Center for Bioethics / Past Multimedia Recordings
Past Multimedia Recordings
Below is a list of past lectures in the Center for Bioethics Colloquium Series lectures.
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November 6, 2009
Public Health and National Security
The Honorable Tom Ridge
Former Governor of Pennsylvania and Secretary of Homeland Security
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September 24, 2009
The Emerging Challenge of Bio-Policy
Nigel M. De S. Cameron, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
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May 14, 2009
Bioethics today: What's old but unresolved, what's new?
Ruth Macklin, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioethics, Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
April 13, 2009
Why do patients volunteer for risky research studies? Rethinking informed consent, again.
Scott Kim, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Bioethics Program Center, Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine
University of Michigan
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March 3, 2009
Bronstein Lecture
My brother's keeper: Fundamental Jewish underpinnings affecting research on humans.
Rabbi Elliot Dorff
Professor and Rector,
Jewish Theology
American Jewish University
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February 5, 2009
Against infanticide: Pediatric ethics and the Groningen protocol
Eric Kodish, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Bioethics
Cleveland Clinic
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January 21, 2009
From lab to village: Life science and the developing world.
Peter Singer, M.D.
Senior Scientist and Professor of Medicine
McLaughline-Rotman Centre for Global Health
University Health Network
University of Toronto
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December 1, 2008
The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political: A Philosopher/Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Adult Sends Notes from the Battlefield
Eva Kittay, Ph.D.
Professor,
Department of Philosophy
SUNY at Stony Brook
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November 12, 2008
The woman in the pregnant body: Image and metaphor in obstetrics
Elizabeth Armstrong, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Sociology and Public Affairs
Princeton University
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October 20, 2008
Bioethics and politics
Yuval Levin, Ph.D.
Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC
Former Associate Director, Domestic Policy Council at the White House
May 15, 2008
Intimate Assistance: Re-Thinking Abortion in Law and Morality
Maggie Little, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Georgetown University
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April 15, 2008
The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken Problem
Paul B. Thompson, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food, & Community Ethics
Michigan State University
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March 17, 2008
Clinical Judgment and the Ethics of Medicine
Kathryn Montgomery, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics and of Medicine
Director, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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February 13, 2008
Obsession: Can a Disease Have a Biography?
Lennard J. Davis, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of English,
Disability & Human Development, and Medical Education
Director, Project Biocultures
University of Illinois at Chicago
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January 17, 2008
Ethics and the science of animal minds
Colin Allen, Ph.D.
Professor, History and Philosophy of Science
Indiana University
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November 28, 2007
Ethics and evidence-based disaster medicine
Griffin Trotter, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Center for Health Care Ethics
Saint Louis University
October 11, 2007
FDA and the drug approval process: Can this ship be righted?
Arnold I. Friede
Arnie Friede is a widely respected food and drug law counselor and advocate with significant advertising law, health care law, First Amendment, environmental, and commercial and transactional experience. He has a long history of direct involvement in representing clients in FDA-regulated matters beginning as an Associate Chief Counsel in the FDA Chief Counsel's Office in the late 1970's. Mr. Friede has a broad spectrum of senior in-house legal experience across multiple FDA-regulated industries, and currently serves as a senior counsel for a major pharmaceutical company.
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September 18, 2007
Stem cell research: Are we ready for clinical trials?
David Magnus, Ph.D.
Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
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May 10, 2007
Reflections on the future of bioethics
Ruth Faden, Ph.D.
Professor, Biomedical Ethics
Johns Hopkins University
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March 6, 2007
Human experiments and national security
Jonathan Moreno, Ph.D.
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Michael Gross, Ph.D.
Department of International Relations
University of Haifa
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February 27, 2007
First world health care at third world prices: Bioethics, globalization, and the emergence of medical tourism
Leigh Turner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Ethics
McGill University
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December 12, 2006
How the success and failure of prenatal care changed the way we think about pregnancy
John Lantos, M.D.
Director, Center for Clinical Ethics
University of Chicago
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November 21, 2006
Pharmaceutical testing and evidence making: An ethnography of the globalized clinical trial
Adriana Petryna, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
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October 24, 2006
Drop that candy bar: Ethics and the conversion of diabetes to an 'epidemic' in New York City
Glenn McGee, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Medical Ethics
Albany Medical College
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September 25, 2006
Terri Schiavo: Anomaly or harbinger?
Timothy Quill, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
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