For any (ethical) discussion to be worthwhile, participants actively share both their experiences with the past and their visions of the future. The first year of bioethics discussions begins at the foundations of the medical enterprise (doctors, patients, responsibilities), broadens widely (to families‘ and communities‘ roles in health), and surveys the biomedical landscape (from before birth to after death). In so doing, basic principles of ethical consideration are established by a community (of [possible!] practitioners): how ought individuals dispute ideas with one another?; when judging an act what parameters are pertinent?; what is the point of (bio)medicine? Seeking to strike a balance between evergreen ethical dilemmas, the latest in biomedical technology, and important social issues, the topics of the discussions have us peer into the mists of (bio)medicine’s history and to its future horizons. As roundtable discussions, (hopefully) all involved are at ease and all voices equal. To start, consider where you have been and where you wish to go. Such is the philosophy guiding this series of discussions.
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First, do no harm. A discussion concerning the basis of care. September 12, 2017, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
The Hippocratic oath The nocebo effect of informed consent The doctor-patient relationship in different cultures |
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Organ and body donations. A discussion on the give and take of our very selves. September 26, 2017, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
The survival lottery The case for allowing kidney sales Organ donation and retrieval: whose body is it anyway? |
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Human experimentation. A discussion testing the limits of testing ourselves. October 10, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
The Belmont report The patient and the public good Scientific research is a moral duty We’re trying to help out ticket people, not exploit them |
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Big data, little privacy. A discussion on the shape of things to come. October 24, 2017, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
Ethical issues in big data health research Confidentiality in medicine: a decrepit concept On telling patients the truth |
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Universal healthcare. A discussion on the (inevitable?) end of medicine. November 7, 2017, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
Bubbles under the wallpaper Uncertainty and welfare economics of medical care Barack Obama’s speech to Joint Session of Congress, September 2009 |
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Family in medicine. A discussion on love, blood, and responsibility. November 21, 2017, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
The abnormal child Life past reason Treatment decisions regarding infants, children and adolescents |
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Death. A discussion on our ends. December 5, 2017, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
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Abortion. A discussion “going there” respectfully. January 9, 2018, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
Abortion and health care ethics Abortion and infanticide A defense of abortion |
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Assisted reproduction. A discussion for the bravest in the new world. January 23, 2018, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
The ethics of uterus transplantation Assisted reproduction in same sex couples Multiple gestation and damaged babies |
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Prenatal screening. A discussion on early look and tough decisions. February 6, 2018, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion Genetics and reproductive risk Sex selection and preimplantation genetic diagnosis |
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Genetic manipulation. A discussion on changing our codes. February 20, 2018, 7PM, 2185 LBME
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Questions about some uses of genetic engineering The moral significance of the therapy-enhancement distinction in human genetics Should we undertake genetic research on intelligence? |
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LGBTQ health. A discussion including inclusion and finding ourselves. March 6, 2018, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
Growing pains: problems with puberty suppression in treating gender dysphoria The duty to warn and clinical ethics: legal and ethical aspects of confidentiality and HIV/AIDS Obergefell v. Hodges decision |
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Vaccination. A discussion on public health and individual choice. March 20, 2018, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children The moral case for the routing vaccination of children in developed and developing counties Ethics and infectious disease |
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Regulation. A discussion about the maze and the pathway. April 3, 2018, 7PM, 2185 LBME
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Thalidomide retrospective: what did we learn? Improving medical device regulation: the United States and Europe in perspective Ethics, regulation, and comparative effectiveness research |
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Posthumanity. A discussion on our end. April 17, 2018, 7PM, 2185 LBME |
In defense of posthuman dignity Stem cells, biotechnology, and human rights: implications for a posthuman future A cyborg manifesto |
