M. Therese Lysaught (Courtesy photo)
Hawaii Catholic Herald
Chaminade University of Honolulu next month will host the next installment in its Marianist Lecture Series, featuring a presentation by a professor known for her work in the fields of bioethics, ethics, medicine and theology.
Therese Lysaught is a tenured professor at Loyola University Chicago, teaching in the Stritch School of Medicine’s Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Care Leadership as well as the university’s Institute of Pastoral Studies. Her lecture, titled “Catholic Bioethics: Catholic Social Tradition and Human Flourishing,” will be held Oct. 13 at 4 p.m. in the Mystical Rose Oratory at Chaminade University.
According to a Chaminade news release, Lysaught’s wide range of expertise has resulted in publications that explore topics as broad as investigations in the areas of Catholic moral theology and theological ethics, and as specific as human embryonic stem-cell research, gene therapy, end-of-life matters, global health and social justice.
In an interview, Lysaught said Catholic bioethics, like most U.S. health care, is “illness-focused (and) the purview of a few specialists.”
This approach, she said, ignores the “powerful moral questions raised by the ways our broader social context undermines health and augments illness, especially for the poor and those on the margins of society.”
Lysaught said her talk will focus on how Catholic social tradition “can help expand how we think about the moral dimensions of illness, health and medicine and their ethical implications,” and to help people see that addressing these moral issues should be a task for everyone.
For more information on the Marianist Lecture and to register, go to chaminade.edu/marianist-lecture.