2008 Woodie Awards
Health ethicist
Scholar to visit Feb. 25-29
Jessica Bernhardt
Issue date: 2/20/08 Section: Collegian Front Page
James Lindemann Nelson, a Woodrow Wilson Scholar and health ethicist, will be visiting campus Feb. 25-29.
"There's a really important ethics guy coming. It's important
to you and your life. It will not matter to you unless you show up," said Andy Sheppard, academic dean.
Nelson specializes in end of life issues and organ transplants.
His visit is especially important to a student in Mike Harper's contemporary moral issues class. Harper, assistant professor of philosophy, said the student's mother had a transplant
about 15 years ago and the organ is now failing.
Nelson will discuss the ethics
behind receiving a second transplant. The class presentation
will be at 10:40 on Oct. 26 in Mossman 102. Students who are not enrolled in the course are encouraged to attend.
Nelson will be spending time on campus as well as in the community. He will be visiting
Cumbernauld Village and speaking with the staff and residents.
He will also visit Kansas Health Ethics Inc. in Wichita.
Sheppard said Dick Merriman,
president, applied for the opportunity to have a Woodrow Wilson Scholar visit campus. "We won and are eligible to have one," said Sheppard. Nelson
is the first Woodrow Wilson Scholar to visit campus.
Nelson will also have a presentation
Tuesday night which is open to the public. It will be at 7:30 p.m. in Mossman 101. He will be discussing end of life issues. Most students may not feel this is important to them. But it will be some day. Harper said, "It may not impact them [students] now but somewhere in their life it probably will and they will wish they would've come."
If students make the time to sit in on the presentation it will have some sort of impact on them.
Sheppard said, "We're really excited he's coming. Things have an impact on you if you make the time for them. Keep in mind we're getting older every day. Make time to meet with him. Catch him if you can. It's not everyday you get to meet an award-winning ethicist."
Jessica Bernhardt is a junior majoring in journalism. You may e-mail her at jessica.bernhardt@sckans.edu.
"There's a really important ethics guy coming. It's important
to you and your life. It will not matter to you unless you show up," said Andy Sheppard, academic dean.
Nelson specializes in end of life issues and organ transplants.
His visit is especially important to a student in Mike Harper's contemporary moral issues class. Harper, assistant professor of philosophy, said the student's mother had a transplant
about 15 years ago and the organ is now failing.
Nelson will discuss the ethics
behind receiving a second transplant. The class presentation
will be at 10:40 on Oct. 26 in Mossman 102. Students who are not enrolled in the course are encouraged to attend.
Nelson will be spending time on campus as well as in the community. He will be visiting
Cumbernauld Village and speaking with the staff and residents.
He will also visit Kansas Health Ethics Inc. in Wichita.
Sheppard said Dick Merriman,
president, applied for the opportunity to have a Woodrow Wilson Scholar visit campus. "We won and are eligible to have one," said Sheppard. Nelson
is the first Woodrow Wilson Scholar to visit campus.
Nelson will also have a presentation
Tuesday night which is open to the public. It will be at 7:30 p.m. in Mossman 101. He will be discussing end of life issues. Most students may not feel this is important to them. But it will be some day. Harper said, "It may not impact them [students] now but somewhere in their life it probably will and they will wish they would've come."
If students make the time to sit in on the presentation it will have some sort of impact on them.
Sheppard said, "We're really excited he's coming. Things have an impact on you if you make the time for them. Keep in mind we're getting older every day. Make time to meet with him. Catch him if you can. It's not everyday you get to meet an award-winning ethicist."
Jessica Bernhardt is a junior majoring in journalism. You may e-mail her at jessica.bernhardt@sckans.edu.
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