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News Release
Margaret Somerville to speak
at
Tyndale University College & Seminary
TORONTO, February 20, 2008- Dr. Margaret Somerville, internationally
renowned expert on ethical aspects of science and social issues,
will be guest speaker at Tyndale University College & Seminary's
annual Honeyman Lecture series on Tuesday, March 4.
The morning forum will feature a conversation with Tyndale president
Brian Stiller and Dr. Somerville on the large issues we face in
Canada and world wide. The evening forum will be in the format of
Q&A. Students, faculty and guests will have opportunity to present
Dr. Somerville with questions that surface from her extensive writings,
her public advocacy and related ethical matters that arise from
living within intermingled cultures, ideologies and competing economic
and social movements.
The public is invited to the 7:30 evening forum in the Van Norman
Worship and Study Centre.
Founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and
Law, Somerville holds professorships in the Faculties of Law and
Medicine at McGill University. Over the years, she has been active
in the worldwide
development of bioethics and in the study of the wider legal and
ethical aspects of medicine and science. Publications include The
Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit and Death
Talk: the Case against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide.
She has edited Do We Care? Renewing Canada's Commitment to Health,
proceedings of the first Directions for Canadian Health Care conference;
and co-edited Transdisciplinarity: Recreating Integrated Knowledge.
Somerville earned a bachelor's degree in law from the University
of Sydney and the Doctorate in Civil Law from McGill University.
She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the first recipient
of the UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science. In 1989, she
was honoured with the Order of Australia in recognition of her international
contribution to law and bioethics. Ryerson and Windsor are among
the Canadian universities that have recognized Somerville's distinguished
career and conferred honourary doctoral degrees.
Founded in 1894, Tyndale is a trans-denominational university and
seminary located in north Toronto. Currently, there are over 1,200
students and more than 9,000 alumni. Tyndale offers a variety of
degree programs in a wide range of disciplines and accredited programs
at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The programs prepare
leaders for Canada and throughout the world. Visit the Tyndale website
at
www.tyndale.ca
for more information on the 2008 Honeyman Lecture series.
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Media Contact:
Jacqui Getfield, MSc
Director of Communication
Tyndale University College & Seminary
416-226-6620 ext. 2784 (tel)
416-226-6746 (fax)
www.tyndale.ca
Email:jgetfield@tyndale.ca
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