The Center for Christian Bioethics will celebrate its 30th anniversary with two lectures by Victoria Sweet, MD, PhD, on April 26.
Sweet—an associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco—is a medical historian and author of "God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine."
Her first lecture, "History of Medicine: On Hildegard of Bingen," will draw on her doctoral research and her second, "Reflections on God's Hotel," will draw on her experiences practicing medicine at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center.
Admission is free to both lectures, which will be held in the Centennial Complex Damazo Amphitheater. The first begins at 11:30 a.m., and the second at 3:30 p.m.
For more information, e-mail bioethics@llu.edu.
The Center for Christian Bioethics opened its doors in January of 1984 and serves to enhance teaching, research, and service in biomedical ethics and related fields at Loma Linda University Health.
The center’s programs include its Bioethics Grand Rounds held throughout the academic year. It also hosts roundtable discussions and the “Conversations with Authors” interview series.
The center also boasts the Carolyn and Ralph Thompson Library, whose growing collection includes more than 20 journals and nearly 5,000 books. The center’s publications have included the “Update” newsletter and three books, and it has participated in the publication of three others. The latest book is a compilation of the presentations for the 2006 Jack W. Provonsha Lecture Series titled “Physician-Assisted Suicide.”