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Ramsey Gives Bampton Lectures at ColumbiaDr. Paul M. Ramsey, Paine Professor of Religion, is delivering the 22nd series of Bampton Lectures in America at Columbia University.Under the general title “Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine,” the series of four lectures began on Nov. 11. The concluding lectures will be given at 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 18 and 19 in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus. The individual lectures are “The Countinuing Story of Fetal Research Ethics” and “The Benign Neglect of Defective Infants.” Both are free and open to the public. The first lectures on Nov. 11 and 12 covered “ ‘Euthanasia’ and Dying Well Enough” and “Abortion After the Law.”Ramsey, a leading Protestant theologian specializing in Christian ethics and social theory, has been a member of the Princeton faculty since 1944.The Bampton Lectures were established at Columbia in 1948 by a bequest of Ada Byron Bampton Tremaine who stipulated that the subjects of the lectures be concerned with theology, science, art or hygiene, and that at least every four years the lectures be theological. Previous Bampton lecturers included Arnold Toynbee, Paul Tillich, Fred Hoyle and Jacob Bronowski.
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Princeton University Weekly Bulletin
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Mon, Dec 08, 1975
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