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Our Mission

The mission of the Center is to advance and disseminate knowledge concerning ethical issues in health care and the life sciences. The Center carries out this mission by conducting original interdisciplinary research, offering educational programs and courses, fostering public discussion and debate through community outreach activities, and assisting in the formulation of public policy.

2008 Center Seminars

May 9

"Bioethics and Organized Medicine: Current Issues at the Minnesota Medical Association Ethics Committee"

Presented by: Edward Ratner, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, University of Minnesota.

This seminar is being held on Friday, May 9, 12:15 to 1:30 pm, Mayo 3-100, University of Minnesota campus. Seminars are no charge and open to the public.

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EthicShare

New database for ethics scholars.

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL — The University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics in partnership with the University of Minnesota Libraries and the Department of Computer Science has been awarded a $517,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to pilot "EthicShare," an online website and database for ethics scholars and students to discover and share high quality digital articles and other materials–scholarly and popular press articles, multimedia objects, pre-prints, and archival documents.

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Development of an Ethical Framework for Influenza Pandemic

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has extended its contract with the Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics (MCHCE) and the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics on the "Development of an Ethical Framework for Influenza Pandemic" project. Both Centers were contracted by MDH to assist with preparing to address critical ethical issues that are likely to arise during a severe influenza pandemic and to produce a set of ethical procedures for allocating medications, vaccines, protective equipment, and other health care and medical items that may be in short supply in a pandemic.

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