Consumerism and medicalization have redefined our everyday understanding of health and wellbeing in contemporary medicine. As the concept of health has narrowed through rising emphases on diagnostics, medical therapeutics, and outcomes, have we lost meaningful aspects of health as it relates to human flourishing? Furthermore, has our pursuit of individual health been at the expense of our common humanity?
The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity's 20th Annual Summer Conference, Health & Human Flourishing will explore the impact of contemporary notions of health within the context of advances in medicine, science, and technology for our individual and common humanity.
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES:
IDENTIFY the prospects and challenges for promoting robust conceptions of health within the context of advances in medicine and biotechnology.
EXPLORE & DISCUSS the ethical implications of recent developments in medicine, science, and technology with respect to our individual and common humanity.
EVALUATE contemporary formulations of health in light of classic orientations toward care and comfort.
PROMOTE networking and interdisciplinary engagement on pressing bioethical issues.
Conditions for Human Flourishing - Francis Cardinal George, OMI, Archbishop of Chicago
Friday, July 19
Shalomic Nursing: Flourishing and Professional Care - Bart Cusveller, PhD
Symposium: Health and Human Flourishing through the Lens of . . .
Physical Health - Cheyn Onarecker, MD
Patient Care - Jane Hall, BSN, MS
Research - Joyce Shelton, PhD
Mental Health - William Struthers, PhD
Disability - Kathy McReynolds, PhD
Saturday, July 20
Human Flourishing: In Sickness and in Health - Allen Verhey, PhD
Advancing Science While Respecting Life: The Future of the Stem Cell Debates - William B. Hurlbut, MD
Reframing the Discussion - Michael J. Sleasman, PhD
Parallel Papers
Friday, July 19
Reconstructing Ethics at the End of Life - Christian J. Vercler, MD, MA
Compassionate Access to New Investigational Drugs: Short and Long-term Ethics Concerns - James J. Rusthoven, MD, MHSc, PhD
On the Consistency of the Sanctity of Human Life Principle & Qualified Quality of Life Considerations: A Philosophical Sketch - Patrick Smith, MDiv, MA, PhD (Cand.)
Narrative Medicine and the Ontology of Modern Healthcare - Matthew S. Vest, MALA
Assessing Spirituality for Shared Decision Making and Bioethical Conversations - Stephen P. Greggo PsyD
To See Differently: Incorporating the Arts into Bioethics Education - Terry Maksymowych, PhD
The Norms of Practice in Emerging Medical Technologies: Oocyte Donation as a Case Study - James Rhea, MA, PhD (Cand.)
Ethics of Organ Preservation Protocols - Christine Toevs, MD
Contingent Humanity and the Grounds of "Human Dignity" - Jessica Wilson, MA, PhD (Cand.)
Human Flourishing from a Biblical Perspective: Continuity, Discontinuity, and Their Implications for Contemporary Conceptualizations - Susan M. Haack, MD, MA, MDiv, FACOG
Saturday, July 20
Healthcare Ethics: From Theory to Applied - Kathy D. Gennuso, PhD, MS
Being Salt in a Secular Medical School: Use of a Debate Format for Outpatient Primary Care and Public Health Case Scenarios? - Richard K. Zimmerman, MD, MPH, MA
Medical and Ethical Considerations in Medical Tourism - Sharon A. Falkenheimer, MD, MPH, MA
Freedom for Life: Karl Barth, Transhumanism, and Human Flourishing - Jonathan Cahill, MA
Human Flourishing and Keeping Up Appearances - Christian J. Vercler, MD & Kate H. Kraft, MD
Research Ethics - Jennifer Nailes, MD, MSPH
Not Preaching to the Choir: Talking to Medical Students about Abortion from a Pro-Life Position - Joseph Gibes, MD
Meeting the Person Behind the Patient: Nurses' Hidden Grasp of Flourishing - Ria Den Hertog-Voortman, RN, MSc, PhD (Cand.)
On Healthy and Flourishing Humans: Taking the Soul Seriously - Ryan R. Nash, MD, MA
Can Limits Contribute to Health and Human Flourishing? A Consideration of Mortality, Aging, and the Goals of Modern Science - Autumn Alcott Ridenour, MA, PhD (Cand.)
History of Dialysis, with a Special Emphasis on Humanitarian Medicine - Dale Erickson, MD
Performance Enhancement in Sports: Drawing Ethical Lines Based on a Design Perspective of the Body - Heather Zeiger, MS
Courses
Intensive Bioethics Institute - Paige Comstock Cunningham, JD
Advanced Bioethics Institute - Michael Sleasman, PhD
Current Issues in the Ethics of Organ Transplantation Institute - Gregory Rutecki, MD
Genetic Ethics & Prenatal Diagnosis Institute - D. Joy Riley, MD
Undergraduate Bioethics Institute - Joyce Shelton, PhD
Undergraduate/Graduate Wrap-Around Course - Ferdinand D. Yates, Jr., MD
Graduate Wrap-Around Course - Hans Madueme, MD, PhD Candidate with guest lectures by Dennis Hollinger, PhD
Post-Conference Seminar: Bioethics and International Human Rights - Morse Tan, JD, & Richard Stith, JD, PhD
