The
keynote speaker of the symposium will be H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.,
Engelhardt
holds an MD with honors from Tulane University School of Medicine and a
PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed his
undergraduate work. In 1969 he was a Fulbright Graduate Fellow at Bonn
University, and in 1988 he was Fellow at the Institute for Advanced
Study in Berlin, Germany. Currently, Dr. Engelhardt is Professor in the
Department of Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College
of Medicine. In addition, he is Professor in the Department of
Philosophy, Rice University and Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of
Religion, Houston, Texas. Dr. Engelhardt has recently written
Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality. He
is editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, co-editor of
Christian Bioethics, and co-editor of the Philosophy and Medicine
book series with over forty volumes in print. He is also co-editor of
the book series Clinical Medical Ethics and editor of the series
Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. His The Foundations
of Bioethics was first published in 1986, and was one of the early
sustained theoretical representations of the burgeoning field of
bioethics. The second edition has just been published. Engelhardt has
authored over two hundred articles and chapters in books, in addition
to numerous book reviews and other publications.