Advanced Research Ethics Training in South Africa

July 29, 2016

ARESA Co-Principal Investigators: Keymanthri Moodley (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) Stuart Rennie (UNC) A collaboration between C:B Core Faculty member Stuart Rennie and colleagues at Stellenbosch University in South Africa has been awarded a grant from the Fogarty International Center of NIH to support research ethics education inSouthern Africa. The Advancing Research Ethics training in Southern … Read more

Dying With Dignity: Science and Religion in the Face of Suffering

October 3, 2022

Please register by Monday, October 10th. In care for people with terminal illness and severe disabilities, the most impressive achievements of modern medical science meet our deepest human concerns about how to handle suffering, what happens when we die, and what it means to live a good life. Cases that cannot be cured pose special … Read more

Realizing the Right to Health through Healthcare Technologies

September 28, 2022

Hybrid Zoom Link New and emerging healthcare technologies—including whole genome sequencing, wearables, and AI assisted treatments—offer innovative possibilities for realizing the right to health. These technologies hold the potential for automatizing certain processes to free up time for healthcare professionals to spend with patients, detecting disease more accurately and swiftly, and furthering access in remote communities. However, digital medicine also raises other human rights … Read more

2022 Annual EBT Conference: Recovery and Resilience

January 5, 2022

Recovery and Resilience The North Carolina Child Treatment Program seeks to address the gap between researched best practice and community-based mental health services for children and families overcoming trauma. Through the Spring 2022 Annual EBT Conference, NC CTP aims to help our Learning Collaborative graduates sustain and improve EBT implementation and learn about existing and … Read more

Clinical Ethics

May 11, 2020

Last Updated 08/04/2020 Op-Eds and Blog Posts Julian Savulescu, “Good Reasons to Vaccinate: COVID19 Vaccine, Mandatory or Payment Model?” Practical Ethics Blog, July 28, 2020. Sahanika Ratnayake, “It’s Not Catastrophizing if it’s a Catastrophe: Lessons from the Pandemic for Psychotherapy,” Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, July 20, 2020. Sarah Li, “Using the Pandemic as … Read more

When Clinical Advances Outpace Ethics

May 2, 2019

In the United States, about 6.5 million adults are living with heart failure, and about half of those patients will die within 5 years of diagnosis.1 For patients with advanced chronic heart failure or acute unrecoverable decompensation, heart transplantation offers a cure. However, the number of patients with end-stage heart failure is increasing while the … Read more

The Politics of Pain: Medicine and the Gatekeepers of Relief in America’s Opioid Era

August 14, 2018

Keith Andrew Wailoo is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University where he teaches in the Department of History and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is the Chair of the Department of History, and the former Vice Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School. He has produced award-winning research and teaches on a range … Read more

Current Second Year Medical Student Electives by C:B faculty members

October 25, 2017

This semester UNC Center for Bioethics faculty members Stuart Rennie, Jill Fisher, Mara Buchbinder, and Eric Juengst are all teaching Advanced Seminars in the Humanities and Social Sciences for MS2 students in the UNC School of Medicine. These seminars offer medical students an opportunity to engage with scholarship on health, illness, and medical care in … Read more

Charting ELSI’s Future Course

December 20, 2016

PURPOSE: We sought to examine the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) literature research and scholarship types, topics, and contributing community fields of training as a first step to charting the broader ELSI community’s future priorities and goals. METHODS: We categorized 642 articles and book chapters meeting inclusion criteria for content in both human genetics … Read more

Germ-Line Gene Therapy and the Clinical Ethos of Medical Genetics

December 20, 2016

Although the ability to perform gene therapy in human germ-line cells is still hypothetical, the rate of progress in molecular and cell biology suggests that it will only be a matter of time before reliable clinical techniques will be within reach. Three sets of arguments are commonly advanced against developing those techniques, respectively pointing to … Read more

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