signed, sealed, delivered,

Last spring I spent a morning eavesdropping on a

national conference here at the University of Minnesota.

The conference was about the future of bioethics. Actually,

“eavesdropping” may be a misleading term, since it

implies that I was paying attention. When the conversation

turns to budget decisions and tenure committees,

I tend to nod off. Yet this particular morning did have

its moments of clarity. The clearest of them came when

a bioethics center director stood up and repeated what

a donor had said to her while presenting her with a

check: “Your field is full of charlatans and scam artists,

and I want to know what you plan to do about it.”

(In response to which Larry Churchill later remarked,

“I wonder how he found out?”)

Later on that evening, over dinner with some of my

fellow charlatans and scam artists, our conversation

turned to the moral lives of ethicists. We wondered: are

bioethicists generally any better or worse as human beings

than, say, doctors, or lawyers, or moral philosophers?

Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m YoursBy Carl Elliott, MD, PhD

In this issue:

Center News

Page 3

Bioethics

Seminar Series

Page 3

Center’s Timeline

Page 4–5

Recent Faculty

Publications

Page 6

Calendar of Events

Page 7

Bioethics ExaminerA Publication Exploring Issues in Bioethics

Fall 2005

Volume 9

Issue 2

The field of bioethics is at a crossroads. The Center, over

its twenty year history, and other programs like it have

become integral parts of medical schools, in academic

health centers and across universities even as we struggle

with how best to train graduate students, where best to

appoint our faculty, and even whether our field should

be considered a discipline unto itself. And as Carl Elliott

asks in this issue of the Examiner, what is the role of

bioethics and bioethicists in the institutions that house

them? These are all germane questions as our field

matures and attempts to decide what it wants to be

when it grows up.

At a meeting hosted at the University of Minnesota

in May, organized by the Center for Bioethics and the

Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment

& the Life Sciences (chaired by our colleague Susan Wolf),

these and other issues were discussed by the directors of

over fifty bioethics programs from across the US and

Canada. The day’s discussions

and recommendations are

outlined in a summary

article published in the July/

August issue of the Hastings

Center Report (Wolf and

Kahn, 2005).

An outcome of the meeting

was an agreement that these

discussions need to continue, in a forum where those who

lead bioethics programs can share experiences, try out

ideas and launch collective projects. To this end, work

is in progress to launch a group for bioethics program

directors. Stay tuned for the birth announcement.

References

Wolf S, Kahn J. Bioethics Matures: The Field Faces

the Future. Hastings Center Report 2005;35(4):22–24.

From the Director ...

What Do We Want to Be When We Grow Up?By Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH

Continued on Page 2

Jeffrey Kahn

Do bioethicists have any special responsibility to scout

out ethical wrongdoing and point a finger at it? Does

it matter if the wrongdoing is taking place at the very

hospital or medical school where the ethicist works?

What if the wrongdoer is another ethicist? How should

such people be punished? Would it be excessively cruel

to have them appointed Dean?

Many of the notable bioethical scandals of the past

twenty years or so have occurred at universities with

well-respected bioethics centers. One of the most

embarrassing examples is the ALG (anti-lymphocyte

globulin) scandal that was uncovered at the University

of Minnesota in the early 1990s. But critics could also

point to the Nancy Olivieri and David Healy affairs at

the University of Toronto, Ferguson v City of Charleston

at the Medical University of South Carolina, the recent

congressional hearings into conflict of interest at the

National Institutes of Health, and the shutdown of

federally-funded research at Duke University and

University of Illinois-Chicago, among other institutions.

The worst such scandals have resulted in deaths,

such as that of Jesse Gelsinger in a research study at

the University of Pennsylvania and Ellen Roche at Johns

Hopkins University. Bioethicists were involved in only a

handful of these cases, of course. It would be unfair to

blame them for the wrongdoing of others. But it is not

unfair to ask what should be expected of bioethicists

when such scandals emerge. Part of the rationale for

funding bioethics and the medical humanities in

universities is the notion that more centers, courses, task

forces, policies and curriculum initiatives will produce

health care workers and researchers who are more

virtuous, more lawful, more compliant with regulatory

policy. What would we do if bioethics were having the

opposite effect?

Some scholars, such as my friend Francoise Baylis, have

argued that bioethicists have a special obligation to speak

out about ethical scandals at their own institutions. I can

understand the impulse behind her argument, but it is

hard to see this as a realistic expectation, at least as long

as bioethics takes its current institutional form. As much

as we might like to imagine bioethicists as braver and

more valiant than ordinary academics, it would take a

special breed of person to serve willingly as watchdog

over their friends and colleagues (not to mention over

the very people who are signing their paychecks, serving

on their promotion and tenure committees, and funding

their centers). The one case that bioethicists point to

with some pride is that of Mary Faith Marshall, who

testified against the Medical University of South

Carolina in Ferguson v City of Charleston while she was

employed there as a bioethicist. For her steadfastness,

she was denied tenure.

From a sociological perspective, one of the most

notable characteristics of North American bioethics

is the extent to which it has become embedded in

the structures of medical power that it seeks to affect.

Bioethicists are now routinely employed by medical

schools, hospitals, government bodies, professional

organizations and the pharmaceutical and biotechnology

industries. The Chair of the National Bioethics Advisory

Commission during the Clinton administration served

simultaneously as a member of the Board of Directors

for Dow Chemical, and since that time has become

a member of the Board of Directors for the Hospital

Corporation of America. The next two presidents

of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

come to the organization from the American Medical

Association and NASA (by way of the University of

Pennsylvania). Perhaps this is not surprising: if one aim

of bioethics is to bring about social and political change,

then it makes sense to do it from inside the institutions

it aims to change. But is this the only way? Political

pressure can be brought to bear on institutions from

the outside as well. America has a vigorous tradition

of political dissent, much of it arising from grassroots

political movements, watchdog groups, and advocacy

organizations. Yet this is an arena where bioethicists

are almost completely absent.

This is a sociological observation, not a call to arms.

Personally, I am temperamentally unsuited for

membership in most organized bodies; this is why

I work in a university. Nor am I quite as comfortable

as many ethicists are with a move away from teaching

and scholarship and towards social activism. Yet if

bioethics is going to be socially and politically engaged,

it is worth asking whether it is a healthy development

for the field to be so heavily involved in the medical-

industrial complex, with so little involvement in

countervailing social forces. Why has bioethics become

so much more hospitable to those who aspire to a seat

with the suits around a conference table, rather than

to those who are protesting outside?

Continued from Page 1

2

Some scholars … have

argued that bioethicists

have a special obligation

to speak out about

ethical scandals at their

own institutions.

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Center News

Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, was promoted to full professor

in May 2005; and awarded a National Library of

Medicine (NLM), NIH grant for a project on ethics

and pharmaceutical marketing.

Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, has been appointed as

co-chair of the Task Force on Faculty Culture for

the President’s Strategic Positioning Plan, University

of Minnesota.

Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, has been appointed to the

International Data and Safety Monitoring Board for

the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease,

NIH; and appointed Consultant to the Bioethics Review

Committee on Human Subjects Research, Eurasia US

Civilian Research and Development Foundation.

Steven Miles, MD, has been awarded the Paul and

Sheila Wellstone Award for Leadership in Public Health

2005 by the Minnesota Chapter, American Association

of Public Health; and the Excellence in Medical

Education 2005 Award by the University of Minnesota

Medical School.

Susan Wolf, JD, has been appointed member, Task Force

on Collegiate Design for the College of Liberal Arts,

University of Minnesota; and named Executive Editor

to Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology.

Susan Wolf, JD, Principal Investigator and

Co-investigator, Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,

were awarded a NHGRI grant for their project

on “Managing Incidental Findings in Human

Subjects Research.”

The Center for Bioethics hosts its annual bioethics

seminars from 12:15 –1:30 pm on the University of

Minnesota campus, Minneapolis, MN. For information,

contact the Center for Bioethics, or visit our website

at www.bioethics.umn.edu.

Oct 14 “Global Health Inequalities and Bioethics”

by Leigh Turner, PhD, McGill University.

Nov 3 “Comparative Stem Cell Politics: The View

from Down Under” by Rachel Ankeny, PhD, Senior

Lecturer, University of Sydney.

Dec 9 “Terri Schiavo: The Aftermath” by Ronald

Cranford, MD, Faculty Associate, Center for Bioethics,

University of Minnesota.

Jan 13 “How Clinical Trials Really Work: Rethinking

Research Ethics” by Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD, and

Debra DeBruin, PhD, Center for Bioethics, University

of Minnesota.

Feb 10 “Your Doctor Gets Paid for What?! Ethical

Issues in Pay-For-Performance Modes of Physician

Reimbursement” by David Satin, MD, University

of Minnesota.

Mar 24 “Pharma Goes to the Laundry” by Carl Elliott,

MD, PhD, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota.

Apr 21 “Human Mistakes and Mishaps: Disability,

Children, and Atavism” by Amy Laura Hall, MDiv, PhD,

Duke University Divinity School.

Annual Bioethics Seminar Series

Lecture Series on Law, Health & the Life Sciences

Visit the website at www.jointdegree.umn.edu for

information on the 2005– 06 lecture series offered

by The Joint Degree Program on Law, Health &

the Life Sciences and the Consortium on Law

and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences,

University of Minnesota Law School.

Deinard Memorial Lecture on Law & Medicine

On January 31, 2006, David H. Kaye, PhD, Arizona

State University College of Law, will speak on “Science

in the Courtroom” from 11:30 to 1:00 pm, Mississippi

Room, Coffman Union, University of Minnesota

campus. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Joint

Degree Program on Law, Health & the Life Sciences

and the Center for Bioethics. For information,

contact the Center for Bioethics.

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The Center for Bioethics has been an important hub for

discussion, research and policy recommendations on the

important bioethics issues over the last two decades.

This is the final of three issues of the Bioethics Examiner

highlighting key events in the Center’s twenty year history.

Here we highlight events from 2001–2005.

The Center offers CEU credits

through an online course

addressing ethical and

professional challenges

in genetic health care.

The Center joins a five year

project with North Dakota

State University, South

Dakota State University,

and Iowa State University

to create a consortium

to address social, economic,

and ethical aspects of

biotechnology funded

by the US Department

of Agriculture (USDA).

Center hosts a national

conference on “Physician

Assisted Dying: Assessing

the State of the Debate”

in Minneapolis, funded

by the Death with Dignity

National Center.

Center faculty expands

ethics education offerings

in the Department of

Philosophy; the School of

Nursing; Genetic Counseling;

Medical School; and by

offering summer courses

in Research Experiences

of Undergraduates in

Molecular Biology.

Minnesota Network

for Healthcare Ethics

Committees (MNHEC)

relaunched. The Center for

Bioethics is the Network’s

administrative home.

Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD

is jointly appointed as

Associate Professor in

the Center for Bioethics

and in the School of Nursing.

The Center works with the

Department of Pediatrics

to form a consensus group

on pre-implementation

genetic diagnosis and

stem cell donation funded

by the Fanconi Anemia

Research Foundation.

Steven Miles awarded the

Distinguished Service Award

from the American Society

of Bioethics and Humanities

(ASBH) for leadership and

his role in forming the ASBH.

“Pharmacogenomics:

The Legal, Ethical, and

Clinical Challenges”

conference is cosponsored

by the Consortium on Law

and Values in Health,

Environment & the Life

Sciences; the Center for

Bioethics; the College

of Pharmacy; MD/PhD

Program; and the

Department of

Pharmacology, University

of Minnesota.

Center faculty teach

an 8-week lecture series

addressing contemporary

bioethics issues at the

University of Minnesota

Elder Learning Institute.

“African Genealogy &

Genetics: Looking Back

to Move Forward” conference

cosponsored by the Center

for Bioethics and the

Powderhorn/Phillips

Cultural Wellness Center.

A first-time gathering of

national African American

scholars, community

members and religious

leaders in a dialogue on the

importance and implications

of using technologies and

genealogical methods to

reconstruct African identity.

Center creates first School

of Public Health online

course “Ethics in Public

Health: Professional

Practice and Policy.”

Bioethics reading packet—

“Human Stem Cells:

An Ethical Overview”

is produced.

Center Director Jeffrey Kahn

chairs the newly appointed


Stem Cell Ethics

Advisory Board.

The Center collaborates with

the Weisman Art Museum as

part of the exhibit Gene(sis):

Contemporary Art Explores

Human Genomics at the

Frederick R. Weisman

Art Museum.

A health care clinic for the

homeless is established

by Center faculty member

John Song.

Jeffrey Kahn named

first holder of newly

endowed Maas Family

Chair in Bioethics.

Center hosts the 20th

Bioethics Institute for faculty

in the life sciences and

extension. Funded by

the National Agricultural

Biotechnology Council

and the USDA.

The Center receives a three-

year leadership grant from

the Starr Foundation to

support the development of

a Bioethics Resource Center.

Maryam Valapour, MD

is jointly appointed

as Assistant Professor

in the Center for Bioethics

and in the Department

of Medicine.

Center faculty John Song,

Edward Ratner and Dianne

Bartels are awarded

$100,000 NIH grant for a

project on “Homelessness

and End-of-Life Care.”

“Exploring Ethics & Public

Health: An Intensive

Workshop” hosted by the

Center is cosponsored

with the Association of

Schools of Public Health;


School of Public Health;

and the Hastings Center.

The Center together with

the Bioethics Institute at

John Hopkins University

convenes a national

meeting of directors

of bioethics centers

and programs to discuss

and create guidelines

for dealing with conflicts

of interest, funded by

the Greenwall Foundation.

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“For 20 years, the University’s Center for Bioethics

has been at the forefront in addressing ethical

questions and shaping clinical and health care policy.

Established in 1985 as one of the country’s first

multi-disciplinary bioethics centers, its work

encompasses areas of health, law and ethics.”

— Brenda Hudson, editor Health Talk & You, Spring 2005, Academic Health Center,


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Bioethics at the State Fair—What the Public Thinks“Can You Lick the Problem?”

For the second year at the Minnesota State Fair,

the Center distributed more than 500 lollipops to

participants that tried to lick the problem by answering

one of three bioethics questions. Following are this

year’s questions and results. See the Center website

at www.bioethics.umn.edu for participant comments.

1. Should pharmacists be allowed to refuse to fill

a prescription based on their personal religious

or moral beliefs?

12% Yes

88% No

2. Who should have decided the fate of a 41 year

old Terri Schiavo? Her husband or her parents?

78% Husband

16% Parents

4% Both

2% Undecided

Was it right for the US Congress and President Bush

to get involved in the case?

10% Yes

89% No

1% Undecided

3. Should human embryos that are left over

after assisted reproduction to be used for

medical research?

73% Yes

24% No

3% Undecided

Center participates in Mini-

Med School by offering a

seminar on ethics and stem

cell research.

John Song awarded a 2004

Gold Foundation Faculty

Humanism in Medicine

Award by Minnesota Medical

Foundation; and the


2004 Outstanding

Community Service Award.

Steven Miles is named 2004

Minnesotan of the Year

by Minnesota Monthly,

January 2005.

Carl Elliott’s publication

“Adventures in the Gene

Pool” was a notable essay

in The Best American

Essays 2004. Edited

by Louis Menand.

Center hosts an invited

conference on homelessness

and end-of-life care on

the University of Minnesota

campus.

The Center for Bioethics

works with the University

of Minnesota’s Stem Cell

Institute and it’s partners

to place the University

of Minnesota at the

forefront of research

that will improve the lives

of thousands of individuals.

Special issues of The Journal

of Law, Medicine & Ethics

Symposium: Looking

Forward in Bioethics

2004:32(2) edited by Center

faculty; and “Ethics What

Guides our Practice”

in Minnesota Medicine,

June 2004.

“The Minnesota Center for

Bioethics at 20: Coming

of Age” a symposium to

mark the Center’s

20th Anniversary.

Mary Faith Marshall, PhD,

is jointly appointed as

Professor in the Center for

Bioethics, and Associate

Dean in the Medical School.

First ever Mini Bioethics

School—a track

of University of Minnesota

Mini-Med School.

Bioethics Resource Center

announces its newest publi-

cation on “End-of-Life Care:

An Ethical Overview.”

Bioethics Course designator

is approved by the Office

of the Senior Vice President

for Academic Affairs

and Provost.

Center for Bioethics and

the Consortium on Law

and Values in Health,

Environment & the Life

Sciences host a working

meeting on the future of

the field of bioethics on

the University of Minnesota

campus, cosponsored by 15

bioethics centers, programs,

and departments from

across the country.

Bioethics Resource Center

launches a new

interactive website.

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Center for Bioethics

and the Joint Degree

Program in Law, Health

& the Life Sciences host

a conference, “Genetic

Testing and the Future

of Disability Insurance:

Ethics, Law & Policy”

in Minneapolis, funded

by NIH.

Center faculty Joan

Liaschenko, Debra

DeBruin and Anastasia

Fischer (Public Health

Institute) receive funding

for a project on “Nurses:

Research Integrity in

Clinical Trials” from the

National Institute for

Nursing Research, NIH.

Carl Ellliott named one

of the top 10 authors

in Minnesota by Mpls/St.

Paul magazine.

sity’s Center for Bioethics

t in addressing ethical

linical and health care policy.

ne of the country’s first

hics centers, its work

alth, law and ethics.”

You, Spring 2005, Academic Health Center,

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Recent Faculty Publications

Book Chapters

Faden R, Mastroianni A, Kahn J. Beyond Belmont:

Trust, Openness and the Work of the Advisory

Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.

In Childress J, Meslin E, Shapiro H (eds.) The Belmont

Report Revisited: Ethical Principles of Biomedical Research

and Practice. Washington, DC: Georgetown University

Press, 2005.

Miles S. Informed Demand for “Non-Beneficial”

Medical Treatment. In Battin M, Francis L, Landesman

M (eds.) Death, Dying and the Ending of Life. Hants,

England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2005.

Wolf S. Physician-Assisted Suicide. In Emanuel L (ed.)

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine. Chicago, IL: American

Medical Association, 2005.

Articles

Bebeau M. Evidence-based Ethics Education. Summons,

The Journal for Medical and Dental Defence Union

of Scotland 2005:13–15.

De Vries R, Marincola E, Anderson M, Martinson B.

Promoting Research Integrity: Do We Need Better

Scientists or Better Science? Journal of Neurochemistry

2005;94(1):6.

De Vries R. Framing Neuroethics: A Sociological

Assessment of the Neuroethical Imagination.

American Journal of Bioethics 2005;5(2):25.

De Vries R. Deference and Scrutiny on a General IRB.

Presented at the Meetings of the American Sociological

Association, Philadelphia, August 2005.

Elliott C. Adventure! Comedy! Tragedy! Robots!

How Bioethicists Learned to Stop Worrying and

Love their Inner Cyborgs. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

2005;2(1):18–23.

Elliott C. The Soul of a New Machine: Bioethicists

and the Bureaucracy. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare

Ethics 2005;14:379–384.

Kahn J. A Multi-Faceted History. Review of Goodman J,

McElligott A, Marks L (eds.) Useful Bodies: Humans in

the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century.

IRB 2005;27(5):19.

Martinson B, Anderson M, De Vries R. Scientists

Behaving Badly. Nature 2005;435(9):737–738.

Miles S. Author’s Reply to Reader’s Response to Medical

Investigations of Homicides of Prisoners of War in Iraq

and Afghanistan. Medscape 2005;7:3.

Satin D. More Realism About Informed Consent.

The Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine

2005;145(6):292–294.

Song J, Ratner E, Bartels D. Dying While Homeless:

Is it a Concern When Life Itself is Such a Struggle?

Journal of Clinical Ethics 2005;16(3):251–261.

Tauer C. Obstetric and Pediatric Genetics: An Ethical

View. Health Progress 2005;86(4):13–18.

Wolf S. Are We Making Progress in the Debate Over

Racial and Ethnic Categories in Biomedical Research?

Nature Genetics 2005;37:789–790.

Wolf S, Kahn J. Bioethics Matures: The Field Faces

the Future. Hastings Center Report 2005;35(4):22–24.

Wolf S. Assessing Physician Compliance with the Rules

for Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. Archives of Internal

Medicine 2005;165:1677–1679.

Visit our website atwww.bioethics.umn.eduThe Center for Bioethics website includes:

Information on graduate studies in bioethics, course offerings, and other educational programs

Center faculty descriptions and their research interests

Current and past issues of the Bioethics Examiner,

Annual Reports, and Bioethics Overviews

Upcoming events and announcements

Links to other bioethics resources

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Calendar of Events

Nov 8Mary Faith Marshall, PhD,

will speak on “Stem Cell

Research–Pros and Cons”

at the Minnesota Women’s

Economic Roundtable,

Minneapolis, MN.

For information, email

[email protected].

Nov 9David Satin, MD, will

speak on “Clinical,

Ethical, and Legal Aspects

of Somali Patients’ Refusal

of Caesarean Section”

at Abbott Northwestern

Hospital, Minneapolis, MN.

For information, call

612-624-9440.

Nov 13Carol Tauer, PhD, will

speak on “Stem Cell

Research Ethics” at Mt.

Carmel Lutheran Church,

Minneapolis, MN. For

information, email

[email protected].

Nov 13Dianne Bartels, RN, MA,

PhD, will speak on “The

Power to Divide: Ethics

of Stem Cell Research and

Transplantation” at the

National Society for

Genetic Counselors Annual

Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

For information,

call 612-624-9440.

Nov 13Steven Miles, MD, will

speak on “US Health Care

System in International

Perspective” at the

Westminster Presbyterian

Church, Minneapolis, MN.


gretchenmusicant@

hotmail.com.


speak on “Global Health

and the Frightened Empire”

at the 2005 University

of Minnesota Medical

School Alumni International

Distinguished Physician

Award Program,

Minneapolis, MN.

For information,

call 612-625-7933.


speak on “Prisoner Abuse

at Abu Ghraib” at the Alden

March Bioethics Institute

Albany Medical Center,

Albany, NY. For information,

visit www.amc.edu/

academic/ethics.

Nov 17Dianne Bartels, RN, MA,

PhD, will speak at the

American Association of

University Women (AAUW),

Minnetonka, MN.

For information,

call 612-624-9440.

Nov 17Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,


Research: An Ethics

and Policy Update”

at Eisenhower Grand

Rounds, Annenberg

Center for Health Sciences,

Rancho Mirage, CA.

For information,

call 760-773-4506.

Nov 22Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,


Research —Ethics and Policy

Issues” for University

of Minnesota Retirees

Association, Minneapolis,

MN. For information,

call 612-377-1075.

Dec 3Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,

will speak on “Who Says No?

Decision Making and Ethical

Considerations in Assisted

Reproduction” at the

Minnesota Section of

the American College

of Obstetricians and

Gynecologists Annual

Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

For information,

call 612-670-7810.

Dec 5Mary Faith Marshall, PhD,

will participate on a panel

“Conflicts of Interest:

Concepts and Challenges”

at Public Responsibility in

Medicine and Research

(PRIM&R) Annual Meeting,

Human Research Protection

Program (HRPP), Boston,

MA. For information,

call 612-624-9440.

Dec 6Steven Miles, MD, will speak

on “Prisoner Abuse at Abu

Ghraib” at the University

of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN.

For information,

call 612-866-4637.

Dec 8Steven Miles, MD, will speak

on “Traveling in Foreign

Countries: What You Should

Know” at the Women

on the Move Radio Program.

For information, visit

www.womenonthemove.us.

Dec 12–1312/12 Jeffrey Kahn, PhD,

MPH, will participate in

sessions on “Additional

Topics for the Model

Curriculum in Public Health

Ethics,” and “Civil Rights,

Ethics and Public Health”;

12/13 “Individuals and

the Public Health Code

of Ethics” at the American

Public Health Association

(APHA) Annual Meeting,

Philadelphia, PA.


www.apha.org.

Jan 13Carl Elliott, MD, PhD,

will speak on “Cognitive

Enhancement,” at Arizona

State University, Tempe, AZ.


[email protected].

Jan 19Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,

will speak at the College of

St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN.

For information,

call 218-723-6000.

Feb 2Steven Miles, MD, will

present two lectures at

Vanderbilt University

Medical Center, Nashville,

TN. For information,

call 615-936-2686/

615-343-6060.

Feb 12Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, will

speak on “Better than Well,”

at the New Zealand

Bioethics Conference,

Dunedin, New Zealand. For

information, email sally.boult

@stonebow.otago.ac.nz.

Mar 31Steven Miles, MD, will

speak at Samford University,

Birmingham, AL.

For information,

call 205-726-2820.

Apr 5Steven Miles, MD, will

speak at Grand Rounds,

Abington Memorial

Hospital, Abington, PA.


[email protected].

Apr 6Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,

will speak on “Ethics of

Stem Cell Research” at

the American Academy

of Audiology Symposium,

Minneapolis, MN.


[email protected].

Apr 6Steven Miles, MD, will

speak on “The Legacy of

Abu Ghraib for the Ethics

of Medicine” at the

University of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia, PA.

For information,

call 215-898-7136.

Apr 13Steven Miles, MD, will speak

on “The Hippocratic Oath

and the Ethics of Medicine”

at Friends of Eastcliff Book

Club, Minneapolis, MN.


www.bookstore.umn.edu/

eastcliff.html.

Center Faculty & StaffCenter FacultyJeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH

Director and Maas Family

Chair in Bioethics

Dianne Bartels, RN, MA, PhD

Associate Director

Debra DeBruin, PhD

Director of Graduate Studies

John Song, MD, MPH, MAT

Director of Medical

Education

Carl Elliott, MD, PhD

Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD

Mary Faith Marshall, PhD

Steven Miles, MD

Maryam Valapour, MD

Susan M. Wolf, JD

Visiting FacultyRaymond de Vries, PhD

Carol Tauer, PhD

Post-Doctoral FellowDavid Satin, MD

Faculty AssociatesMuriel Bebeau, PhD

Ronald Cranford, MD

Barbara Elliott, PhD

Rosalie Kane, PhD

David Mayo, PhD

Gregory Plotnikoff, MD, MTS

Edward Ratner, MD

Karen-Sue Taussig, PhD

Beth Virnig, PhD, MPH

Resource CenterAmy Ward

Graduate AssistantsAlicia Hall

Barton Moffatt

Susan Parry

Administrative StaffChelsea Brink

LeeAnne Hoekstra

Candace Holmbo

Karen Howard

Kayla Martin

Margaret O’Neill

Ryan Scherf

The Winter 2006

Bioethics Examiner

submission deadline is

January 6, 2006.

Send submissions to:

Bioethics Examiner

Center for Bioethics


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The Center offers classes under its new designator starting

in Spring semester 2006.

BTHX 5100 – Introduction to Clinical Ethics (3 cr)

This course addresses the ethical issues inherent in the provider/patient

encounter. It is designed to foster interdisciplinary study and dialogue

about these important moral issues.

BTHX 5900 – Independent Study in Bioethics (1-4 cr)

Students propose area for study with faculty guidance, write a proposal,

which includes outcome objectives, and work plan. The faculty member

directs student’s work and evaluates the project.

BTHX 8000 – Advanced Topics in Bioethics (1-4 cr)

Advanced study of bioethics topics of contemporary interest

Medical Consumerism (3 cr)

Gender and the Politics of Health (3 cr)

BTHX 8900 – Advanced Independent Study in Bioethics (1-4 cr) Students

propose area for study with faculty guidance, write a proposal, which

includes outcome objectives, and work plan. The faculty member directs

student’s work and evaluates the project.

Contact the Center at 612-624-9440 or see the website

www.bioethics.umn.edu for more information.

Bioethics Courses offeredSpring 2006

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