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
Gail E. Henderson, PhD, is professor of Social Medicine in the School of Medicine, and Director of the UNC Center for Genomics and Society. She was Chair of Social Medicine from 2009 to 2015, and co-Director of the Center for AIDS Research International Core from 2004 to 2014. Her teaching and research interests include global … Read more
Dr. Karen Meagher graduated in Hamilton College in 2004 with a B.A.in biology. She received a PhD in Philosophy from Michigan State University in 2012, her dissertation was entitled A Virtue Approach to Public Health Ethics. While at Michigan State, she served as an undergraduate advisor in the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the … Read more
Dr. Resnik has an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and J.D. from Concord University School of Law. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Davidson College. Dr. Resnik was an Associate and Full Professor of Medical Humanities at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina … Read more
This event is co-sponsored by the Parr Center for Ethics and the UNC Center for Bioethics. For more information, see the Parr Center Events: CRISPR: The History, Science and Ethics of Genetic Modification.
