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Pregnancy, the Pandemic and Morality of Reproduction

October 30, 2020

Health Humanities Grand Round with Dr. Anne Lyerly Nov. 10, 2020 @ noon Pregnancy, the Pandemic and Morality of Reproduction The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a range of tensions at the interface of public policies and the private lives of individuals, including in the context of pregnancy.  In this talk, Dr. Lyerly will highlight these tensions, … Read more

Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience: A Workshop on the Intersection of Medical Advocacy and Medical Ethics

October 1, 2020

View Recording As biomedicine globalizes, questions of international medical ethics become increasingly apparent. The People’s Republic of China is the country with the steepest increase in the number of transplants in the past 20 years. As of today, it claims to perform at least the second-highest number of annual transplants. The number of human organs … Read more

How Pandemics Show Us Who We Are: Race and Risk in the United States

September 25, 2020

The Health & Human Rights Lecture, titled “How Pandemics Show Us Who We Are: Race and Risk in the United States,” will be held virtually on Oct. 7 at 6:30 p.m. The lecture will be given by Mary Bassett, the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and professor of the … Read more

Conscience, stigma, and the tension of opposites in reproductive healthcare.

July 24, 2019

Onyen is required to view the lecture. Dr. Harris’ research examines issues at the intersection of clinical obstetrical and gynecological care and law, policy, politics, ethics, history, and sociology. She conducts interdisciplinary, mixed methods research on many issues along the reproductive justice continuum, including abortion, miscarriage, contraception, in vitro fertilization (IVF), infertility and birth, and … Read more