Faculty Seminar
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar Series
2012-2013
September 21 – “Choices at the End of Life”
Margaret P. Battin, MFA, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, University of Utah.
October 19 – “Taming Expert Recommendations: The Case of Psychiatry”
Allen J. Frances, MD, Professor Emeritus and Former Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Duke Medical Center; and Former Chair, DSM-IV Task Force.
November 16 – “Returning Individual Results and Incidental Findings to Participants in Genetic Research”
Susan M. Wolf, JD, McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy; Faegre Baker Daniels Professor of Law and Professor of Law & Medicine, University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School.
December 14 – “Care in Old Age – Is There Too Much?”
Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, Clinical Professor of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine.
January 18 – “International Research – The Standard of Care”
Dan Wikler, PhD, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Department of Global Health and Population, HSPH.
*March 29* – “Institutional Corruption”
Lawrence Lessig, JD, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School, and Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University.
May 17 – “Bioethics Past – What Mattered” AND
“Bioethics Future – What Will Matter”
Arnold S. Relman, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine, HMS, and former Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, and
Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD, President, The Hastings Center; Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Ethics, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS; and Associate Clinical Professor of Anaesthesia, Children’s Hospital Boston.