The
Distinguished Lecturer Series
Mark J. Cherry, PhD Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation and the
Market
Friday, October 10th, 12:00 pm, School of Law Courtroom
Dr. Cherry addresses the question of establishing a free but regulated
market for organ transplantation in this presentation based on his
2005 book of the same title. Mark J. Cherry, Ph.D. is the Dr. Patricia
A. Hayes Professor in Applied Ethics at Saint Edward's University
in Austin, Texas. He is also a co-editor, along with H. Tristram Engelhardt,
Jr., of Allocating Scarce Medical Resources, senior associate editor
of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, senior associate editor
of Christian Bioethics, and editor-in-chief of HealthCare Ethics Committee
Forum (HEC Forum).
Richard
J. Childress Memorial Lecture
Sandra H. Johnson, JD, LLM Still Crazy After All These Years
Friday, October 17th, 9:30 am, School of Law Courtroom
Sandra
H. Johnson will be presenting this year's keynote lecture in the Richard
J. Childress Memorial Lecture Series. She will explore the rocky relationship
between law, medicine and ethics. There will also be several panel
discussions featuring nationally recognized scholars following Professor
Johnson's address. Find
out more!
"The
Challenge of Peace: Bishops' Letter 25th Anniversary"
Thursday, November 13, 2008; Grand Hall, DuBourg Hall; 7:00 pm.
SLU Interdisciplinary Faculty Panel share their thoughts and reflections.
Panelists include: Jim Allen (Social Work), Michael Barber, S.J. (Philosophy),
Tobias Winright (Theological Studies), and Michael Baxter from Notre
Dame. Michael
Baxter (B.A., Allegheny College; M.Div. University of Notre Dame;
Ph.D., Duke University) teaches theological ethics at the University
of Notre Dame and is the author of several articles which he is currently
bringing together into a book entitled The Sign of Peace: Essays on
War, Conscience, and Peacemaking in Catholic Tradition. He also serves
National Secretary of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, an organization
decided to supporting conscientious objectors (including selective
conscientious objectors) to war through education, counseling, and
advocacy. He lives and works at the Catholic Worker in South Bend,
Indiana. His articles have appeared in the DePaul Law Review, Pro
Ecclesia, Communio, The Thomist, and Modern Theology.
EAC
Links Feature
Two
websites offering perspectives not usually encountered in the
mainstream press...
DoNoHarm
- A website for those interested in the developments of adult
stem cell therapy. It also contains articles calling into question
"therapeutic" cloning, or somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Distributivism
- An approach to business and economics from the perspective of
personalism, natural law, and the Catholic social justice tradition.
It is offered by John C. Medaille, author of the newly released
book, The Vocation of Business. The site provides articles
on distributivism, selections from The Vocation of Business,
Other Writings and Links.
Read
a review of three recent books in Health Care Ethics.
