the paul ramsey. ramsey. >> institute. >> okay. you are the center for bioethics and culture and you also have paul ramsey institutes i understand it is an institute studying bioethics and named for for paul ramsey. tell me about l ramsey. >> i had a lot of his writings n graduate school. the late great paul ramsey of princeton. he hadden dowed position in the ets department. he really was on the the forefront of lifting at the shift from medical ethics to bi. we have this two year fellowshim where young men and women from around the world are applying for a coveted spot. we are only able to accept a few. one of our our first paul ramsey fellows wrote the very famous book "when "when breath becomes air." he was neurosurgeon at stanford whn diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. just to give you insight insight into the caliber of people. medical doctor gilbert e ander, amer professor of ethics. >> that's great. we'll take a final break and come back and tk more. >> hello. welcome back. jennifer, you mentioned paul kyleanthony. that

i think about paul ramsey. when the contributions we are able to make in this reader was that yes, and amen to the great fast of american christian realists. but also, a transatlantic perspective as well. people like white, that we just heard from. people like herbert butterfield. ennis bertinelli -- and extraordinary insensitive scholar and had views on nuclear weapons that might be closer to my canadian sensitivities. i will let you give me a hard time about that later. i was deeply entrenched in english school. and as others have argued, this tradition that has residents, also perhaps something they called the amsterdam school. people like abraham kuyper and hermann bob beck and others known as pastors and theologians but also were politically active, active in politics and policy. kuyper served as prime minister of the nuns and made foreign policy i would be remiss -- foreign policy. i would be remiss if i didn't mention i published a book with another joster, and there is a wonderful book for you to go and

reflecting this alternative framework physician researchers at saint paul ramsey medical center sought to collect data not only about victims physical and mental health but also their spiritual and religious beliefs the twin cities sons planning product for example was a coordinated effort by public health officials and members of the monk refugee community to improve understanding one of its central questions was does anxiety from cultural uprooting and change and beliefs play a role in these deaths. it's case questionnaire, which you can see here revealed how physician researchers and health officials were engaging in among spiritual beliefs under religious and social life. the questionnaire asked did the subject go to church. what kind did the subject believe what he heard in church. did he retain ancestor worship? what were views about it? at the same time that mong americans and their allies were seeking more culturally informed approaches to sons. there were also pushing for accommodations for traditional among healing practices. individual healthcare providers sometimes made spe