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Louise Winstanly discusses the IntraHealth campaign, End Shame: Restore Dignity. Two million women around the world live with fistula. Up to 100,000 more develop the condition every year, according to the World Health Organization. In low-income countries such as Mali, many women do not have access to the skilled health...

Talk 2015 September 17 @ 12pm – 1pm, Brinkhous-Bullitt 219 (TraCS Conference Room). Research Ethics Grand Rounds. Jennifer Fishman, McGill University. In the last few years, the landscape of translational genomic research has been changing and is no longer confined to strictly academic research or institutionalized health care. New voices...

Luncheon and talk 2015 September 22 @ 12:30pm. Please register if you plan to attend. Parr Center for Ethics, Ethics Around the Table. Dr. Amina White speaks about dilemmas that clinicians face in providing obstetrical care for survivors of childhood or adult sexual abuse who may perceive certain routine or...

Based in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, ĦIVE links the humanities and health sciences through student-centered research projects, innovative curricula, and public engagement. Students and faculty from diverse fields—ranging from anthropology, journalism, and biology to occupational science, medicine, and social work—come together in teams to ask questions...

Mara Buchbinder. Published June 2015. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pediatric pain clinic in California, Mara Buchbinder explores how clinicians, adolescent patients, and their families make sense of puzzling symptoms and work to alleviate pain. Through careful attention to the language of pain—including narratives, conversations, models, and metaphors—and detailed...

Conference 2015 September 18 @ 8:30 am – 5 pm. Saying no: Exploring the ethical dimensions of refusals in healthcare. Refusals take place across the spectrum of healthcare–from the clinician who refuses to offer treatment believed to be futile, non-beneficial or inappropriate; the patient who spurns a proposed discharge plan;...

Legislative support for physician aid-in-dying (PAD) in the United States has risen steadily in recent years. Five states currently authorize physicians to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to a mentally competent, terminally ill, adult patient for the purpose of ending the patient’s life, provided that certain preconditions are met....

It is fitting that the release of our annual report corresponds with the implementation phase of the Carolina Value Initiative. The Hospital Ethics Committee (HEC) and the Clinical Ethics Services it supports are representative of the institution’s dedication to the care of its patients and education of its clinicians. The...

Anne Lyerly and her team receive a notice of award for their NIH R01 grant, Pregnancy and HIV/AIDS: Seeking Equitable Study. The PHASES project aims to develop immediate, ethically acceptable strategies to conducting research on HIV treatment and prevention during pregnancy. PHASES will focus on three specific areas of HIV...

Mara Buchbinder has been selected for a Greenwall Faculty Scholars Award for her study, Clinical Ethics, Communication, and Physician Aid-in-Dying. Legislative support for physician aid-in-dying in the United States has risen steadily in recent years: five states have legalized the practice, while six additional states considered proposals in their 2014 legislative...