It has been both a privilege and a pleasure leading CBHD in this last year of transition. I believe we have maintained CBHD’s high standards in educating and equipping, as evidenced at the recent international conference on neuroethics, and seen exciting developments in our mission aim of engaging. There have been many more media opportunities, and significant developments with the websites and with podcasting.
It is therefore with some sadness that I now move on, by mutual agreement with the Board. We acknowledge it is time for new leadership to take CBHD on to the next stage of its development. CBHD will always have my heart and my prayers.
Dr. Andrew Fergusson
Plans are well underway for the 2007 summer conference! Bioethics Nexus: The Future of Healthcare, Science, and Humanity, scheduled for July 12-14, 2007, will peer into the future as much as possible to anticipate bioethics challenges we will face between now and mid-century. Instead of developing the ethical reflection after the fact, it would be better to anticipate where we are going and perhaps shape the direction of the future.
Mark your calendar now to save July 12-14, 2007, and watch this space for more information on plenary speakers, institute and seminar titles, and registration information.
Bobby Maddex, editor of the magazine Salvo and the online resource The Crux Project, explores the cultural cache—or sense of cool—that complicates bioethics issues in “Celling Out: Bioethics and the Culture of Cool.”
Amy Laura Hall, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theologcal Ethics at Duke Divinity School, discusses biotechnology and humanity in “Finding the Human in Christian Bioethics.”
“The Sanctity of Life” by David P. Gushee, Ph.D., University Fellow & Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. This article is the first in what will be a series of articles exploring the concept of the sanctity of life.
