Selected Jack W. Provonsha Lectures

The annual Jack W. Provonsha Lecture honors Dr. Jack Provonsha, founder of the Center for Christian Bioethics. Find below a listing of selected lectures given at Loma Linda University by distinguished scholars over the past thirty years with links to transcripts and/or video-recordings.”

 

Date Presenter Title Links
March 1, 2024 Benjamin R. Doolittle, MD, MDiv The Priest, the Philosopher, the Scientist, and the New Age of Medicine Youtube video available
March 1, 2024 Yi Shen Ma, PhD Symposium - Beyond Treatment: Community Health Workers and the Philosophy of Accompaniment Youtube video available
March 1, 2024 Gina R. Gang, PT, EdD, DPT, MSPT Symposium - Doctor of Physicial Therapy Student Perspectives Shaping Professional Identity Formation Youtube video available
March 1, 2024 Caleb M. Isaac, PhD Symposium - The "Physician-Patient Impact" Model: Leveraging "Emotive Impact Discourses of Positivity and Mutuality" to Shape Patient Perceptions Youtube video available
October 8, 2022 Mark Fox, MD, PhD Entertaining Angels Unawares An Articulation of the Distinctive Virtues of Community Medicine Youtube video available
March 6, 2020 Nancy Berlinger, PhD After harm: truth-telling, apology, repair, and forgiveness in healthcare Youtube video available
March 1, 2019 Robert Macauley, MD Devout Requests for Maximal Treatment: Sanctity of (Earthly) Life, or Crisis of Faith? Youtube video available
March 2, 2018 Farr Curlin, MD What Does Medicine Have to Do with the Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ? Youtube video available
March 3, 2017 Gina Mohr, MD The Ethical Imperative of Palliative Care vimeo video available
February 16, 2006 S. Cromwell Crawford, PhD Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Hindu Perspective pdf availableYoutube video available
February 28, 2005 James F. Childress, PhD Just Care: Rationing in a Public Health Crisis pdf availableyoutube video available
March 9, 1998 Margaret E. Mohrmann, MD, PhD The Practice of the Ministry of Medicine pdf available
March 4, 1996 H. Tristam Engelhardt, MD, PhD Religious Considerations: Sacred and Secular youtube video available
March 5, 1994 Gerald R. Winslow, PhD Minding Our Language: Metaphors and Biomedical Ethics pdf available
February 6, 1993 David Schiedermayer, MD  Wages Through The Ages: The Ethics of Physician Income  pdf available
February 22, 1992 Robert D. Orr, MD  Personal and Professional Integrity in Clinical Medicine  pdf available
February 24, 1990 H. E. Clifford, MD, FRCS, FRACS Strategies for Moral Decision-Making: Confessions of a Moral Underling pdf available
February 15, 1989 Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD Character, Virtue and Self-Interest in the Ethics of the Professions  pdf available