As the personal, social and economic costs of current approaches to healthcare rise, causing distress to patients and healthcare professionals, this webinar brings together experts and concerned individuals from the health service, the churches, and public life to explore what a Catholic vision of the human person in society offers as an alternative in terms...
This online workshop, in collaboration with the Thomas More Centre for International Relations at CEU Fernando III, will cover a wide range of topics from disinformation to Gaza. Richard Finn O.P. and Carlos Espaliú will co-chair. All are welcome, registration is required. Speakers and Topics Carlos Espaliú, CEU Fernando III: 'Saint George and the new dragon: the fight...
Clarins Shieryl, Blackfriars Hall, and Ignatius Bambang Sugiharto, Parahyangan, will speak at this online seminar about the charity work they have carried out recently. All are welcome, registration required.
Social justice has often been improved and worsened by new technology, which always creates winners and losers. What does the rapidly advancing field of bio-technology mean for social justice as a whole around the world? Who will it help, and who will struggle for access to its benefits? And how might it change the nature...
How can we better promote healthy living and ageing inspired by a Catholic approach to health, healthcare, and social life? This conference seeks to answer this vital question by discussing good examples from current practice. Convened by Sr Margaret Atkins and Rev Dr Richard Finn O.P., the conference will be held on the 8th of November from...
This webinar, in collaboration with the Thomas More Centre for International Relations at CEU Fernando III, will be chaired by Dr Hugo Slim and Professor Carlos Espaliú. All are welcome, registration is required. Speakers Carlos Espaliú, CEU Fernando III. Claes Granmar, Stockholm. Sonia Boulos, Nebrija. Felix MartÃn Moreno, Lancaster. Carlos Fernández Liesa, Carlos III de...
The economics of health care is often criticised as only focussing on efficiency and budget cuts (these are not the same, of course). This has never been true, and health economists have also focussed on equity. In this online webinar, co-chaired by Dr Edward David (Kings College London) and Dr Joseph Kwon (University of Oxford), Professor Stephen...
A Thomistic case for the rule of rescue as a normative principle in healthcare allocation decision-making The rule of rescue (RR) describes the tendency in healthcare to prioritise treatment for identified patients facing severe immediate need over prevention benefiting unidentified/statistical lives. It is criticised by health economists for preventing cost-effective healthcare allocation. Accordingly, the National...
This seminar brings together emerging scholars of historical ecologies, placing them in conversation to reflect on the relationship humanity has and had with the natural world. By tracing how human–environment relations have been imagined, governed, and lived in the past, the seminar foregrounds nature not as a distant backdrop but as a proximate and entangled neighbour. Responding...
'A true ecological approach always becomes a social approach ... so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor' — Laudato Si', 49 Our Director at the Las Casas Institute, Hugo Slim, will be giving the keynote at the Annual Trócaire Lecture at St Patrick's College, Maynooth. Seán Farrell the...