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March 26
"The Ethics and Politics of Stem Cell Research"
Presented by: Carol Tauer, PhD
March 25
"Changing Paradigms in Research Ethics: What’s So Different About Predictive Health Studies?"
Presented by: Eric Meslin, PhD, Director, Center for Bioethics; Assistant Dean for Bioethics, School of Medicine; Professor of
Medicine, Medical & Molecular Genetics and Philosophy, Indiana University.
March 7
"Neither Common Nor Sense: Western Bioethics in Japan"
Presented by: Gregory Plotnikoff, MD, MTS, Faculty Associate, Center for Bioethics; Associate Professor, Clinical Medicine and
Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School; Medical Director, Abbott Northwestern Institute for Health and Healing.
March 6
"Oversight of Biomedical Technologies: What Can We Learn From Past Efforts?"
Presented by: Patricia King, JD, Georgetown University.
February 8
"Ethics and Public Health Emergencies: How Should We Prepare for Pandemic Flu?"
Presented by: Debra DeBruin, PhD, Director of Education and Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics;
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School
Recording
February 7
"The Legacy of the Nazi Doctors’ Trial for American Bioethics and International Human Rights Law"
Presented by: Professor George Annas, JD, MPH, Boston University
January 31
"Medical Complicity with Torture during the War on Terror"
Presented by: Steven Miles, MD, Professor, Center for Bioethics; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School.
January 11
"Placebo Prescribing and AMA Policy: Can Empirical Data Inform the Legal and Ethical Debates?"
Presented by: Jon Tilburt, MD, MPH
Recording
December 14
"Real World Applications of Research Ethics"
Presented by: Elizabeth
Seaquist, MD and Laure Campbell, MHL, RN
Recording
November 9
"Improving End of Life Care for Homeless Persons"
Presented by: John Song, MD, Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics; and Department of Medicine,
University of Minnesota Medical School
October 9
"Stem Cell Research: At the Intersection of Science, Politics, Law, and Culture"
Presented by: Zach W. Hall, PhD
Recording
September 21
"Bioethics and the Tragedy of the Commons"
Presented by: Steven Miles, MD, Professor, Center for Bioethics; and Department of
Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School
Recording
June 8
"From Durham to Delhi: "Medical Tourism" and the Global Economy"
Presented by: Leigh Turner, PhD; Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Biomedical Ethics Unit and Department of
Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University
June 6
"Beauty and the Beast? Elegance, Evidence, and the Practice of Bioethics"
Presented by: Ray DeVries, PhD, Bioethics Program, University of Michigan Medical School.
May 16
"Women and Contraception in Research"
Presented by: Toby Schonfeld, PhD, Health Promotion, Social and Behavorial Health Sciences Division, College of Public Health,
University of Nebraska Medical Center
March 9
"Addicted to Smoking: Brain Disease? Genetic Mishap? Social Failure?"
Barbara Koenig, PhD, Mayo College of Medicine
Recording
February 2
"Ethical Issues in Treating Complex Hematological Cancers in Children"
John Wagner, MD, University of Minnesota
Recording
January 12
"Oh the Water . . . Allegations of Euthanasia at Memorial Medical Center During Hurricane Katrina"
Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, Social Medicine and Medical Humanities; Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
Recording
December 7, 2006
"The First Face Transplant: Clinical, Ethical and Media Perspectives" Jean-Michel Dubernard, MD, PhD, Edouard
Herriot Hospital in Lyon, France
November 3, 2006
"Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medial Complicity and the War on Terror" by Steven Miles, MD, Center for Bioethics,
University of Minnesota.
Recording
October 13, 2006
"Conscription of Cadaveric Organs for Transplantation: At Least Let's Talk About It" by Aaron Spital, MD,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Recording
October 5, 2006
Bioethics in East Asia: Where Lee Silver Gets it Right...and Wrong William LaFleur, PhD, Asian and Eastern Studies,
University of Pennsylvania
October 4, 2006
"Surgically Shaping Children" by Erik Parens, PhD, The Hastings Center
April 21, 2006
Human Mistakes and Mishaps: Disability, Children, and Atavism During the Center of Progress
Amy Lara Hall, MDiv, PhD, Duke University Divinity School
2-122 Molecular & Cellular Biology Building (MCB)
Recording
March 24, 2006
Pharma Goes to the Laundry
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
2-122 Molecular & Cellular Biology Building (MCB)
Recording
February 10, 2006
Your Doctor Gets Paid for What! Ethical Issues in Pay-For-Performance Modes of Physician Reimbursement
David Satin, MD, University of Minnesota
Recording
January 13, 2006
How Clinical Trials Really Work: Rethinking Research Ethics
Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD, FAAN and Debra DeBruin, PhD; Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
2-120 Molecular & Cellular Biology Building (MCB)
Recording
December 9, 2005
Terri Schiavo: The Aftermath
Ronald Cranford, MD, Hennepin County Medical Center
2-122 Molecular & Cellular Biology Building (MCB)
Recording
November 3, 2005
Comparative Stem Cell Politics: The View from Down Under
Rachel Ankeny, PhD
University of Sydney, Australia
Recording
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Center for Bioethics faculty spoke at:
Osher Learning Institute (OLLI) University of Minnesota.
on Wednesday Room 235 McNamara Alumni Center
April 2
"End of Life – Terry Schiavo"
Presented by: Dianne Bartels, RN, MA, PhD
April 9
"Homelessness and Health"
Presented by: John Song, MD, MPH, MAT
April 16
"Ethical Challenges in Long Term Care for Older People in Nursing Homes and at Home"
Presented by: Rosalie Kane, PhD
April 23
"Ethics and Creating a Stem Cell Donor"
Presented by: Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH
"Stem Cell Research: At the Intersection of Science, Politics, Law, and Culture"
The archived page for the event is linked above
Presented by: Zach W. Hall, PhD, Founding President California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (2005-07)
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
Lecture and panel discussion
Coffman Theater, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus.
(open to the public)
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 (12:30 p.m.)
Department of Medicine
Grand Rounds
Geffen Auditorium, Mayo Clinic Rochester
(for Mayo faculty and staff)
Thursday, October 11, 2007 (7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.)
Stem Cell Research: A Public Forum
University of Minnesota Rochester
University Square, Room 417 (formerly Galleria)
(open to the public)
Thursday, December 7, 2006
"The First Face Transplant - Medical, Ethical and Media Perspectives,"
Jean-Michel Dubernard, MD, PhD
July 6th & 19th, 2006
The Body on Display at the U
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Bioethics at the State Fair
Bioethics at the Minnesota State Fair! Results Posted!
Once again, the Center for Bioethics faculty and staff were at the Academic Health Center's booth and on the
U of M stage at the 2007 Minnesota State Fair. Visitors, all ages, had an opportunity to play "What’s Your Spin"
and win prizes. Check out the RECENTLY posted results!
2007 Read more about this year’s State Fair fun.
2006 Read more about last year’s State Fair fun.
Fall 2007 Mini-Bioethics School
- Tuesday, November 13: Complicity of Health Care Professionals in Interrogation — Steven Miles, M.D. Read some of the responses from this session.
- Tuesday, November 20: Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Ethics, Politics, and Policy — Jeffrey Kahn, Ph.D., MPH
- Tuesday, November 27: Ethics and Public Health Emergencies: How Should We Prepare for Pandemic Flu? — Debra DeBruin, Ph.D.
Spring 2006 Mini Bioethics School
- Monday, May 22, 2006: "The Ethics of Creating a Stem Cell Donor: Are We Ready for New Genetic Technologies?" — Jeffrey Kahn, Ph.D., MPH
- Tuesday, May 16, 2006: "The US Health Care System in International Perspective" — Steven Miles, M.D.
- Monday, May 8, 2006: "Ethics and Enhancement" — Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
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