Bioethics in the New Millennium

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