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About the Center
Major Projects
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Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial
Lectures, 2002 - 2005
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Sims
Lectures 2006-2008 |
Sims
Lectures 2009
The Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial Lectures are to create
discussion in one of two areas: issues in responsible
communication between patients, families, professional care
givers, and counselors; or issues in biomedical ethics.
Established in honor of Matthew Sims, who died in infancy,
the series is a collaboration between Matthew's family
and friends and the Poynter Center.
Thursday, March 3,
2005
"Bioethical Controversies About Human Dignity:
Cloning and Commerce in Organs."
James Childress
John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics, Department of
Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Dr. Childress examined contemporary conceptions of human
dignity and their implications for public policies toward
human cloning and commerce in transplantable organs.
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Professor Childress is co-author with Tom L. Beauchamp of
Principles of Biomedical Ethics, a classic in the
field of biomedical ethics and now in its fifth edition. He
also wrote Priorities in Biomedical Ethics, Who Should
Decide? Paternalism in Health Care and Practical
Reasoning in Bioethics. He received his B.A. from
Guilford College, his B.D. from Yale Divinity School, and his
M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.
The audiostream of the 2005 Lecture is available online at broadcast.iu.edu,
using RealPlayer 8 Basic (a free program).
Professor Childress pondered a question after dinner
at the Poynter Center.
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Professor Childress and Damon and Suzette Sims also had lunch
with a group of students from the Wells Scholars and Hutton
Honors College programs. After the lunch Damon Sims talked
about the difficult decisions the family had to make during
Matthew's brief life. He and Professor Childress fielded
questions from the students about ethical issues families
face when they have a loved one who has multiple
life-threatening conditions.
Damon Sims talks to students.
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LeRoy
Walters, 2004 Lecturer
"Five Policy Options for Human
Embryonic Stem Cell Research: An International
Perspective"
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Damon Sims, LeRoy Walters, Suzette
Sims, and Richard Miller. Damon and Suzette Sims are
Matthew's parents, Professor Walters gave the
2004 lecture, and Richard Miller is the director of
the Poynter Center.
LeRoy Walters, the Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy
Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, and a
Professor of philosophy at Georgetown, presented
the third Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial Lecture
on March 11, 2004. Professor Walters has been
engaged with the ethical and public-policy
questions surrounding recombinant DNA research
and human-gene-transfer research since
1976.
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Recent publications include The Ethics of
Human Gene Therapy, which he coauthored with
Julie Gage Palmer (Oxford University Press, 1997)
and Contemporary Issues in Bioethics.
The 6th edition of the anthology was coedited by
Tom L. Beauchamp and published by Wadsworth
Publishing Company, 2003.
The audiostream of the 2004 Lecture is available
online at
broadcast.iu.edu, using RealPlayer 8 Basic (a
free program).
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- Thomas Murray, 2003 Lecturer
"Parents, Children, and Cloning"
Thomas Murray, President of The Hastings Center,
presented the second Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial
Lecture on March 5, 2003. His lecture emphasized that the
primary aim must be the child's good, and that
mutuality is an appropriate framework for
decision-making.
Professor Murray is the author of more than 200
publication, including The Worth of a Child from
University of Californai Press and Healthcare Ethics
and Human Values: An Introductory Text with Readings and
Case Studies from Blackwell Publishers, which he
edited with Bill Fulford and Donna Dickenson.
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William F. May, 2002 Lecturer
"Medical Futility and Staying the
Course"
William F. May, Cary Maguire University Professor of
Ethics Emeritus at Southern Methodist University gave the
inaugural Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial Lecture.
William May and Damon Sims in Fall 2005, when Professor May visited IU. | 
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