Updates & Activities - Winter 2018

Paige Cunningham, JD, PHD

• In October, taught five sessions at 2018 Bioethics Conference at Sanford Health – Bismarck (ND).
• In the early Fall, taught bioethics training for ministry residents at College Church, Wheaton, IL.
• Published the chapter, “It All Begins in Genesis: Thinking Theologically about Medicine, Technology, and the Christian Life” in Creation and Doxology: The Beginning and End of God’s Good World, edited by Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson (IVP Academic).
• Interviewed in November about surrogacy with the Christian Post.
• Interviewed about China’s gene-edited babies and genetically modified pigs on “Brian and Kathleen” (Moody Radio Cleveland) and “Let’s Talk with Mark Elfstrand” (WYLL Chicago).
  

Michael Sleasman, PHD

• Appointed to the Steering Committee on Bioethics for the Evangelical Theological Society.
  

Mario Tafferner, MA

• In November, presented “Heirs in Conflict: The Rivalry between Cain and Abel in its Northwest Semitic Background” at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society.
• In November, facilitated the Fall Theological Bioethics Roundtable Discussion of Jean-Claude Larchet’s Theology of the Body (St. Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2017).
  

Heather Zeiger, MS, MA

• Published “Boys Beating Girls” in the Fall 2018 issue of Salvo.
  

Global Impact

One of the aspects of CBHD’s outreach that we do not highlight all that regularly is the global impact of our online resources. In 2018, several of the Center’s websites hit record highs for our online traffic. Our flagship site CBHD.org had more than 2.6 million sessions through the first eleven months of the year. Our news site Bioethics.com had more than 1.5 million visits with 7.4 million pages viewed. And, for the first time ever, EverydayBioethics.org exceeded more than 500,000 sessions in a single year. Even more encouraging, CBHD.org alone had visitors using our site from 187 countries, a tangible demonstration of the Center’s global reach.

Strategic Partnerships

CBHD continues our ongoing partnership with the Christian Medical and Dental Associations (CMDA) and their bioethics initiatives. In early November, CBHD once again hosted the Fall meeting of CMDA’s ethics committee, chaired by CBHD Senior Fellow William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD.

On the CBHD Bookshelf

For those interested in knowing what Dove, Edward. “The EU General Data articles the Center staff have been reading and thought worth highlighting.

Articles of Note:

Block, Brian, Alexander Smith, and Rebecca Sudore. “Universal Advance Directives—Necessary but Not Sufficient.” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 46, no. 4 (2018): 988–990.

Bryan, Charles, and Scott Podolsky. “Sir William Osler (1849–1919)—The Uses of History and the Singular Beneficence of Medicine.” New England Journal of Medicine 381, no. 23 (2019): 2194–2195.

Dove, Edward. “The EU General Data Protection Regulation: Implications for International Scientific Research in the Digital Era.” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 46, no. 4 (2018): 1013–1030.

Foht, Brendan. “The New Kinship Engineering.” The New Atlantis 59 (2019): 3–12.

Parasidis, Efthimios, Elizabeth Pike, and Devan McGraw. “A Belmont Report for Health Data.” New England Journal of Medicine 380, no. 16 (2019): 1493–1495.

Rajkomar, Alvin, Jeffrey Dean, and Isaac Kohane. “Machine Learning in Medicine.” New England Journal of Medicine 380, no. 14 (2019): 1347–1358.

Sabatino, Charles. “Overcoming the Balkanization of State Advance Directive Laws.” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 46, no. 4 (2018): 978–987.

Silverman, Ross, Douglas Opel, and Saad Omer. “Vaccination over Parental Objection – Should Adolescents be Allowed to Consent to Receiving Vaccines?” New England Journal of Medicine 381, no. 2 (2019): 104–106.

Sim, Ida. “Frontiers in Medicine: Mobile Devices and Health.” New England Journal of Medicine 381, no. 10 (2019): 956–968.