Calendar Archive, Jan-Mar 2008

Research in Progress Presentation Series

“Are We Morally Responsible for our Lifestyle Choicesin a Way That is Relevant for Distributional Justice?”

HMS, Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: JP Sevilla
Academic Fellow, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law 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 - Industry Sponsorship of Continuing Medical Education”

Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th Floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: Martin A. Samuels, MD
Neurologist-in-Chief and Chair, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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

Symposium on Current Controversies in International Health

“Market for Kideys?”

Harvard School of Public Health, Room G2, Kresge Building, Boston (Map PDF)
Topics and Speakers:

• The World Health Organization and the International Organ Trade
  Dr. Luc Noel - WHO
• Curbing the Sale of Organs
  Dr. Francis L. Delmonico, The Transplantation Society and New England Organ Bank
• A Workable, Defensible Market for Organs
  Professor Julio J. Elias, Economist - SUNY
• Payment for Kidneys: The Most Fundamental Concern?
  Professor Nir Eyal, Div of Medical Ethics and Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
• Is Organ-Selling Inherently Wrong? ‘Kantian’ Objections
  Professor Samuel Kerstein, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
• Symposium Chairperson: Professor Daniel Wikler, HSPH and The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health

Co-sponsored by The Harvard University Program in Ethics & Health and The Department of Population and International Health, HSPH
Free and open to the public. RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu or call 617-432-5950.

The Medical Ethics Forum

“Medically Intervening on Behalf of the Fetus: The State of the Science, Ethics and Law”

Harvard Medical School, MEC 227, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
Speakers:

• Russell Jennings, MD, Director, Advanced Fetal Care Center, Children's Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Surgery, HMS
• R. Alta Charo, JD, Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison
• Dan Wikler, PhD, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health, HSPH
• Sadath A. Sayeed, JD, MD, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Social Medicine, HMS and Attending Neonatologist, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, moderator.

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

Research in Progress Presentation Series

“Stem Cells: Creating HLA Matched Babies”

Research in Progress Series

HMS, Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: Katrien Devolder, PhD
Scientific Research Fund – Flanders, Bioethics Institute Ghent (BIG), Department of Philosophy at Ghent University, Belgium

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 Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health Speaker Series

“Severe Poverty”

HMS, 641 Huntington Ave, 2nd floor conference room, Boston
Speaker: Thomas Pogge, PhD
Professor of Political Science, Columbia University; CAPPE, Autralian National University; Oslo University Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature

Sponsored by the Division of Medical Ethics.
RSVP to ethics_health@harvard.edu or call 617-432-5950.

The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar

“Ethical Problems Specific to Academic Medicine - Mentors and Tormentors: Ethical Issues in Faculty Conduct”

HMS, Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th Floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: Edward M. Hundert, MD
Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics, HMS, former President, Case Western Reserve University.

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

The 2008 Lawrence Lader Lecture on Family Planning and Reproductive Rights

“The Baby Business: What’s Wrong with the Current Market for Reproductive Medicine and How to Make it Better”

Harvard Medical School, MEC Amphitheater, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
Speaker: Debora L. Spar, PhD
Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School.

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

The 2008 George W. Gay Lecture

Harvard Medical School, MEC Amphitheater, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
Speaker: Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD
President, Institute of Medicine.

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

Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics

“Colloquium with G.A. Cohen”

Location TBA
Speaker: G.A. Cohen
Chiechele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford and A. J. Julius, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UCLA

Co-sponsored with Harvard's Government and Philosophy Departments

“Justice and Constructivism”

Cosponsored with Harvard’s departments of Government and Philosophy

CGIS-South, Room S010, 1737 Cambridge
G.A. Cohen
Chiechele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford and A. J. Julius, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UCLA

Research in Progress Series

“Treating Persons Merely as Means: On the Ethics of Organ Sales”

HMS, Ballard Room (5th floor) Countway Library, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: Samuel Kerstein, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health

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 - Playing Doctor in Teaching Hospitals”

HMS, Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th Floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston
Speaker: Marshall A. Wolf, MD
Vice Chair for Medical Education, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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