The Ethics of Nature

This accessible and timely book uses a Christian perspective to explore ethical debates about nature.

• A detailed exploration of humanity's treatment of the natural world from a Christian perspective.
  
• Covers a range of ethical debates, including current controversies about the environment, animal rights, biotechnology, consciousness, and cloning.
  
• Sets the immediate issues in the context of underlying theological and philosophical assumptions.
  
• Complex scientific issues are explained in clear student-friendly language.
  
• The author develops her own distinctive ethical approach centred on the practice of wisdom.
  
• Discusses key figures in the field, including Peter Singer, Aldo Leopold, Tom Regan, Andrew Linzey, James Lovelock, Anne Primavesi, Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Michael Northcott.
  
• The author has held academic posts in both theology and plant science.

Celia E. Deane-Drummond is Professor of Theology and Biological Sciences at University College Chester and Director of the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences. Her recent publications include Creation Through Wisdom: Theology and the New Biology (2000), Biology and Theology Today: Exploring the Boundaries (2001), Re-Ordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics (ed., 2003) and Brave New World: Theology, Ethics and the Human Genome (ed., 2003).