Catholic bioethics conference to examine crucial issues in health care |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 01:00 |
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio—Health care professionals face ethical dilemmas unknown to their counterparts a generation ago: sterilization, contraception, physician-assisted suicide, and embryonic research, to name a few.
How can health care institutions and professionals distinguish between morally legitimate and morally evil acts? What should they do if asked to cooperate with procedures or policies that compromise their own Catholic moral values and yet still maintain professionalism and show genuine compassion for patients?
These and related questions will be discussed at the Institute of Bioethics conference, “Moral Conviction vs. Political Pressure” to be held at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, Oct. 9-11.
“Many hot-button issues will be discussed,” says Dr. Patrick Lee, director of the Institute of Bioethics at Franciscan University. “This is a rare opportunity for doctors, nurses and others to interact with leading Catholic theologians, religious educators, ethicists and philosophers.”
Speakers include Auxiliary Bishop Anthony Fisher of the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia, who is the episcopal vicar for life and health for the archdiocese, professor of bioethics and moral theology at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life; Maureen L. Condic, associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine; Joseph M. Boyle, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto; Mark Stegman, senior fellow of the Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person; and John Crosby, professor of philosophy at Franciscan University.
Through co-sponsorship with Allegheny General Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Mercy Hospital, physicians, psychologists, nurses and other health care professionals who attend can receive continuing medical education credits.
To register, or for more information, call 800-437-8368 or visit www.franciscanconferences.com.
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Last Updated on Friday, 07 November 2008 08:59 |
