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Calendar of Events
Announcing the MacLaurin Insitute's Summer Seminar, "The Problem with the Modern Self: Imagining Personhood in Light of Limitations, Disability, and Suffering"
August 2, 2011; 7:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
2010 Faith and Bioethics Lecture
On Thursday, November 11, at noon, the MacLaurin Institute will host Gilbert Meilaender of Valparaiso University for the 8th Annual Faith and Bioethics Lecture. Prof. Meilaender will speak on “Gifts of the Body: Procuring Organs for Transplant.” The Faith and Bioethics Lecture is cosponsored by the Division of Transplant Surgery; the Program in Human
Rights and Health; and the Christian Medical and Dental Association.
Fueled by long waiting lists for transplantation, a number of voices in recent years have pressed the case for using financial incentives to increase the number of available organs. Is opposition to such a move “narrow-minded” and “unimaginative,” as some have charged? Since our society seems committed to organ transplantation, is there any good reason not to take a further step that might provide organs for more people who need them?
Gilbert Meilaender is Professor of Theology and Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. He was also a Member of the Presidential Council on Bioethics under the second Bush Administration. The lecture, which will start with pizza at 12:00pm, will be held in Moos Tower, Room 2-520, 515 Delaware Street SE, on the main Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. Click here for transportation and parking directions.
Click here for the event poster.
Fueled by long waiting lists for transplantation, a number of voices in recent years have pressed the case for using financial incentives to increase the number of available organs. Is opposition to such a move “narrow-minded” and “unimaginative,” as some have charged? Since our society seems committed to organ transplantation, is there any good reason not to take a further step that might provide organs for more people who need them?
Gilbert Meilaender is Professor of Theology and Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. He was also a Member of the Presidential Council on Bioethics under the second Bush Administration. The lecture, which will start with pizza at 12:00pm, will be held in Moos Tower, Room 2-520, 515 Delaware Street SE, on the main Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. Click here for transportation and parking directions.
Click here for the event poster.
