical professionals, and everyone who is troubled by places where science and religion intersect and seem to conflict.