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Posted on 08/18/2007 11:05:45 AM PDT by wagglebee
STEUBENVILLE — The nation’s leading Catholic bioethicists will convene at Franciscan University of Steubenville Oct. 25-27 to provide thoughts and beliefs on abortion, stem cell research, assisted suicide and other life and death issues.
Hosted by Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Institute of Bioethics, “Human Life: Its Beginning and End” is geared toward health care professionals who must grapple with complex medical ethics issues, sometimes on a daily basis, according to officials.
Nurses, physicians and psychologists can receive continuing medical education credits through arrangements with Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy and Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.
”Attendees will come away from the conference with a stronger grasp on how to approach these issues from an ethical foundation,” said Dr. Patrick Lee, director of Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Institute of Bioethics. “They will also be better prepared to discuss the sometimes complex ethical problems concerning life at its beginning and its end with their colleagues, patients and patients’ family members.”
Presenters include Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, founder of the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University and chairman of the President’s Bioethics Council; Robert P. George, McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University and member of the President’s Council on Bioethics; Dr. William Hurlbut, member of the President’s Council on Bioethics; Christopher Tollefsen, department of philosophy, University of South Carolina; Laura Garcia, department of philosophy, Boston College; and Dr. Patrick Lee and others.
The faculty will examine the basic scientific and ethical arguments on embryonic stem cell research; the ethical arguments regarding abortion, physician-assisted suicide and withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment; and the basic spiritual, ethical and theological value and purposes of health care work, according to officials.
Panel discussions will be held on concrete clinical cases involving beginning-of-life and end-of-life issues, material or formal cooperation, the meaning of suffering and the nobility of the health care professions.
Through joint-sponsorship with Allegheny General Hospital, category 1 credits for physicians and continuing education for psychologists will be provided.
This offering has been approved by the Ohio Board of Nursing, and 18.5 contact hours will be awarded upon successful completion of this program.
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Not at Franciscan. This is one of the MOST Catholic universities I know of. Certainly, they shame the “big names” like Georgetown or Notre Dame.
This university is a place that has a memorial “to the Unknown Child.” In other words, to the victims of abortion.
FUS is a seriously Catholic institution, perhaps even more so than Wheeling Jesuit University, about 25 miles or so down the Ohio River. Given the university’s stand on abortion, I see no reason to believe the bioethicists at this particular conference will be “pro-death.”
Thanks for your imput. Hopefully, the “bioethicists” they invited value life more than death.
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