http://www.ai.edu RSS feeds for Aquinas Institute of Theology 60 http://www.ai.edu/AboutUs/PressReleases/tabid/69/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/93/Resources-on-Stem-Cell-Research.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.ai.edu/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=69&ModuleID=402&ArticleID=93 http://www.ai.edu/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=93&PortalID=0&TabID=69 http://www.ai.edu/AboutUs/PressReleases/tabid/69/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/93/Resources-on-Stem-Cell-Research.aspx Aquinas Institute hosted about 350 people June 29 for a conversation on stem cell research. Find out more about the event and the speaker, review an outline of the presentation (784kb PDF) or study additional resources: Web Sites President’s Council on Bioethics The National Institutes of Health Genetics, Science and the Church: A Synopsis of Church Teaching on Science and Genetics (PDF document); Catholic Health Association Articles Cahill, Lisa Sowle. “Stem Cells: A Bioethical Balancing Act.” America (March 26, 2001) 14- 19. Callahan, Daniel. “Promises, Promises: Is Embryonic Stem-Cell Research Sound Public Policy?” Commonweal 132: 1 (2005): 12 – 15. Callahan, Sidney. “Zygotes and Blastocysts: Human Enough to Protect?” Commonweal 129: 12 (2002): 7 – 8. Cohen, Cynthia B. “Stem Cell Research in the U.S. After the President’s Speech of August 2001.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 14:1 (2004) 97-114. Fischbach, Gerald D., Fischbach, Ruth L. “Stem Cells: Science, Policy and Ethics.” The Journal of Clinical Investigation Vol. 114 (10) November 2004: 1364-1370. Garvey, John. “The Stem-Cell Sell.” Commonweal 128: 14 (2001) 5 – 2. Walters, LeRoy. “Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: An Intercultural Perspective.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 14:1 (2004) 3-38. Books Snow, Nancy E. ed. Stem Cell Research: New Frontiers in Science and Ethics. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. CM Support Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:03:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:93 http://www.ai.edu/AboutUs/PressReleases/tabid/69/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/94/Author-on-Medical-Ethics-Will-Address-Stem-Cell-Research.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.ai.edu/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=69&ModuleID=402&ArticleID=94 http://www.ai.edu/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=94&PortalID=0&TabID=69 http://www.ai.edu/AboutUs/PressReleases/tabid/69/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/94/Author-on-Medical-Ethics-Will-Address-Stem-Cell-Research.aspx The emerging possibility of therapies based on stem cell research has been accompanied by questions from Christians about the moral and ethical implications of the research. Aquinas Institute of Theology, a graduate school on the campus of Saint Louis University, will host a presentation on stem cell research Wednesday, June 29, to answer some of those questions. “Stem Cell Research: The Tip of the Ethical Iceberg,” will begin with lunch at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Cardinal Rigali Center, 20 Archbishop May Drive in Shrewsbury. Sr. Jean deBlois, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and a nationally recognized health care ethicist, will speak at about 11:45 a.m. She’ll begin taking questions about 12:30 p.m. The event has generated such interest that the room is at capacity and the school has closed registrations. Standing room remains open to the media. DeBlois worked as a nurse while she studied theology. She was a supervisor in a cardiac intensive care unit before she became a student and ultimately teacher in medical ethics. She earned a Ph.D. in moral theology and medical ethics from Catholic University of America. Today, she directs a master’s degree program at Aquinas Institute for executives in Catholic health care from around the country. She also serves as a sponsor liaison for Ascension Health, the nation’s largest Catholic and largest non-profit health care system in the United States. DeBlois is author of A Primer for Health Care Ethics: Essays for a Pluralistic Society. The event is the final in the 2004-2005 Roundtable series sponsored by Aquinas Institute. The series offers Catholics opportunities to delve deeper into matters of Church and theology as a means of using the tradition to resolve contemporary questions. CM Support Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:13:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:94 http://www.ai.edu/AboutUs/PressReleases/tabid/69/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/95/Web-Site-Offers-Journal-Forum-to-Catholic-Health-Care-Providers.aspx#Comments 0 http://www.ai.edu/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=69&ModuleID=402&ArticleID=95 http://www.ai.edu/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=95&PortalID=0&TabID=69 http://www.ai.edu/AboutUs/PressReleases/tabid/69/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/95/Web-Site-Offers-Journal-Forum-to-Catholic-Health-Care-Providers.aspx A St. Louis physician and Aquinas Institute of Theology have launched a Web site for leaders in faith-based health care. The site, Salus & Sofia , is a wisdom community in mission. Salus & Sofia, which is Latin for “health” and Greek for “wisdom,” offers a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal, Radical Imaging. In the first issue, articles explore health care as a ministry, models of identity and mission, and the social, moral and cultural landscape of Catholic health care. Visitors to the Web site can sign up to receive email notices of future issues of Radical Imaging. The Web site also offers password-protected online discussions about topics such as professional and spiritual formation, community outreach and advocacy, ideas for collaboration and health care mission resources. Aquinas Institute, a graduate school on the campus of Saint Louis University, sponsors the site. The school was among the first schools in the United States to offer a graduate degree to Catholic health care executives as a means of sustaining the philosophies and practices central to the care begun by religious orders decades ago. Fred Rottnek, M.D., created the site with assistance from faculty and staff at Aquinas Institute. Rottnek is medical director for corrections medicine in the St. Louis County Department of Health and a family physician with the Institute for Research & Education. Rottnek also was in the first graduating class in the Master of Arts in Health Care Mission program and is the newly named assistant director. “Fred has created something unprecedented with this Web site,” said Fr. Charles Bouchard, O.P., president of Aquinas Institute. “It provides an opportunity to build a national, even global, wisdom community – a community that can strengthen the mission of Catholic health care.” CM Support Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:44:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:95