Public Health and Public Good

PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE PUBLIC GOOD IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA

A TWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM
presented by
THE WILSON CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
in
CRAWLEY FORUM,
at
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE, VIRGINIA



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2005

4:00 p.m.:
Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Walter M. Bortz III
President
Hampden-Sydney College

Neither Beast nor God:
Remaining Human in an Age of Limitless Desire

Dr. Gilbert Meilaender
Richard & Phyllis Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics
Valparaiso University
The President's Council on Bioethics

Response:
Dr. Ronald M. Green
Director, Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics
Eunice & Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values
Dartmouth University

Moderator: Dr. Walter M. Bortz III
President
Hampden-Sydney College


7:30 p.m.:
Bioethics and Human Betterment:
Have We Lost our Ability to Dream?

Dr. Ronald M. Green
Director, Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics
Eunice & Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values
Dartmouth College

Response:
Dr. Gilbert Meilaender
Richard & Phyllis Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics
Valparaiso University
The President's Council on Bioethics

Moderator: Dr. Alexander J. Werth
Elliott Associate Professor of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College



THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2005

4:00 p.m.:
Scarce Resources and Limitless Preferences:
The Economic Dimensions of Health Care Policy

Dr. Heather Boushey
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Washington, D.C.

Dr. Robert W. Israel
Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine
Mobile, AL

Moderator: Dr. Saranna R. Thornton
Elliott Associate Professor of Economics
Hampden-Sydney College

7:30 p.m.:
Public Health and the Common Good:
In Search of a Rational Health Care Paradigm

Dr. Leigh Turner
Biomedical Ethics Unit
Department of Social Studies of Medicine
McGill University

Dr. James E. Burns
Deputy Commissioner for Public Health Programs
    and Chief Information Officer
Virginia Department of Health

Moderator: Dr. Michael J. Dougherty
McGavacks of Loudoun Associate Professor of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College


The Wilson Center gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Hampden-Sydney College
Lectures and Programs Committee in the funding of this symposium.

Links of Interest

Background statement for this symposium

Reading list for this symposium

Human Genome Project Symposium - February 2001

Other Wilson Center Symposia

Wilson Center Events Calendar