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May Life-Sustaining Treatment be Withheld or Withdrawn?: Discerning Ordinary vs. Extraordinary Means

University of Alabama at Birmingham

The Thomistic Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham presents a lecture by Prof. Gina Noia of Belmont Abbey College titled “May Life-Sustaining Treatment be Withheld or Withdrawn?: Discerning Ordinary vs. Extraordinary Means.”

Friday, December 2

6:00 PM

Heritage Hall 121

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Gina Maria Noia is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Resident Bioethicist at Belmont Abbey College. She received her Ph.D. in Theology and Health Care Ethics from Saint Louis University. She has served as a clinical ethicist for OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL and St. Alexius Hospital in St. Louis, MO, and she is published in Christian Bioethics and the Journal of Moral Theology. She and her husband, Justin, love spending time with their vivacious one-year-old boy.

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