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Changing attitudes to science: health and medical practice within Seventh-day Adventism (1864-2015)

March 13, 2015, 7.30 PM-March 14, 2015, 4.45 PM

Health and wellness are the “right arm” of Seventh-day Adventism, but how has the church viewed the “science” of conventional medicine over its 150-year journey? 

Presented by the Discipline of Science and Mathematics.

Speaking: Dr David Trim, director, Archives, Statistics, and Research, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Also speaking: Associate Professor Paul Cameron, immunologist and immunopathologist, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne and Infectious Diseases Unit, Alfred Hospital; Brett Goods, general manager, Sydney Adventist Hospital; Dr John Skrzypaszek, director, Ellen G White Seventh-day Adventist Research Centre; and Professor Ray Roennfeldt, president, Dr Lynden Rogers, head of discipline (science), Dr Wendy Jackson, paediatrician and senior lecturer in theology, and Dr Gwen Wilkinson, registrar, Avondale College of Higher Education.

Program 

Program: Changing attitudes to science 

Passes 

$60 (single); $90 (double); Free (students—excludes meal and published proceedings). Includes lunch Saturday and published proceedings of conference (when published).

Purchase passes through the Avondale Online Store.


Details

Start:
March 13, 2015, 7.30 PM
End:
March 14, 2015, 4.45 PM
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Venue

Lecture Theatre 2
White Bldg, Cooranbong NSW 2265, Australia