Yale ethicist Margaret Farley to speak on responses to AIDS

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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Margaret A. Farley, Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics atYaleUniversity, will speak onGender, Faith, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Africaat4:30 p.m.Wednesday (Nov. 1) in theUniversityofNotre Dame Law School Courtroom.

Farley studies, teaches and writes about medical ethics, sexual ethics, social ethics, historical theological ethics, ethics and spirituality, and feminist ethics.She is the author or editor of six books, includingPersonal Commitments: Beginning, Keeping, ChangingandJust Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics.She has served on the Bioethics Committee ofYale-NewHavenHospitaland on the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.

A past president of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Catholic Theological Society of America, Farley has received 11 honorary degrees as well as the John Courtney Murray Award for Excellence in Theology.

* Contact: * Cathleen Kaveny, _Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at 574-631-6311, 574-631-7844 or kaveny.1@nd.edu
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