Richard C. Eyer Papers

Papers in Secular Settings

• Is the Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association Ethical?
• Christian Ethical Decision-Making in a Post-Modern Age, Columbia Hospital (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: October 26, 1993)
• When Depression Means God Is Silent..., Faith Support Series, Columbia Hospital (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: January 28, 1988)
• Coping with Baby Doe Conference, Statement (August 10-11, 1988) - Reactor Panel with C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
• Medicine and Religion - Our Roots as Chaplains (May 25, 1983)
• Physician and Clergy: Compatible Roles, Wisconsin Congregationalist Ministers Association (May 17, 1983)

Papers in LCMS Settings

• Concordia Seminary Class Presentation by Rick Marrs (March 22, 2010)
• Five Skills of Christian Care Giving, Workshop for LFL (Saint Louis: November 11-12, 2005)
• ALEA Conference (Shanghai, China: October 27, 2006)
• Bioethics and the Culture of Death - Law and Gospel in End-of-Life Decision Making, SWD Spring Pastoral Conference (Madison, Wisconsin: April 8, 2002)
• Ethical Relativism and Truth, The Concordia Conference (Concordia University, Wisconsin)
• Commission Statement Representing the LCMS On Sanctity of Life (June 25, 1996)
• Ethical Decision-making at The End of Life, Think Tank (Saint Louis, Missouri: November 13, 1991)

Suffering and Pastoral Care

• God in Suffering, Wyoming (2004)
• God in the Midst of Suffering, Iowa East Pastoral Conference (2003)
• Abstract - Teaching A Course in Bioethics at a Lutheran University Using Biblical Narrative (Minneapolis, Minnesota: May 19-20, 2000)
• Christ's Comfort to Us, Deaconess Retreat (April 22, 1999)
• Law and Gospel in End-Of-Life Decision Making, South Dakota Lutherans For Life Convention (November 14, 1998)

Euthanasia

• Euthanasia, Midwest Bioethics Center Panel, 1990
• Euthanasia and the Theology of the Cross, Northern Illinois District Pastoral Conference, LCMS (May 9, 1990)
• Lutherans For Life, Nebraska (February 15, 1992)
• Euthanasia, Lutherans For Life National Convention (Fargo, North Dakota: 1989)
• Euthanasia, Spring Pastoral Conference of the South Wisconsin District - LCMS (April 18-19, 1989)
• Letting Die or Aiming to Kill?, Lutheran Conference (March 29, 1988)

Abortion

• Abortion and the Theology of the Cross, Pilgrim Lutheran Church (West Bend, Wisconsin). Dedication: Memorial to Aborted

Genetics

• The New Genetics: Babel or Blessing?

Presentations to Physicians

• Managing the Final Moments: The Spiritual Issues, 22nd Annual Winter Refresher Course for Family Physicians (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: January 29-31, 1992)
• A Child Among Children: Attitudes Toward Children in the Bible, Pediatrics Society (Kohler, Wisconsin: May 1988)
• How Clergy Have Changed, Doctor / Clergy Breakfast (October 7, 1987)
• Daring to Pray, Columbia Hospital Doctor / Clergy Breakfast (July 3, 1985)
• History of the Relationship Between Medicine and Religion, Medical History Club (November 6, 1984)
• Religious Limitations to Medical Care, Doctor / Clergy Breakfast (July 7, 1982: published in Medical Journal of Wisconsin, March 1983)
• Ethics and Expectations, Doctor / Clergy Breakfast (April 7, 1982: published, revision Christian Medical Society Journal, Fall 1984)
• The Role of Religion in Health Care, Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Preventive Medicine (December 13, 1982)
• The Role of Narcissism in Illness: Its Psychological and Spiritual Dimensions, Grand Rounds: Columbia Hospital (September 7, 1982)
• The Needs of the Dying, The James E. Fitzgerald Obstetrical and Gynecological Travel Club Meeting, Grace Hospital (March 26, 1976)