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Background
of the Lectureship
Thomas Antley Pitts, II, M.D. (1893-1991) served as a member
of the Board of the Medical University of South Carolina for thirty-six
years and served as its chairman for twenty-five of those years. He
left a substantial bequest to the Medical University of South to endow
"a series of lectures on medical ethics". The series has
become known as the Pitts Memorial Lectureship, and has been held
annually since 1993.
Pitts Faculty include:
Shahid Athar, M.D.
Dr. Athar is a past president of the Islamic Medical Association of North America and is the former Chair of Medical Ethics . He was co-founder and chairman of the Islamic Society of Greater Indianapolis and the Interfaith Alliance of Indiana. He is the author of over 120 journal articles and of 7 books, including Islamic Perspectives in Medicine and Healing the Wounds of September 11, 2001: Reflections of an American Muslim.
S. Cromwell Crawford, Ph.D.
Professor Crawford is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Religions at the University of Hawaii. He is author of many books and research papers and often speaks at Jain conventions. Dr. Crawford has done pioneering research in the relation between bioethics and Hinduism; among his recent books are Dilemmas of Life and Death, Hindu Ethics in a North American Context, and Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-first Century.
Russell Kirkland, Ph.D.
Professor Kirkland is Professor of Religion / Asian Studies / Medieval Studies / Native American Studies / Environmental Ethics at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Taoism: The Enduring Tradition, and numerous other studies of the history and religions of China, Tibet, Korea, and Japan. He currently serves on the Executive Board of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions, the Steering Committee of the American Academy of Religion's Chinese Religions Group, and the Board of Directors of the U.S. Taoist Association.
William LaFleur, Ph.D.
Professor William LaFleur is E. Dale Saunders Professor in Japanese Studies and Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1989, he became the first non-Japanese recipient of the Watsuji Tetsurô Culture Prize for scholarship. His research interests are in Buddhism and the literary arts in medieval Japan and comparative ethics, particularly with regard to the ways the religious and philosophical traditions of Japan impact Japanese attitudes regarding sexuality, abortion, medicine, and bioethics.
B. Andrew Lustig, Ph.D.
Professor Lustig holds the Holmes Rolston III Chair in Religion and Science in the Department of Religious Studies at Davidson College. Before accepting this position in 2005, he served as Director of Rice University’s Program on Biotechnology, Religion, and Ethics and Academic Director at the Institute of Religion in the Texas Medical Center. He has published eight books and 130 articles and book chapters on medical and public policy ethics, and writes the regular "Ethics Watch" column for Commonweal magazine. He is a founding co-editor of the journal Christian Bioethics and was the editor of the multi-volume Bioethics Yearbook Series.
Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D.
Professor Zoloth is Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities and of Religion at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. In 2001, she served as President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and currently is the Chair of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Bioethics Advisory Board. She is a member of many national advisory groups, including the Ethics Section of the American Academy of Religions. She serves on the editorial boards of The American Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Shofar: A Journal of Jewish Studies, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, and the American Journal of Bioethics
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