biomedical ethics & the contemporary church
East Asia School of Theology
1 Dorset Rd Singapore 219486
3rd-Quarter 2009/10 Class
Dates: 18, 19, 25, 26 June
Fridays:
2.00 to 6.00 PM;
Saturdays:
9.00 AM to 4.00 PM
Synopsis of course
Advances in medical treatment modalities, biotechnological innovations, and geneticmolecular manipulations have brought about unique challenges to the church today. In this class, a pastoral-theological approach will be used to examine, reflect and develop responses to difficult moral and ethical issues such as test tube and designer babies, facts and fallacies of stem cell therapies, cloning, abortion, mercy-killing, living will, gene therapy, and aesthetic surgery.
Lecturer
DR TANG is a senior consultant pediatrician in Johor Bahru and adjunct teaching faculty of Monash University School of Medicine in Malaysia. His interest in neonatology, respiratory medicine and biomedical ethics has led him to speak widely in churches and seminaries on issues this class will cover. Dr Tang is the author of Random Musings From a Doctor's Chair, A Good Day to Die: A Christian perspective on mercy killing, Live and Let Live: A Christian perspective on biotechnology, and Spiritual Formation on the Run. An avid community service worker, he started the Rotary Club of Tebrau Heart Fund to sponsor children with congenital heart diseases for corrective surgery in India, and developed the Calvary Autistic Centre project
for Autistic children in Johor Bahru.
Register at www.east.edu.sg or call Ms Wong at tel: 62919744 ex 202 for enquiries.
East Asia School of Theology 1 Dorset Rd Singapore 219486
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Best wishes and prayers. That the course will be a blessing to many!
ReplyDeleteThanks Paul, I do pray that this course will be helpful to us Christians as we see to engage with the world.
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