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Providing Optimal Care When Providers and Patients Do Not Share the Same Language

Chair and Professor, Communication Studies University of Minnesota Elaine Hsieh (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004; J.D., University of … Continued

Conceptualizing Culture in Healthcare Contexts: A Theoretical Framework

Chair and Professor, Communication Studies University of Minnesota Elaine Hsieh (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004; J.D., University of … Continued

How to Protect Healthy Volunteers from Exploitation in Biomedical Research?

Agenda Click Here to Register   PURPOSE: The VolREthics international initiative on ethical issues related with healthy volunteers’ involvement in … Continued

Absurdity and Meaning

Professor and Section Head of Philosophy at M.I.T. http://www.ksetiya.net/ It is a cliché about philosophers that they ponder the meaning … Continued

Driving Down Infant and Child Mortality: Victories, Dilemmas, and Persistent Disparities

Perri Klass is Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University and Co-Director of NYU Florence. She attended Harvard … Continued

Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics and Mental Health

Senior Investigator, Department of Bioethics at the N.I.H. Clinical Center https://irp.nih.gov/pi/scott-kim   Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for registration information. … Continued

Affect, Value and Decisional Capacity

Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duke University https://scholars.duke.edu/person/jen.hawkins Our ability to look after ourselves and promote our own interests can … Continued

Co-Lab(orative) Learning Workshop from UNC CHER

The UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) Health Equity Research Intensive (HERI) is offering a collaborative learning workshop as … Continued

Finding the ‘Greater Good’ in an Era of Polarization: What Vaccine Hesitancy Has Taught Us

Wednesday, September 14th, 12:00 – 1:30 pm Heidi J Larson, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science Director, The … Continued

Vaccination and Its Historical Discontents: The Long-Term View on Skepticism and ‘Personal Belief Exemptions’

Elena Conis, PhD, MS, MJ Associate Professor Graduate School of Journalism – Department of History – CSTMS University of California, … Continued

Resident Bioethics Interest Group Book Talk

Resident Bioethics Interest Group Special Journal Club Session

Please join us as we discuss “The Doctor’s Oldest Tool” (Elvin H. Gang, MD, MPH) and consider the “chain of … Continued

2nd Annual UNC Philosophy and Psychiatry Conference

The Future of Human Nature: Transhumanism, Dehumanization and Virtual Worlds.

The 2nd Annual UNC Philosophy and Psychiatry Conference is on the theme of “The Future of Human Nature: Transhumanism, Dehumanization … Continued

Responsibility without Blame: Working with “Unwise Choices” in Healthcare Contexts

Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecture Series

Hanna Pickard (BA Hons, BPhil, DPhil) is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at  Johns Hopkins University, cross-appointed to the William H. Miller III Department of … Continued

Towards a Better Understanding of Craving in Addiction: Philosophy, Science, Ethics

Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecture Series

Hanna Pickard (BA Hons, BPhil, DPhil) is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at  Johns Hopkins University, cross-appointed to the William H. Miller III Department of … Continued

Survivor Guilt

Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics and Mental Health

Jordan MacKenzie, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for … Continued

Ethics in the Healthcare Professions

Members of the Hospital Ethics Committee and medical students from the Clinical Ethics Discussion Group, together with the Bioethics Society … Continued

Institutional Resources for Moral Distress: What works?

Please join us for engaging conversation! Pre-reading if able: Must we be courageous?   Click here to join   Speakers … Continued