Les défis posés au chrétien par la technique médicale

The objectives of médecine, physical and mental healthfor ail mankind, détermine a tension between two imperatives : an ethical and a technological one. The author examines how thèse two are lived and oppose one another. From this confrontation émerges Bioethics. The bioethical structure established by scientists has a strong internai cohérence, because it is the outcome of the logical system which built the modem scientific édifice. The bioethical structure puis a question to the whole of society and in a particular way to the Christian community.Godfraind Théophile. Les défis posés au chrétien par la technique médicale. In: Revue théologique de Louvain, 17ᵉ année, fasc. 1, 1986. pp. 5-21