Events
What is Medicine For? A Framework for Medical Ethics
A lecture by Prof. Christopher Tollefsen (University of South Carolina)
When:
October 7, 2026 | 1:00 PM CDT
Chapter:
University of Houston
Location:
TBA
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Christopher Tollefsen is Professor of Philosophy and McCausland Chair of Civic Engagement at the University of South Carolina, where he serves as the Executive Director of the Center for American Civic Leadership and Public Discourse. He has published over 125 articles in journals and edited collections, and a similar number of popular essays in venues such as Public Discourse, First Things, and National Review. He is the author of Lying and Christian Ethics and Killing and Christian Ethics, both with Cambridge University Press, and is co-author of The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession (with Dr. Farr Curlin) and Embryo: A Defense of Human Life (with Robert P. George). In 2019-20, he served as a Commissioner on the State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights.