Tuesday, November 9, 2021
11am – 12pm
Via Zoom; log-in information to follow
“Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality”*
Charles C. Camosy, PhD, Professor, Author
Brief Overview: Since we’ve lost the theological concept that all human beings are made in the image and likeness of God in many places in the broader culture, but especially in the halls of power in medicine, we’ve lost the basis for fundamental human equality. In this lecture, theologian and bioethicist Charles Camosy explores the terrible history of abandoning this principle, names our current moment, and suggests that human beings with dementia will be the next population to fall if we stay on the current course.
Charles Camosy grew up in the cornfields of Wisconsin, but he is now an Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University in the Bronx, where he has taught since finishing his PhD in theology at Notre Dame in 2008. Among other places, his published articles have appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Journal of the Catholic Health Association, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News and America magazine. He has a monthly “Purple Catholicism” column with Religion News Service and is the author of six books. Too Expensive to Treat? (Eerdmans) was a 2011 award-winner with the Catholic Media Association; Peter Singer and Christian Ethics (Cambridge) was named a 2012 “best book” with ABC Religion and Ethics; For Love of Animals (Franciscan) was featured in the New York Times; Beyond the Abortion Wars (Eerdmans), was a 2015 award-winner also with the Catholic Media Association; Resisting Throwaway Culture (New City) was named 2020 “Resource of the Year” by the Catholic Publishers Association. His most recent book, published in July 2021 (New City), is Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality. He is also the founding editor of a new book series with New City Press called The Magenta Project. In addition to advising the Faith Outreach office of the Humane Society of the United States, the pro-life commission of the Archdiocese of New York, and Holy Name Medical Center, Camosy received the Robert Bryne award from the Fordham Respect Life Club and received the 2018 St. Jerome Award for scholarly excellence from the Catholic Library Association. He has four children, three of whom he and his wife Paulyn adopted from a Filipino orphanage in June of 2016.
To RSVP contact Christine Michne, at 631.288.7080 or cmichne@eeh.org.
The Jackie Peckoff Memorial Lecture Series is made possible by the generous support of Marianne Gelber, MSN, ACHPN in loving memory of her friend, Jackie.
*Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter and do not necessarily represent official policy or position of East End Hospice.