Ethics Expert Named to Lectureship

Oct. 6, 2009 — Calvin College Philosophy professor Ruth Groenhout has been named the Calvin Worldview Lecturer for 2009-2010. Throughout the school year, she will visit universities in North America and Europe to speak about care and justice in medicine.

The annual Calvin Worldview Lectureship, co-sponsored by Christian Reformed Home Missions and Calvin College, is a lecture series that seeks to communicate a Reformed Christian perspective on academics and culture. A Calvin College faculty member is selected as the lecturer each year, receiving a one-course reduction in teaching duties in return for giving public lectures and seminars at six universities in North America and up to three in Europe.

Groenhout has spent 16 years researching medical ethics, and has published many journal articles and books on topics such as health care ethics, public health research, theological considerations in nursing practice, and sin and sickness in the Reformed tradition. She recently completed a term as President of the Medical Ethics Research Network of Michigan, and she currently serves on the Biomedical Ethics committee at Spectrum Health. She has lectured on health care issues at venues in the United States, China, Australia, Croatia, and Brazil.

Her recent book, Bioethics: A Reformed Look at Life and Death Choices (Faith Alive, 2009), takes a biblical approach to issues such as abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, and genetic manipulation.

As Calvin Worldview Lecturer, she will speak on three topics: "Care, Justice, and Medicine"; "Medical Dilemmas: Care and Technology"; and "Christians, Technology, and Health Care."

Once her lectures are completed, Groenhout will develop her lecture materials into a book.

For more information, visit http://www.calvin.edu/admin/provost/scholars/lectureship/2009-2010/

—Christian Reformed Home Missions Communications

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