Early Modern Economies of Care: Practices of Giving and Receiving Care in the 16th and 17th Century
2023-10-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Bondurant Hall G030
Early Modern Economies of Care: Practices of Giving and Receiving Care in the 16th and 17th Century
Mandy Fowler, Doctoral student in English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill

Tuesday, October 3, 2023
12:00 PM ET
Hybrid lecture

“Early Modern Economies of Care” explores practices of giving and receiving care as they existed in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. In this presentation, Mandy will share insights from their research as the 2022-2023 McLendon-Thomas Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill. As a Rare Books Fellow, Mandy used a variety of materials in the Wilson Library Rare Books Collection, including medical guides for physicians and household caregivers, familial letters and legal documents, and other printed or manuscript texts to better understand the complexities of caregiving from the perspectives of both the givers and receivers of care. Mandy’s research pays particular attention to the ways in which intellectual and religious movements of the period influenced early modern approaches to care.

Mandy is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC, where they study early modern literature with an emphasis in the history of medicine, materiality, and domestic culture.

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In Vitro Neural Platforms
2023-10-02 08:00 - 16:00
Monday, October 2, 2023
8:00 am – 4:00 pm EST
Location: Friday Conference Center

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This is an in-person event; Please visit https://tinyurl.com/28eop7ry to register.
As the use of in vitro neural platforms like brain organoids and microtissues increases, there is a lack of general knowledge about the limitations of the platforms. Bioethicists and scientists may also have concerns about the implications of the use of these systems in clinical and nonclinical research.

Health Humanities Grand Rounds presents: Dr. Will Bynum (Duke University)
2023-09-28 15:30 - 16:45

Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment and Criminal Justice
2023-09-27 12:00 - 13:00
The Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics and Mental Health

Wednesday, September 27, 2023
12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
Location: Registration Required

Dr. Gregg Caruso

Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics, and Mental Health
Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for registration information. These events are free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds - Save the Date
2023-03-16 08:00 - 09:00 | Old Clinic 4th Floor Auditorium
Annual Pediatrics Visiting Scholar
Holly Gooding, MD, MSc
Old Clinic Auditorium (Room 4008) Hybrid
Jointly sponsored by the UNC Center for Bioethics and the UNC Hospital Ethics Committee, Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds offers an innovative and interactive forum for engaging with ethical, legal, and policy issues of particular salience to patient care within the hospital. There are no commercial support or conflicts of interest to report.

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds-Save the Date
2023-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Bondurant Hall, G100
Parr – Bioethics Lecturer
Elizabeth Barnes, PhD
G-100 Bondurant Hall (Hybrid)
Jointly sponsored by the UNC Center for Bioethics and the UNC Hospital Ethics Committee, Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds offers an innovative and interactive forum for engaging with ethical, legal, and policy issues of particular salience to patient care within the hospital. There are no commercial support or conflicts of interest to report.

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds
2023-03-02 17:00 - 18:00 | Parr Center
Parr – Bioethics Joint Lecturer
Elizabeth Barnes, PhD
Jointly sponsored by the UNC Center for Bioethics and the UNC Hospital Ethics Committee, Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds offers an innovative and interactive forum for engaging with ethical, legal, and policy issues of particular salience to patient care within the hospital. There are no commercial support or conflicts of interest to report.

Beyond the Medical: Genetic Testing for Social Traits
2023-01-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Virtual Webinar
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Li3T_5AdQ3alvj5J6EsBLg
In traditional predictive genetic testing, single gene variants are analyzed to determine whether individuals are at high risk of developing disease. The vast majority of diseases, however, are polygenic – caused by many different genes. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) hold promise to predict risk for complex diseases like heart disease or diabetes by measuring the contribution of hundreds of genetic variants at once. Yet beyond prediction of medical outcomes, the realm of ‘sociogenomics’ is developing polygenic scores (PGS) measuring genetic contributions to social traits and behavioral factors, such as income, educational attainment, sexuality, and optimism. This presentation will present initial findings of a newly-funded NIH grant to study these complex scores.

Anya Prince is an Associate Professor of Law and member of the University of Iowa Genetics Cluster. Her teaching and research interests explore the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic testing, with particular focus on genetic discrimination and privacy rights, the intersection of clinical and research ethics, and insurance coverage of genetic technologies and interventions.

Jean Cadigan is Associate Professor of Social Medicine and a core faculty member in the Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research interests focus broadly on clinical and research ethics. She primarily conducts empirical studies that focus on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic research and practice from the point of view of patients, research participants, clinicians, scientists, and policy makers.
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