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Bio-ethics lecture series

<p align="left"> <b><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-Bold" size="7"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-Bold" size="7"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-Bold" size="7">Religion, Ethics, and Dying:</font></font></font></b></p> <p align="left"> <b><i><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-BoldItalic" size="7"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-BoldItalic" size="7"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-BoldItalic" size="7">Controversies and Perspectives</font></font></font></i></b></p> <p align="left"> <b><font color="#d4dce6" face="Calibri-Bold" size="7"><font color="#d4dce6" face="Calibri-Bold" size="7"><font color="#d4dce6" face="Calibri-Bold" size="7">Bio-Ethics Lecture Series</font></font></font></b></p> <p align="left"> <font color="#005dac" face="Calibri"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri">Join Dr. Gerard Magill and Dr. Jonathan Crane as their presenta on sheds light on what pa ents and families</font></font></p> <p align="left"> <font color="#005dac" face="Calibri"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri">can expect from medicine to support a good death. Medical technology increasingly complicates the dying</font></font></p> <p align="left"> <font color="#005dac" face="Calibri"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri">process, especially challenging religious belief and ethics. As Catholic and Jewish scholars, they will discuss</font></font></p> <p align="left"> <font color="#005dac" face="Calibri"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri">controversies and perspec ves including withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, pallia ve care measures &amp;</font></font></p> <p align="left"> <font color="#005dac" face="Calibri"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri">assisted suicide, and criteria of death for transplanta on of organs and ssues. Addi onal lectures to follow in</font></font></p> <p align="left"> <font color="#005dac" face="Calibri"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri">January and March 2015. One contact hour of CME and CEU available upon request</font></font></p> <p align="left"> <font color="#005dac" face="Calibri"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri">Moderator: Dr. Yve e E. Pearson, Chair, Old Dominion University, Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies</font></font></p> <p align="left"> <b><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-Bold" size="6"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-Bold" size="6"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-Bold" size="6">Thursday, September 4, 2014</font></font></font></b></p> <p align="left"> <b><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-Bold" size="5"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-Bold" size="5"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-Bold" size="5">Old Dominion University</font></font></font></b></p> <p align="left"> <b><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-Bold" size="5"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-Bold" size="5"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-Bold" size="5">6:30pm in the Chandler Recital Hall</font></font></font></b></p> <p> <b><i><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-BoldItalic" size="4"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-BoldItalic" size="4"><font color="#005dac" face="Calibri-BoldItalic" size="4">Free and Open to the Public. Registraon required at </font></font></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri-BoldItalic" size="4"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri-BoldItalic" size="4"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri-BoldItalic" size="4"><a href="https://www.bsvaf.org/bio-ethics">https://www.bsvaf.org/bio-ethics</a></font></font></font></i></b></p>
* Bio-Ethics.pdf  (388.3 KB)

Posted By: FARIDEH GOLDIN
Date: Tue Aug 26 11:08:20 EDT 2014

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