| These lectures address diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Speakers are MH&B faculty or special guests we've invited to present. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building, during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. Due to public interest, we've made these lectures open to all, inside and outside the Northwestern community. Please feel free to bring a lunch. |
Of all the debates in the public square, none has ignited passions as much as the debate between religion and science--reawakening topics long thought settled in law and scientific theory. From evolution, to stem cells, to genomic difference, to health care allocations--arguments that emerge from religious reasoning have taken on new significance. Does religion have a place in the science policy discourse? Can innovative or clever science research offer solutions to faith dilemmas? Is religion ever a reason to stop--or to start--research? Is religion a robust alternative to arguments in bioethics that derive their power from liberal theory or the logic of the free market? What is the meaning, nature and goal of the fundamentalist religious rejection of modernity? How are we to understand new--and fiercely contending texts from leading scientists--about the place of faith in science? This series of lectures will focus our attention on classic and new arguments about science and religion that have emerged around justice, obligation, predictions and prophecy, the nature of nature, and the nature of the self. Is Religion a Reason in Bioethics?: Ethics, Philosophy and Law in the Public Square
January 3 The Face of the Other: Debt and Forgiveness in Medicine and Science
January 10 Why Be Good?: Justice in an Unjust World
January 17 Responsibility and Freedom: Prophecy and Prognostication in Religion and Science
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