At the  PRIM&R Advancing Ethical Research Conference. Women across the lifespan – women of childbearing potential, pregnant women, and lactating women – historically have been excluded to a greater or lesser extent from research participation. There is a tension between the Belmont Report, which advises the community to be cognizant of principles involving equitable selection … Read more

At the 2017 American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting. The 113th meeting of the  Eastern Division will take place at the beautiful Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, directly on the waterfront. The program includes over 100 sessions, including colloquium and symposium sessions, author-meets-critics sessions, the Presidential Address, the Dewey Lecture, and more. There are also exhibits, … Read more

Health care (e.g., surgery) and public health (e.g., vaccinations) contribute to an individual’s health in very different ways. This lecture investigates the significance of this difference for a human right to health. Dr. Gopal Sreenivasan is the Crown University Professor in Ethics at Duke University. His primary research interests are in moral and political philosophy, … Read more

Please join us for this presentation examining the intersections of clinical care and research. Dr. Wilfond will address ethical issues related to research on medical practices using randomization in the context of a controversial study of oxygen saturation levels in premature infants. This study, and Dr. Wilfond’s related research on public views of the role … Read more

Moral distress has negative implications for healthcare providers and organizations in terms of burnout, intent to leave, and poorer perceived work environments. Further, the presence of moral distress among healthcare providers is an indicator that something is amiss with regard to patient care. Increasingly, providers and organizations are interested in developing interventions to address moral … Read more

Video and audio recording of moments in our lives has become commonplace with the widespread use of smartphones and other recording devices. Health care settings are no exception. Recording in this sensitive domain has raised ethical issues of transparency, trust, consent, respectful treatment, welfare, confidentiality, and privacy. Theses issues, in the context of motivations, processes, … Read more

Clinicians’ religious characteristics may strongly shape practice, particularly with respect to morally controversial interventions. Religion-associated differences may then expose the limits of what we know as “medical ethics” and require us to look beneath the surface of clinical ethical disputes to examine the deeper disagreements that lead not only to arguments about which clinical interventions … Read more

David Pepper, MD, Hartford Hospital, Psychosomatic Medicine, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Striking the Balance: Patient Care, Activism, and Public Service in the Health Professions