7th Annual Summer Conference
July 20-22, 2000
Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL
Plenary Speakers
Thursday, July 20
- The Challenges and Opportunities Ahead - Richard Swenson, MD
- Worship: Facing the Future - Johnny Hunter
Friday, July 21
- Money and Health Care - Scott Rae, PhD
- Christian Vision for Moral Decisions in Bioethics - Cardinal Francis George, OMI, PhD
- Multi-Culturalism and Cross-Culturalism - John Patrick, MD
- Spirituality and Alternative Medicine - Donal O’ Mathuna, MD (Discussant Robert Orr, MD)
- Will the Care Be Squeezed out of Health Care? - Diann Uustal, RN, EdD
- The Genetic Revolution - Francis Collins, MD, PhD (Discussants Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD, Clark Forsythe, JD, and Nancy Jones, PhD)
Saturday, July 22
- Artificial Life and Intelligence - Mitchell Wilkes, PhD
- Cybernetics and Nanotechnology - Christopher Hook, MD
- Xenotransplantation - E. David Cook, PhD (Discussant Jim Leffel, MA)
- Ethical Challenges Ahead - C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
- Media and Public Policy Challenges Ahead - Helen Alvare, JD (Discussant John Kilner, PhD)
Parallel Papers
Friday, July 21
- Training Healthcare Professionals to Think through Bioethical Problems - Samuel Hensley, MD
- The Institutional Review Board as Venue for Ethics Education - Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
- When Experimental Treatments Become "Standard" - Lynne Boughton, PhD
- Can We Really Protect Human Subjects in Clinical Research Trials? - William Henderson, MTh, CMPE
- A Biblical View of Medical Technology - Daryl Sas, PhD
- Those Genetic Issues Just Won't Go Away - Arthur D. Holden
- The Significance of the Image of God, Rights, and the Pro-Life Movement - Bradley Beck, MD
- Thomas Aquinas and the Proper End of Life - Jason Eberl, PhD
- Two Philosophical Systems of Medical Ethics - Dale Erickson, MD
- Honoring Ethical Decisions in Healthcare Higher Education - Alma Labunski, PhD
Saturday, July 22
- Transgenic (Hybrid) Human/Animals - Nancy Jones, PhD
- Cloning Around: New Biology in the Light of Old Bibliology - R. Peter Mason, DMin
- Facing Future Death - Jerome Wernow, PhD
- Personhood and Artificial Intelligence - Robert Garcia, MA
- When True Love Means Always Using A Condom: Relational Implications of HIV/STD Prevention - Mary Adam, MD
- Pressuring Patients into Accepting Unethical Medical Treatments - Owen B. Griffiths, JD
- The Treatment of Intersex in the New Millennium (2 parts) - Daniel A. Beals, MD
- Suicide and Rationality - Robert Evans, PhD
- Ministering to People from Transgender and Intersexual Backgrounds - Brad Sargent
Courses
- Intensive Bioethics Institute - Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD
- Advanced Bioethics Institute - John Kilner, PhD
- Postmodern Bioethics Institute - C. Ben Mitchell, PhD
- Graduate Wrap-Around Conference Course - David Fletcher, PhD
- Undergraduate Wrap-Around Conference Course - Joyce Shelton, PhD
- Pre-Med Bioethics Institute - Joyce Shelton, PhD
- Bioethics and the Professions: Bioethics and the Law - Paige Cunningham, JD; Nursing Ethics - Claretta Dupree, RN, PhD; Physician Ethics - Eugene Diamond, MD; Bioethics and the Church - Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD