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The Distinguished Lecturer Series
The Distinguished Lecturer Series in the Department of Health Care Ethics promotes opportunities to invite internationally established ethicists to lecture at Saint Louis University. The purpose of the series it to discuss major emerging issues in the field of health care ethics with our faculty and doctoral students as well as the larger University community.
| 10/9/09 |
2009 Distinguished Lecturer Presentation: Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D. |
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"Taking Professional Conscience Seriously" |
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Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D., is the Dalton Tomlin Chair in Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. McCullough has published 370 papers in the peer-reviewed medical and bioethics literature. In addition, he has published 50 original chapters in scholarly books and more than 100 chapters in medical textbooks. |
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Noon. School of Law Courtroom |
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| 10/10/08 |
2008 Distinguished Lecturer Presentation: Mark Cherry, PhD |
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"Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market" |
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Mark J. Cherry, PhD is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Saint Edward's University in Austin, Texas; and is coeditor 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). |
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| 11/10/06 |
2006 Distinguished Lecturer Presentation: James F. Childress, PhD |
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"Just Care: Rationing in a Public Health Crisis" |
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Dr. Childress is the Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics and Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia, where he directs the Institute for Practical Ethics. He is the author of numerous articles and several books in biomedical ethics, including Priorities in Biomedical Ethics, Practical Reasoning in Bioethics, and the classic bioethics text, Principles of Biomedical Ethics (with Tom L. Beauchamp), now in its 5th edition. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and served on the Presidentially-appointed National Bioethics Advisory Commission from 1996 to 2001. |
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| 09/09/05 |
2005 Distinguished Lecturer Presentation: Laurie Zoloth, PhD |
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"Justice is the One Thing You Must Always Find: Access to Health Care in an Unfinished World" |
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Laurie Zoloth is Professor of Medical Humanities & Bioethics and Director of Ethics at the Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She is also a Professor of Religion at Northwestern University. During the 1990s as a member of the Bioethics Consultation Group in Berkeley California, Dr. Zoloth helped pioneer the practice of ethics consultation. Bringing together her experience in nursing, her training in bioethics, and her deep academic and personal involvement in Judaism, she has contributed not only to our understanding of clinical ethics, but also to issues in public policy such as the just allocation of healthcare resources and the ethics of federal involvement in genetic research. Dr. Zoloth is former president (2001) of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) and author of numerous scholarly publications related to bioethics, including Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice (University of North Carolina, 1999). |
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| 09/10/04 |
2004 Distinguished Lecturer Presentation: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., MD, PhD |
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"Birth of Bioethics Critically Reassessed" |
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H. Tristram Engelhardt is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University and Professor Emeritus at Baylor College of Medicine. He has held appointments at Rice and Baylor since 1983, after leaving Georgetown University where he was the Rosemary Kennedy Professor of Philosophy of Medicine. Dr. Engelhardt is editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, senior editor of Christian Bioethics, and editor of the Philosophy and Medicine book series. He is also editor of the book series Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. He has authored over two hundred ninety-five articles and chapters of books in addition to over one hundred ten book reviews and other publications. There have been over one hundred thirty-five re-printings or translations of his publications. He has also co-edited more than twenty-five volumes and has lectured widely throughout the world. His books include Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality (Philadelphia/London: Trinity Press International/SCM Press, 1991) and the second, thoroughly revised edition of the Foundations of Bioethics (New York: Oxford, 1996). His most recent work is The Foundations of Christian Bioethics (Netherlands: Sweets & Zeitlinger, 2000). |
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| 09/19/03 |
2003 Distinguished Lecturer Presentation: Jonathan Moreno, PhD |
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"Human Experimentation and Bioterrorism" |
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Dr. Moreno is the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia. Dr. Moreno is a member of the Board on Health Sciences Policy of the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences), and of the Council on the Accreditation of the Association of Human Research Protection Programs. He is president-elect of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. Moreno's numerous scholarly publications include In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis (MIT Press, 2003) and Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans (Routledge, 2001), which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a Virginia Literary Award. |
Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics
Mailing Address: Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics
221 North Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103-2006
Campus address: O'Brien Hall, Frost Campus
Telephone: (314) 977-6661
Fax: (314) 977-5150
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