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In recent years there has been a growing body of research aiming to understand the mechanisms that underlie ageing in order to extend the human lifespan. In this presentation, I consider some of the ethical issues raised by this research and pursuit. In addition, I interrogate some of the underlying assumptions of this pursuit by drawing on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theological anthropology and insights into ageing from the philosopher Jean Améry.

DR MICHAEL MAWSON

Dr Michael Mawson holds a doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and teaches theology and ethics at the United Theological College of Charles Sturt University in Sydney Australia. He has particular interests in modern German theology and ethics, bioethics, phenomenology, and the writing of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He has completed a monograph on Bonhoeffer’s ecclesiology and is at the beginning of a new project on ethics and ageing. He has co-edited four books including the Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Michael’s work has also appeared in The Scottish Journal of Theology, The International Journal of Systematic Theology, and The Journal of Religion, Disability and Health.

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