Talks, Courses & Reading Clubs

Q&A with Dr. Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR.

Dr. Dugdale will discuss topics in biomedical ethics with faculty and students at St. John Fisher University. In particular, she will address her book "The Lost Art of Dying" which is used as text by students in a research writing course. Members of the community interested in attending should reach out to Dr. Ontiveros for details (fontiveros-llamas@sjf.edu).

Tuesday, November 19, 2024.

St. John Fisher University

Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics), is the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She also serves as Co-Director of Clinical Ethics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

A practicing internist, Dr Dugdale moved to Columbia in 2019 from Yale University, where she previously served as Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics. Her scholarship focuses on end-of-life issues, the role of aesthetics in teaching ethics, moral injury, and the doctor-patient relationship. She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying (HarperOne, 2020), a popular press book on the preparation for death. Dr Dugdale attended medical school at the University of Chicago, completed residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and holds a MAR in ethics from Yale Divinity School.

(Columbia University site)

Christianity in Politics 2024

Dr. Matthew Tuininga, Professor of Christian Ethics and the History of Christianity at Calvin Theological Seminary will speak at the Rochester Christian Reformed Church on the intersection of Christianity and Politics. There will be two talks:

Let the Church be the Church! Saturday, September 14 at 9am

Let Christians be Christians! Saturday, September 14 at 7pm

Topics in Biomedical Ethics

Medical practice and scientific research in the biomedical sciences are at their core human activities governed by reason. The desire to uncover mechanisms and develop approaches to improve human health must be accompanied by universal moral principles governed by human reason. One of the most obvious contributions of Philosophy to the natural sciences today is found in the application of ethical thinking. Found in guidelines for responsible conduct in research, the design of clinical trials or everyday medical practice, ethical principles are meant to protect vulnerable individuals and to promote harmony between scientific goals and the human person.

TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS (1 credit) Springs of 2024 & 2025 Syllabus. St. John Fisher University

Reading club

During the Fall semester (2023) we will read Crime and Punishment, by Dostoevsky and will meet once a week for discussion. All students are welcome and provided with a copy of the book. The discussion will be facilitated by Mr. Dan Berryment, Agathon Fellow.

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