In the Spotlight
The Center for Bioethics is home to a new project: The Project on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity
Autumn Fiester, PhD and Lance Wahlert, MA, MSc
Given that there are many pressing ethical issues that lie at the intersections of LGBTQI politics and bioethics (such as equal access to healthcare, recognition of non-heterosexual patient surrogates, exclusion of LGBT persons from certain clinical trials, and stereotyping, to name a few), the Project on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity aims to create an inter-disciplinary dialogue (on-line, in print, and in-conference) to define this new field and to map-out its bioethical centrality, its implications, and its possibilities. The Project on Bioethics, Sexuality and Gender Identity seeks to spotlight the LGBTQI-invested work that has already been created in bioethics and to encourage the production of further scholarly work in this new field. Forthcoming features of this project include: a separate website that provides archival, bibliographical, and contemporary research on the field; a published anthology of canonical and original scholarship in the field; and a culminating conference on bioethics, sexuality, and gender identity. Read more....
New Employment Opportunities at the Center for Bioethics!
News & Announcements
- September 21, 2010
CONFERENCE:
The Science, Ethics and Politics of Vaccine Mandates
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
9:00 am - 4:45 pm
- August 25, 2010
Are You Ever Too Old to Have a Baby? The Ethical Challenges of Older Women Using Infertility Services
(From the Seminars in Reproductive Medicine Journal) Oocyte donation, new drugs, the technique of single intracytoplasmic sperm injection, and in vitro fertilization (IVF) afford older women the opportunity to give birth well beyond the natural limit imposed by menopause, and more and more women are taking advantage of this opportunity. Read more... - August 25, 2010
Katrina patient deaths still a mystery
(From CNN) Families seek justice after relatives mysteriously die at a New Orleans hospital.
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Art Caplan reports that in reading the record, I think that they (doctors) assisted the death, involuntarily, of these patients. Watch the video... - Visit news archive.
