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September 3 , 2007 • VOL. 45, NO. 15 • Oakland, CA
Bioethics seminar
Oct. 3 in San Francisco
A seminar on health care ethics, designed to emphasize compassionate service
for the sick and the poor, will be held at St. Mary’s Cathedral
in San Francisco on Oct. 3. All health care professionals, educators,
chaplains, clergy and interested lay persons are invited to attend.
Topics will include the ethical and religious directives for Catholic
health care, reproductive technologies and the integrity of marriage,
the moral status of the human embryo, human embryonic stem cell research
and human cloning, ordinary and extraordinary means of prolonging life,
and advanced directives and health care proxies.
Seminar speakers include moral theologian John M. Hass, a member of the
Pontifical Academy for Life in 2006, and Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, who
holds a doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and served as a post-doctoral
fellow at Harvard Medical School.
Thompson Faller, a professor of philosophy and the ethics of health care
at Portland University, is also scheduled to speak.
Dr. Vince Fortanasce, a member of the National Catholic Bioethics Center
who lives in Arcadia, will moderate a panel discussion at the end of the
day. The panel will focus on particular challenges facing California.
Cost is $135 and includes a continental breakfast and lunch. Participants
must register in advance at www.ncbcenter.org.
The seminar is presented by the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC)
in Philadelphia, and sponsored by the Daughters of Charity Health System.
The Daughters of Charity operate Seton Medical Center in Daly City and
Seton Medical Center Coastside in Half Moon Bay.
