Seminars

CAM-17  ~  "Yesterday's Ethics for Tomorrow's Medicine?" with Nigel Cameron and Robert Orr

At the core of western medical tradition is the fundamental belief in human dignity.  The study of medicine—of humankind created in the image of God—is intrinsically moral in nature.   Modern methods of research, as well as debates on abortion and euthanasia, directly confront this key Christian tenant.  How can and will traditional Christianity answer?  Join us as we discuss not only these core, philosophical issues, but also the practical application of serving the Great Physician in the medical field. 

 

Nigel Cameron is President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (c-pet.org), a new nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC, and Research Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He also directs the IIT-affiliated Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future, a civil society coalition from left and right of the cultural spectrum focused on issues of technology and human dignity, and is a director of 2020health.org, a UK health policy think tank. Cameron has published widely in theology, bioethics, and technology policy. His books include Are Christians Human? (recently re-issued on Mars Hill Audio), Human Dignity in the Biotech Century (co-editor), How to be a Christian in a Brave New World (co-authored with Joni Eareckson Tada), and the just-published Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century (co-editor).  He has represented the U.S. as bioethics advisor on delegations to the United Nations, is a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, and in 2008, was appointed the U.S. nominee to be the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health.

Robert D. Orr, M.D., C.M., is Consultant on Clinical Ethics and chair of the Advisory Board at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity; Clinical Ethicist at Fletcher Allen Health Care and Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine; and Professor of Bioethics at the Graduate College of Union University (NY). He also holds academic appointments at Loma Linda University (CA) and Trinity International University (IL).  He has co-authored two books, co-edited three others, contributed 10 book chapters, and over 130 articles related to clinical ethics, the ethics consultation process, and issues in terminal care. Wm. Eerdmans will release his latest book, Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor in 2009.  He has given lectures on these topics regionally, nationally and internationally. In the spring of 2006 he was Scholar in Residence at The Kilns in Oxford.

 

 

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