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Ethics and Philosophy Lecture
In June 1990, the Board of Regents of the College approved a proposal and financial support from John Conley, MD, FACS, of New York, NY, for an annual lecture on ethics and philosophy in surgery The first lecture was delivered at the 1991 Clinical Congress in Chicago.
The purpose of the lecture is to provide an opportunity for Fellows of the College to consider the ethical dilemmas facing physicians and surgeons today. Doctor Conley asked that the lecturer approach the essence of medicine: its character, style, discipline, and philosophy. Doctor Conley passed away at the age of 87 on September 21, 1999.
| Year |
Lecturer |
Title |
| 1991 |
Leon R. Kass
Washington, DC |
I Will Give No Deadly Drug: Why Doctors Must Not Kill |
| 1992 |
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
Houston, TX |
National Health Care Policy: The Moral Issues |
| 1993 |
LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr.
Washington, DC |
Medical Ethics in Today's Society |
| 1994 |
Kenneth J. Ryan
Boston, MA |
Ethics and the Transplant Surgeon |
| 1995 |
James F. Childress
Charlottesville, VA |
The Gift of Life: Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation |
| 1996 |
Edmund D. Pellegrino
Washington, DC |
Medical Ethics in the Third Millennium: The Crisis of Integrity |
| 1997 |
Jay Katz
New Haven, CT |
Reflections on Informed Consent 40 Years After Its Birth |
| 1998 |
Richard J. Neuhaus
New York, NY |
The Idea of Moral Progress (287K PDF) |
| 1999 |
C. Rollins Hanlon
Chicago, IL |
The Ethics of Entrepreneurial Medicine |
| 2000 |
Albert R. Jonsen, PhD
Seattle, WA |
The Challenge to Professionalism |
| 2001 |
Thomas J. Krizek, MD, FACS
Wesley Chapel, FL |
Surgery: An Impairing Profession? |
| 2002 |
Roger S. Foster, MD, FACS
Shelburne, VT |
Conflicts of Interest: Recognition, Disclosure, and Management |
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For further information please contact Ajit K. Sachdeva, MD, FACS at asachdeva@facs.org.
Revised March 25, 2003
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