Dominican University hosts lecture on health services in the U.S.

Dominican University’s Albertus Magnus Society will present a lecture titled “Unequal Distribution of Health Services in the U.S. and Across the Globe” by Aana Marie Vigen, PhD. The lecture will be held Thursday, March 24 at 7:00 p.m. in the Priory Campus Auditorium, 7200 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Vigen believes the most important ethical questions regarding biomedical research and treatment are issues of accessibility rather than legitimacy. She will discuss how economic factors, ethnicity and gender influence the provision of health services and how the movement toward health reform in the U.S. can respond to issues of inequality. 

Vigen is an associate professor of Christian social ethics at Loyola University Chicago. She is a member of the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE), the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and the American Association of Bioethics and the Humanities (ASBH). Vigen is also an active lay member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and is currently serving on the national ELCA Genetics Taskforce. She earned her doctorate in social and theological ethics from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Admission to the lecture is free. For more information on Dominican University’s Albertus Magnus Society, please call (708) 714-9105 or visit the website at http://www.dom.edu/ams.

Established in 2006 by the Siena Center of Dominican University, the Albertus Magnus Society pursues new information and insight in a setting that is both scholarly and congenial, and reflects the Dominican understanding of the compatibility of religion and science. The society was named for Albertus Magnus, patron saint of scientists, and thirteenth century Dominican famed for scientific discoveries and a theology reflective of the emerging science of his day. For more information on the Albertus Magnus Society, please call (708) 714-9105 or visit the website at http://www.dom.edu/ams.