“Bioethics and Environmental Ethics” lecture to explore link between personal health and care for creation

“Bioethics and Environmental Ethics” lecture to explore link between personal health and care for creation
On January 25, 2024, at 7 pm, Fr. Myles Sheehan, S.J. will be offering the Annual Jesuit Lecture for the Centre for Christian Engagement at St. Mark’s College. His lecture is titled “Bioethics and Environmental Ethics.” Bioethics originally began as a focus on the environment and the living world around us. The focus of bioethics in the 1960s shifted to clinical dilemmas in the wake of the development of new technologies and concerns over how persons were treated as patients. The current climate change crisis has led clinical bioethics to remember its roots and consider how the health of persons is linked to our deteriorating environment. Catholic bioethics, in particular, is challenged by Pope Francis’s writings Laudato Si’ and Laudato Deum.
Fr. Sheehan is uniquely trained to address this topic as a physician, professor of medicine, ethicist, and Jesuit priest. Currently he directs the Pellegrino Center for Biomedical Ethics at Georgetown University. At Georgetown, Fr. Sheehan teaches Catholic Clinical Ethics and serves on the ethics consultation service at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
This event is free to the public, but kindly register beforehand on Eventbrite link . Light refreshments to follow the question and answer session.

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