EVENTS - XV International Conference "Health Care and Society"

 

XV International Conference
"Health Care and Society"

Technological Challenges and Humanisation of Medicine

16 - 17 - 18 November 2000
The Vatican City, New Synod Hall

 Thursday 16 November

 

9,00 Introduction
Most Rev. Javier Lozano Barragán
President of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care
(Holy See)
9,15 Greeting
His Eminence Fiorenzo Cardinal Angelini

Emeritus President of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care
(Holy See)
9.30 The Theological Perspective: Medicine Today in the Light of the Word of God
His Eminence Dario Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos

Prefect of the Congregation fo the Clergy, Holy See
10.15 Break
10.45

Moderator: Professor Daniel Serrão
Professor of Medical Ethics in the Faculty of Medicine,
University of Porto (Portugal)
II. A Contrasting Reality:

1. The Frontiers of Technology
Prof. Alfons Hofstetter

Scientific Director of the Urological Treatment Center of Monaco
Head of the Urology Department at the University of Monaco (Germany)
2. The New Places of Care: the Home, Hospitals, the Local Area
Professor Joannes Petrus M. Lelkens

Professor of Physiology at the Marriage and Family Institute in Rolduc
(The Netherlands)
3. The New Health Care Workers
Dr. Orwil Adams
Director of the Health System at the World Health Organisation, Geneva (Switzerland)

4. The New Sick

Professor Bernard Serrou
Professor of Medecine at the University of Montpellier (France)
Head of the Service Anti-Cancer at Montpellier Hospital
5. New Emerging Illnesses
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Washington, D.C. (USA)

13.15 Break
16,00 Moderator: Dr. Mary Healey-Sedutto, Ph.D.
Director of Health and Hospitals, Archdiocese of New York (USA)

Dialogue
16.45 THE ILLUMINATION OF THIS REALITY:
Medicine during Periods of Cultural Change
(Ancient Times - the Middle Ages - the Modern Era - Today, the Future)
Professor Diego Gracia Guillén
Professor of the History ofd Medicine at the Complutense University,
Madrid (Spain)
17.30 Break
18.00 A New Theological Approach (Theology and Medicine)
Rev. Angelo Brusco, M.I.
Member of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care (Holy See)
Superior General of the Ministers of the Sick (Camillians), Italy
18.45 End of the Session

 

 Friday 17 November

9.00 Moderator: His Eminence Francis Cardinal Arinze
President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (Holy See)
Contemporary Questions of Moral Theology
Most Rev. Willem J. Eijk
Bishop of Groningen (The Netherlands)
9.45 Light in Inter-Religious Dialogue:
Judaism H.E. Yosef Neville Lamdan
Ambassador of Israel to the Holy See
Islam P. Maurice Borrmans
Professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies, Rome
10.20 Break
10.50 Hinduism Prof. Elena De Rossi Filibeck
Professor of Thibethology at the University
"La Sapienza", Rome
Buddhism H.E. Ronarong Nopakun
Ambassador of Thailand to the Holy See
11,30 Dialogue
13,00 End of the Session
16.00

Moderator: Br. Pierluigi Marchesi, O.H.
Member of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care
Coordinator of the Centre for Study and Formation, Province of
Lombardy-Veneto of St John of God Brothers (Italy)
Action to be Taken: Pastoral Care in Medicine Today
Rev. Mario Bizzotto, M.I.

Professor of Pastoral Theology at the International Institute
"Camillianum", Rome

what should be done in the following areas:

16.45 Hospitals in the Year 2000: Ancient Charity and Modern Technology
Rev. Michael T. Place
President and Chief Executive Officer of CHA (Catholic Health
Association) USA
17.15 Break
17.45 The New Frontiers
Rev. Dr. Anthony Fisher, O.P.
Episcopal Vicar for Health Care in the Archdiocese of Melbourne
(Australia)
18.15 The Training of Health Care Professionals
Prof. José Kuthy Porter
Director of the Institute of Humanism in Science of Health,
Anahuac, Mèxico
18.45 End of the Session

 

 Saturday 18 November

 

9.00 Moderator: Mrs. Lillian Fanjul Azqueta,
Director of the New Hope Foundation, Palm Beach (USA)
The Training of Voluntary Workers
Dr. James Orbinski
International President of "Medici senza Frontiere" (Belgium)
9.30 The Training of Chaplains
Rev. Rudesindo Delgado
National Ecclesiastical Assistant of PROSAC (Spain)
10.00 Dialogue
10.45 Break
11.00 Conclusions

 

Information


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