Information about entertainment options while in London can be found here, and the form for reserving tickets to these activities can be found here. Both are pdfs.
Readings and case studies for the conference are currently available online. The site is password protected; please contact us at ndethics@nd.edu to obtain access.
Any questions regarding registration, transportation or accommodations should be directed to Judy Gibson (gibson.1@nd.edu or 574.631.5112) at the Alumni Continuing Education office.
Program Fee
This year's conference fee is $1500, and it includes lecture notes, meals,
and refreshments during the conference.
Location
This program will be held at the University of Notre Dame's London facilities
in the heart of the city near Trafalgar Square.
Continuing Medical Education Credits
In past years, Saint Joseph's Regional Medical Center designates this
continuing medical education program for up to 14 credit hours in Category
1 of the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.
We anticipate that this year's conference will be designated for a few
more credits than in the past, because the program is slightly extended
from past years. The fact that the conference will be in London will not
interfere with the granting of CME credits. We will have a sign-in sheet
at the conference to be sure that physicians who attend will receive credit,
and each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she
actually spent in the educational activity.
Anthony Travel is arranging a zone fare with unblocked
seats, meaning you will be booked from your hometown, and the fare is
set based on where you are coming from (i.e., east coast, Midwest , etc.)
The rates vary, but none are more than $550, plus taxes and fees, roundtrip
for coach class. The rates are significantly higher for business class,
with the lowest at about $3500 and the highest around $5500. With this
fare plan, there is an event "window" meaning the travel dates could start
2-3 days before and end 2-3 days after the actual conference should the
passengers want to travel elsewhere before or after the meeting. Once
the reservation is made, the ticket must be issued within 14 days. Once
the ticket is issued, but before the trip begins or during the trip, there
is a fee of $150.00 to make any changes. The name on a ticket may be changed
for $75.00 after the original ticket has been issued. If you were to cancel
outright within 21 days of travel, there is a $300.00 loss.
Our contact at Anthony Travel is Kris Felton . Kris has worked with us
on many projects and she is a genius at arranging overseas trips. Just
contact her, and she will be happy to answer your questions and make all
the arrangements for you.
Kris Felton
Anthony Travel
LaFortune Student Center
P.O. Box 1086
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel: (574) 284-4759
(800) 366-3772
Fax: (574) 284-4837
We are making reservations at two hotels, the Thistle
Charing Cross and the Imperial
Hotel. The cost for the Charing Cross is £75 per person / £150
per couple for a double, £145 for a single. (£1 us approximately
$1.75.) The Imperial, which is a 25-minute walk or 15-minute cab/bus ride
to the conference site, is a less expensive, at £67 for a double
and £51 for a single. Both hotels provide a complimentary English
breakfast. We have arranged for dinners for the participants (and spouses)
all together at the Charing Cross on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings.
A catered lunch will also be provided on Friday and Saturday at the conference
facilities. All participants' meals during the conference are covered
by the registration fee, with spouses paying for whichever meals they
would like to attend; participants are responsible for their meals and
expenses for the rest of the week.
Both hotels offer clean and comfortable accommodations with private baths
and restaurants, bars and lounges on the premises. The Thistle Charing
Cross is right on Trafalgar Square and adjacent to the Charing Cross Tube
station. The Imperial is in the heart of Bloomsbury about two blocks from
the British Museum and five from the new British Library. It is also.
Like the Thistle, within easy walking distance of Covent Garden and Oxford
Street shopping.
For those who would like more luxurious accommodations, there is no shortage of world-class four- and five-star hotels within easy walking distance of the Notre Dame Centre, such as the Ritz and the Savoy , among others. We would be happy to assist you in making reservations at any of these hotels if you wish to stay there.
| Friday, 3/4/05 | Fly out from hometowns |
| Saturday, 3/5/05 | Arrive in London |
| Sunday - Thursday afternoon, 3/6-3/10 | Sight-seeing and enjoying London* |
| Thursday evening - Saturday, 3/10-3/12 | Medical Ethics Conference |
| Sunday, 3/13/05 | Depart from London |
*Participants and their spouses are of course free to make their own plans,
but for those who are interested, we are organizing group tours around
the city and day trips to such places as Oxford, Canterbury, and Stonehenge/Salisbury
Cathedral. We are also making arrangements through ND London to get discounted
theater tickets each night for interested participants and their guests.
Please contact us if you have any ideas for interesting excursions, shows,
etc.
Thursday, March 10
6 p.m. banquet at the Thistle Charing Cross Hotel
8 p.m. J. Philip Clarke Family Lecture at Notre Dame London Centre
"Medical Ethics in Contemporary Culture: European and North American
Perspectives"-John Haldane, University of St. Andrews
Friday, March 11
9:30 am-12 pm Conference Session: Justice and Efficiency in Providing
Health Care: American and European Perspectives**
12-2 pm Lunch at Notre Dame London Centre
2-4:30 pm Conference session: The Prospect of State-Sponsored Infanticide:
Treating Seriously Ill Infants**
7 pm Banquet at the Thistle Charing Cross Hotel
Saturday, March 12
10:00 am - 12:30 pm Conference Session: The Challenge of the Suffering
Patient: How Should Medicine Respond?**
12:30-2:30 pm Lunch at Notre Dame London Centre
2:30-5:00 pm Feeding Tubes and Assisted Suicide**
7 pm Banquet at the Thistle Charing Cross Hotel
**Each of the 2.5 hour sessions consists of a 45-minute plenary presentation, followed by an hour of small-group discussion, then another 45-minute plenary session for discussion of the small groups' conclusions.
Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes,
Director of European Programs, International Studies in Philosophy
and Medicine
Dr. Delkeskamp-Hayes has served as director of European
Programs for International Studies in Philosophy and Medicine since 1977.
She has published numerous articles on moral philosophy and medical ethics
for both American and European journals, and she serves as associate editor
of Christian Bioethics: A Non-Ecumenical Journal in Medical Morality.
H. Tristram Engelhardt, MD,
PhD
Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Rice University
Jorge Garcia
Professor of Philosophy, Boston College
Luke Gormally
Senior Research Fellow, Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics in London
Prof. Gormally is Senior Research Fellow of the Linacre Centre
for Healthcare Ethics in London, Research Professor of the Ave Maria School
of Law, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Visiting Professor of Bioethics and Christian
Anthropology in the John Paul II Institute for Marriage & Family in
Melbourne, Australia. He was Director of the Linacre Centre from 1981
to 2000. Since 1990 he has written several books and more than fifty articles.
He has edited important volumes such as "Dependent Elderly: Autonomy,
Justice and Quality of Care" (1992), "Euthanasia, Clinical Practice and
the Law" (1994), "Moral Truth and Moral Tradition" (1994) and "Healthcare
Allocation: An Ethical Framework for Public Policy" (2001). From 1983
to 2000 he was ex officio member of the Catholic Bishops' Joint Bioethics
Committee and member of its Standing Committee. From 1985 to 2000 he was
also a member of the Ethics Committee of the Hospital of St John and St
Elizabeth. Luke married Mary Catherine Geach in 1985, and they have two
children, Rebecca and Thomas.
John Haldane
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre
for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St.
Andrews
Kevin McDonnell
Edna and George McMahon Professor of Philosophy, St. Mary's College
Professor McDonnell teaches courses in ethics and ancient and
medieval philosophy, but his special love is biomedical ethics. He is
co-author of two textbooks, Tough Decisions: A Casebook in Medical
Ethics, (currently going into its second edition) and A Health
Law Reader, and has authored many articles and papers in the field.
He serves on various ethics and human rights committees in the South Bend
medical community and is frequently called upon to give presentations
to health care professionals and medical students. Professor McDonnell
was the first recipient of the Edna and George McMahon Chair in Philosophy,
and he directs a yearly symposium on Aquinas thought and its relevance
to contemporary culture. Professor McDonnell is a Visiting Fellow at the
Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture for the 2004-2005 academic year.
John
Robinson, PhD, JD
University of Notre Dame Law School
Maura Ryan, PhD
Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, University of Notre Dame
Prof. Ryan's primary interests are in the areas of bioethics
and health policy, feminist ethics, and fundamental moral theology. She
co-edited a book on global stewardship with Todd David Whitmore and recently
completed a book on reproductive technologies to be published by Georgetown
Press. Her articles have appeared in the Hastings Center Report,
The Journal of Philosophy and Medicine, and Ethics and Behavior.
She is on the Board of Directors for the Society of Christian Ethics and
the editorial board of the Religious Studies Review and Ethics and Behavior.
She serves on the St. Joseph County Healthcare Advisory Consortium and
the ethics committee for Hospice of St. Joseph County. Currently she is
working on the challenge of assisted suicide for feminist ethics.
Kurt Schmidt
Fellow of the Center for Medical Ethics, Markus-Hospital, Frankfurt,
Germany
Dr. Schmidt is a Fellow of the Center for Medical Ethics, Markus-Hospital,
Frankfurt, Germany. The Center is the first institute of its kind in Germany
to be located within a confessional (Protestant) hospital, yet without
being subordinate to hospital management--financed instead by the Protestant
church of Hesse. Besides its main focus on ethical consultation for hospital
employees and the execution of in-house seminars, the Center enjoys a
close cooperation with the Protestant Academy Arnoldshain, where conferences
and seminars can be held on bioethical issues outside the hospital boundaries
and open to the interested public.
W. David Solomon
W.P. and H.B. White Director, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and
Culture; Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Helen Watt
Director, Linacre
Centre for Healthcare Ethics
Dr. Helen Watt is Director of the Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics
in London , the only Catholic center for bioethics in the UK and Ireland
. She is the author of Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics: A Short
Introduction (Routledge, 2000).
Paul
Weithman
Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Program: David Solomon, Ph.D.
W. P. & H.B. White Director
Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture
University of Notre Dame
1047 Flanner Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-9656
General Questions: Judy D. Gibson
Associate Director Alumni Continuing Education
University of Notre Dame
100 Eck Center Notre Dame, IN 46556-5661
(574) 631-5112
Kathleen M. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Director Alumni Continuing Education
University of Notre Dame
100 Eck Center Notre Dame, IN 46556-5661
(574) 631-8693
Travel: Kris Felton
Anthony Travel
LaFortune Student Center
P.O. Box 1086
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel: (574) 631-7080
(800) 366-3772
Fax: (574) 631-8504
