Events

UNC Center for Bioethics and Hospital Ethics Committee Join us for a one-day workshop on fundamental principles and practice in ethic consultations, covering four thematic elements: Considering the consult request Choosing a course of action Reflecting on our approaches Building capacity Registration is limited due to conference size. Please email Brandy at brandyelsenrath@unc.edu if you … Read more

Joint Lecture Series Presented by: Center for Bioethics & Parr Center for Ethics Tom Murray, PhD, President Emeritus,the Hastings Center, will reflect on how well the arguments made in his 1996 book, The Worth of a Child, about parental choices in the face of medical predictions about their offspring hold up today in the context … Read more

Lisa Harris, MD, PhD Dr. Harris’ research examines issues at the intersection of clinical obstetrical and gynecological care and law, policy, politics, ethics, history, and sociology. She conducts interdisciplinary, mixed methods research on many issues along the reproductive justice continuum, including abortion, miscarriage, contraception, in vitro fertilization (IVF), infertility and birth, and racial, ethnic, and … Read more

Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and Its Sensational Patient Cases from Haskell Karp to Dick Cheney Shelley McKellar, PhD, Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Today artificial hearts are a clinical reality after decades of contentious development. Former U.S. Vice President Dick … Read more

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds John C. Moskop, Ph.D. Wallace and Mona Wu Chair in Biomedical Ethics, Professor of Internal Medicine, and Chair of the WFBMC Clinical Ethics Committee This presentation will situate conflicts about end-of-life care within the broader context of the evolution of end-of-life care over the fifty-year history of American bioethics. The presentation … Read more