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Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics

“Immigration Policy: Sovereignty, Humanitarian Law, or Human Rights?”

Starr Auditorium, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Ruth Gavison
Haim H. Cohn Professor of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University

Tickets are not required

Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics

“University Tanner Lectures on Human Values 2007-08”

HMS, Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: Tony Kushner

Pulitzer prize-winning playwright (Angels in America)
Two lectures and a seminar will be offered.

Works in Progress Presentation Series

“Education and the Role of the Pediatric Ethicist”

HMS, Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Jennifer Kesselheim, MD
Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital

Co-sponsored by Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics.
RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu or call 617-432-5950.

The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar

“Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine - Work Hour Limitations: Benefits and Harms”

HMS, Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th Floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: Hasan Bazari, MD
Associate Chief of Medicine and Program Director of Medical Services, MGH.

Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics.
RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.

Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics

“Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens”

HU Kennedy School of Government, Starr Auditorium, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Josiah Ober
Professor of Classics and Political Science, Stanford University

Third Annual International BioEthics Conference of The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health

“Ethical Issues in the Measurement of Health and the Global Burden of Disease”

The Inn at Longwood, 342 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA (in proximity to HMS and HSPH)

Registration information available soon. Registration required. No fee.

Notable Books Series - Book Signing

“Just Health - Meeting Health Needs Fairly”

Countway Library, Minot Room – 5th floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA
Norman Daniels, PhD
Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Faculty, The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health

4:30 PM Presentation, 5:30 PM Reception

The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health Speaker Series

“A risk based analysis for the evaluation of public health systems”

HMS, 641 Huntington Ave, 2nd floor conference room
Jonathan Wolff
Department of Philosophy, University College London

RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu or call 617-432-5950.

Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics

“Conference on Human Rights & the New Global Order ”

Conference Organizer: Professor Mathias Risse

Co-sponsored with other Harvard departments and centers
More information, including speakers and topics, can be found here

Works in Progress Presentation Series

“Choosing Whom to Aid”

HMS, Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Carlos Soto
Student, Harvard Medical School

Co-sponsored by Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics.
RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu or call 617-432-5950

The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar

“Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine - Who Is the Doctor? Diffusion of Responsibility in Teaching Hospitals”

HMS, Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th Floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: Ralph I. Horwitz, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford University

Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics.
RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu.