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Stephen Lammers, Helen H.P. Manson Professor of the English Bible, will speak on “Were They Weapons of Mass Disappearance or Weapons of Mass Information? A Political-Moral Analysis of the Reasons Given for the War in Iraq” noon today in Interfaith Chapel, Hogg Hall.
Lunch may be brought or purchased for $3. The talk is sponsored by the Chaplain’s Office.
Lammers specializes in issues of war and peace as well as medical ethics. Recipient of four awards for teaching or scholarship, he is coeditor of On Moral Medicine, an award-winning book in medical ethics, and Theological Voices in Medical Ethics. He serves as ethics consultant for Lehigh Valley Hospital Center, working with residents and medical students, and is a member of the hospital’s Institutional Review Board and Ethics Committee.
He has conducted research on Just War theory with Marquis Scholar Sarah Bassin ’04 (Overland Park, Kan.), a religion and history major (see related story).
This summer, he mentored EXCEL Scholar Jessica Merkel-Keller ’04 (Bridgewater, N.J.) in a study of the success rates of hospital-performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation, patient and family perceptions of CPR, and physician training in CPR (see related story). He is now supervising her honors thesis on whether attitudes about medical mistakes differ between the older and younger generations of doctors.
Lammers’ teaching areas at Lafayette include contemporary religious issues, religion and modern society, religion and medicine, religious ethics, health and illness in technological societies, religion and political life, value issues in business and the professions, and social and ethical issues in biotechnology and genetic engineering. He earned his Ph.D. at Brown University.