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Professor Robert Song's Outputs (31)

Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study (2023)
Journal Article
Poole, R., Cook, C. C. H., Song, R., & Robinson, C. A. (2023). Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study. BJPsych Bulletin, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2023.66

Aims and method
Calls for the integration of spirituality into psychiatric practice have raised concerns about boundary violations. We sought to develop a method to capture psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries and spirituality, explor... Read More about Psychiatrists’ attitudes to professional boundaries concerning spirituality and religion: mixed-methods study.

Against Agonistic Liberalism: Milbank and Pabst's Relentless Pursuit of Radical Anglican Thomism (2019)
Journal Article
Song, R. (2019). Against Agonistic Liberalism: Milbank and Pabst's Relentless Pursuit of Radical Anglican Thomism. Studies in Christian Ethics, 32(2), 271-277. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946819826323

Milbank and Pabst’s account of liberalism as rooted in ontological violence picks out the secret commonalities of left-leaning rights-based and right-leaning market-based liberalisms with considerable shrewdness, and their elaboration of associationi... Read More about Against Agonistic Liberalism: Milbank and Pabst's Relentless Pursuit of Radical Anglican Thomism.

Experiences of Faith Group Members Using New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: A Qualitative Interview Study (2016)
Journal Article
Scully, J. L., Banks, S., Song, R., & Haq, J. (2017). Experiences of Faith Group Members Using New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: A Qualitative Interview Study. Human Fertility, 20(1), 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/14647273.2016.1243816

This paper explores the experiences of members of faith groups deciding whether or not to use new reproductive or genetic technologies (NRGTs). It is based on 16 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with people with direct experience of NRGTs. Partic... Read More about Experiences of Faith Group Members Using New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: A Qualitative Interview Study.

Introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Song, R., & Waters, B. (2015). Introduction. In R. Song, & B. Waters (Eds.), The Authority of the Gospel: Essays in Moral and Political Theology in Honor of Oliver O'Donovan (xi-xxi). Grand Rapids, Mi.: Eerdmans

Gender and Career Progression in Theology and Religious Studies (2013)
Report
Guest, M., Sharma, S., & Song, R. (2013). Gender and Career Progression in Theology and Religious Studies. [No known commissioning body]

The low proportion of women within the subject areas of Theology and Religious Studies has long been observed, and is increasingly recognised as a serious problem for staff and students. In this new study, Mathew Guest, Sonya Sharma and Robert Song c... Read More about Gender and Career Progression in Theology and Religious Studies.

Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Ethics of Mutilation (2013)
Journal Article
Song, R. (2013). Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Ethics of Mutilation. Studies in Christian Ethics, 26(4), 487-503. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946813492921

The rare phenomenon in which a person desires amputation of a healthy limb, now often termed body integrity identity disorder, raises central questions for biomedical ethics. Standard bioethical discussions of surgical intervention in such cases fail... Read More about Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Ethics of Mutilation.

Bonhoeffer and the Biotechnological Imagination. (2010)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2010). Bonhoeffer and the Biotechnological Imagination. In R. K. Wüstenberg, S. Heuser, & E. Hornung (Eds.), Bonhoeffer and the Biosciences: An Initial Exploration (75-87). Peter Lang

Humanity, Divinity and Interspecies Embryos. (2009)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2009). Humanity, Divinity and Interspecies Embryos. In S. W. Smith, & R. Deazley (Eds.), The Legal, Medical and Cultural Regulation of the Body: Transformation and Transgression (127-141). Ashgate Publishing

The Bible and Human Genetics. (2009)
Book Chapter
Song, R. (2009). The Bible and Human Genetics. In M. Bratton (Ed.), God, Ethics and the Human Genome (33-45). Church House Publishing

Genetic Manipulation and the Body of Christ (2007)
Journal Article
Song, R. (2007). Genetic Manipulation and the Body of Christ. Studies in Christian Ethics, 20(3), 399-420. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946807082935

Efforts to distinguish therapeutic from non-therapeutic genetic interventions in the human body have floundered on the assumption that the body should be understood as a psycho-physical corpus. This article argues by contrast that the body of Christ,... Read More about Genetic Manipulation and the Body of Christ.