8th Annual Summer Conference
July 19-21, 2001
Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL
Plenary Speakers
Thursday, July 19
- Aging Experienced - Vernon Grounds, MDiv, PhD
- The Quest for Immortality - C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
Friday, July 20
- Aging and Age-Based Rationing of Life-Sustaining Health Care - John Kilner, PhD
- Ethical Challenges in Caregiving: Does Gray Hair Cause Grey Answers? Ethical Issues in an Aging Population - Robert Orr, MD
- Palliative Care - Jacqueline Cameron, MD
- Why No One Wants to Suffer or Die in America: A Christian Alternative - Stanley Hauerwas, PhD
- Extended Lives in Hope and Despair - Stephen Post, PhD
Saturday, July 21
- Long-Term Care - Carol Taylor, RN, PhD
- Ethics Challenges as Death Approaches: A Duty to Die? - Wesley Smith, JD
- Ethics Challenges as Death Approaches: Assisted Suicide: Offering Aging and Disabled People A Way Out? - Mark Pickup
- Caring for Yourself, Caring for Others: The Ultimate Balance - Diann Uustal, RN, EdD
Parallel Papers
Friday, July 20
- The Virtues of Talk Therapy for the Aging - Stephen P. Greggo, PsyD
- Neuropsychology and the Aging - Robert W. Evans, PhD
- Successful Aging: Living the End of Life to the Glory of God - John Dunlop, MD
- Equating Medical Professionalism with Entropy: Confronting a Postmodern Ethos and Lost Paradigms through Education - Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
- John Paul II and the Meaning of Suffering - J. Daryl Charles, PhD
- Death and the Doctrine of Man - Karl Shields, MA
- In Search of the Philosopher's Clone, Thoughts on Embryonic Stem Cell Technology - William P. Cheshire Jr., MD
- Different or the Same? Ethical Issues Surrounding Disability - Linda Treloar, PhD, RN
- Devaluation of the Elderly in Contemporary Society - Samuel Hensley, MD and Rev. Frank Ward
- Altruism and Organ Donation: What Does Love Have to Do with It? - Jennifer Lahl, BSN, MA
- Life-or-Death Decisions - Morse H. Tan, JD (cand. 2001)
Saturday, July 21
- Serious but Not Terminal - Brad F. Mellon, PhD
- End-of-Life Curve - Daryl Sas, PhD
- Honoring Ethical Decisions in Caring for Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease - Alma Labunski, PhD
- Elder Abuse: Prevention within the Family Context - Mary Hibbert, PhD
- The Church and Ministry Through/To the Aging - Gregory Waybright, PhD
- A Delight to Die? The Glory of God in the Death of His Own - Rev. R. Geoffrey Brown, PhD
Courses
- Intensive Bioethics Institute - Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD
- Advanced Bioethics Institute - John Kilner, PhD and John Feinberg, PhD
- Caregiving Bioethics Institute - Claretta Dupree, PhD
- Pre-Med Bioethics Institute - Joyce Shelton, PhD
- Wrap-Around Conference Graduate Course - Dennis Hollinger, PhD
- Wrap-Around Conference Undergraduate Course - Joyce Shelton, PhD
- Post-Conference Seminar on Bioethics and Technology - C. Ben Mitchell, PhD