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Past Events

Preempting "The Breasts that will Have to Be Removed": Puberty Suppression and Pediatric Gender Transition
February 15, 2018 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Ethical Care for Gender Variant Children: A Sociomedical Perspective
February 15, 2018 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Responsible Reporting of Gun Violence: Protecting Communities and the First Amendment, Preventing Copycat Violence
February 9, 2018 -
8:30am to 4:00pm
Disabled Bodies and Genetic Enhancement: A Phenomenological Critique
February 5, 2018 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Ethical Issues in HIV+ to HIV+ Solid Organ Transplants
January 26, 2018 -
1:30pm to 3:00pm
Ethical and Policy Considerations and the Use of Biomedical Approaches to Preventing HIV Infection
January 26, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Inclusive Education in Healthy Education - A Discussion with the Disability Studies Reading Group
January 26, 2018 -
11:30am to 1:00pm
The History of Surgical Education in Amercia: Past, Present, and Back to the Future
January 23, 2018 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
What Can Blindness Teach Us About 'Seeing'? Molyneux, Neuroplasticity, and Technologies of Sensory Substitution
January 22, 2018 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
CEP Fall Class Series: Healthcare Law and Bioethics
December 19, 2017 (All day)
Safe-and-Substantive Perspectivism
December 5, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Don't Forget to Remember: The Importance of Family Recipes, Holiday Traditions, and Stories in the Grieving Process
December 4, 2017 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Construct Validity Challenges in Psychiatry Using Human and Animal Models
November 28, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Healing People, Not Patients
November 16, 2017 -
5:30pm to 8:30pm
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear (and Vice Versa): The Highest Stakes in Medicine
November 16, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Informed Consent: What Information is Relevant?
November 15, 2017 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
How Reproductive Rights Have Failed Women and What to Do About It
November 9, 2017 -
12:30pm to 1:30pm
The West Virginia Model for Medical Licensing in the United States and Some of its Unintended Consequences
November 7, 2017 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
2017 Humanities in Medicine Symposium
October 27, 2017 - 9:00am to October 29, 2017 - 9:00am
Journey to the Center of Bioethics and Humanities
October 19, 2017 - 9:00am to October 22, 2017 - 5:00pm
Conscientious Objection and Professional Obligation: From Military Chaplains to Modern Medicine
October 16, 2017 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Against Health: What could be wrong with health? Shouldn't we be for Health?
October 12, 2017 -
10:00am to 11:00am
Does a Surgeon, John Collins Warren, Deserve the Credit for the Discovery of Anesthesia?
September 26, 2017 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Consciousness and End of Life Ethical Issues
September 25, 2017 -
5:00pm to 6:15pm
Neuroethics of Implantable Brain Stimulation Devices Symposium
September 25, 2017 -
8:30am to 3:00pm
Disability Reading Group: Accommodations and Accessibility in the Academy
September 22, 2017 -
10:00am to 11:00am
Balancing Law and Ethics in Healthcare Dilemmas
September 15, 2017 - 12:00pm to September 17, 2017 - 12:00pm
Who Owns the Dead? The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero
September 11, 2017 -
4:30pm to 6:00pm
"Genomics and Society: Expanding the ELSI Universe"
June 5, 2017 - 7:30am to June 7, 2017 - 3:30pm
Protection or Paternalism? Rethinking the Ethics of Research and Vulnerable People
April 25, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
"James D. Hardy and the First Heart and Lung Transplant at the University of Mississippi Medical Center"
April 5, 2017 - 6:00pm
"Ethical Issues in Caring for Diverse Patient Populations"
March 31, 2017 -
8:00am to 4:30pm
Visiting Professor in Bioethics and Medicine - "'Autonomous' Decisions and the Ethics of Nudging"
March 28, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Just the Facts versus the Whole Truth: Medicine, Poetry, and Healing
March 27, 2017 -
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Visiting Professor in Medical Humanities
March 27, 2017 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Conference on Medicine and Religion - Re-Enchanting Medicine
March 24, 2017 - 8:00am to March 26, 2017 - 5:00pm
Bioethics Grand Rounds in the Department of Medicine
March 20, 2017 - 12:00pm to March 20, 2018 - 1:00pm
"Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health"
March 17, 2017 -
2:00pm to 4:00pm
"Repeal, Repair, or Replace? The Future of the Affordable Care Act"
March 16, 2017 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
"Harnessing the Power of Scenario Planning for High-Stakes Decision Making"
March 15, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
"Hospitality and Disability"
March 15, 2017 -
9:30am to 11:30am
"Day of Mourning: Remembering People with Disabilities Murdered by Caregivers"
March 1, 2017 -
7:00pm to 8:00pm
"Seeing Things Differently: Insights on Perception and Disorders of Movement from the Dawn of Motion Pictures"
February 28, 2017 - 6:00pm
Visiting Professor in Bioethics and Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
February 28, 2017 -
7:15am to 8:15am
Imagining Dementia: Slow Death, Suicide, or Social Transformation?
February 27, 2017 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Visiting Professor in Public Health Genomics
February 10, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
"Leveraging a Legacy of Activism: Black Lives Matter and the Way Forward for HIV Research"
February 7, 2017 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
"On Diagnosing the Secular Rituals of Aging"
February 6, 2017 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
"Normative Practice in Nonhuman Animals: The Roots of Morality"
February 3, 2017 -
3:30pm to 4:30pm
"On the Explanatory Relevance of Neuroeconomics"
January 31, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Public Health Grand Rounds
January 26, 2017 -
10:00am to 11:15am
Visiting Professors in Pediatrics
January 26, 2017 -
8:00am to 9:00am
"Origins of the World Health Organization’s Definition of Health: Pittsburgh Threads"
January 24, 2017 - 6:00pm
"The Promise and Peril of Human Rights Technology
January 24, 2017 -
5:00pm to 6:00pm
"Voices Heard: A Social History of HIV Testing in the U.S."
January 19, 2017 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
"Reason and Emotions in Patients' Healthcare Decisions"
January 18, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
"Empowerment Failure - How Physician Recommendations Undermine Patient Preferences"
January 17, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
"Diversity in the Precision Medicine Initiative: The Politics of Intent and Practice"
December 9, 2016 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
"Recurrent Losers Unite': Evidence-Based Activism and Pregnancy Loss"
December 5, 2016 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
"Can Curiosity Promote Healthy Living?" Panel Discussion
December 1, 2016 -
7:30pm to 9:00pm
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
November 25, 2016 - 7:00pm to December 11, 2016 - 7:00pm
"Turning Points in Pennsylvania's Disability Rights History: Pennhurst and Deinstitutionalization"
November 14, 2016 -
5:00pm to 8:00pm
Dawn Gideon Lecture Health Care's Newest Code Blue: The Need for Cash Infusion and Restructuring
November 14, 2016 -
12:15pm to 3:00pm
Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine and Psychiatry
November 8, 2016 -
12:30pm to 1:30pm
"Precision Medicine's Contribution to Public Health: An Infectious Disease Case Study"
November 4, 2016 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
2016 Workshop on Exploitation and Coercion
November 4, 2016 (All day) to November 5, 2016 (All day)
"Miscarriage and Intercorporeality"
November 3, 2016 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
“Verbing Faith: An Early Medical Humanist”
November 1, 2016 - 6:00pm
"The Sacrament of Swallowing: The Intersection of Swallowing Disorders and Religious Practice"
October 31, 2016 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
2nd Annual Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition Conference
October 27, 2016 -
8:00am to 4:00pm
"Shades of 'Crazy': Psychological and Public Discourse about Donald Trump's Mental Health"
October 21, 2016 -
12:15pm to 1:30pm
"Making Science Policy at the White House"
October 21, 2016 - 11:00am
ASBH Annual Meeting
October 6, 2016 (All day) to October 9, 2016 (All day)
“Caring for Foreign Bodies: Healthcare’s Role in Immigrant Assimilation, 1890-1945”
September 27, 2016 - 6:00pm
Siddhartha Mukherjee – Author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene
September 26, 2016 - 7:30pm
Reductionism and Integration, Bioethics and Behavior: A Conference Celebrating the Career of Kenneth F. Schaffner
September 23, 2016 (All day) to September 24, 2016 (All day)
Sixth Annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference
September 15, 2016 (All day) to September 16, 2016 (All day)
Rhetoric and Trust in Biomedical Life: Competing Characters in a Breast Cancer Research Misconduct Controversy
June 14, 2016 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
My Own Medicine: Lessons Learned in Route to Remission
June 14, 2016 -
11:00am to 1:00pm
Difficult Conversations: The Art of Breaking Bad News
May 9, 2016 - 8:00am
Globalizing the Human(ities)
May 6, 2016 - 8:00am to May 7, 2016 - 5:00pm
Reproductive Freedom or Freedom from Reproduction? -- An examination of conceptions from different angles
April 20, 2016 -
11:00am to 1:00pm
Humanities in Health Conference
April 7, 2016 - 11:45am
5th International Health Humanities Conference - Cleveland, OH.
April 7, 2016 - 8:00am to April 9, 2016 - 5:00pm
“James D. Hardy and the First Heart and Lung Transplant at the University of Mississippi Medical Center”
April 5, 2016 - 6:00pm
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series: 28th Annual Mark M. Ravitch History of Medicine Lecture
April 5, 2016 - 6:00pm
AMSA Leadership Conference
April 2, 2016 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Annual Medical Ethics Update - Messer Conference: Ethical Issues in Reproductive Health
April 1, 2016 (All day)
"Measuring What Matters"
March 31, 2016 - 12:00pm
"Situating Commercial Surrogacy Bans in Global Context: A Postcolonial Feminist Call for Legalization and Public Funding"
March 28, 2016 - 5:30pm
Lecture of Interest - Sponsored by CEP and the Philosophy Department of CMU
March 28, 2016 -
3:30pm to 5:15pm
Visiting Professor in Medical Humanities
March 27, 2016 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Over My Dead Body: Humanity at the Intersection of Medicine and Culture
March 24, 2016 - 5:00pm
Visiting Professor Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
March 22, 2016 -
7:15am to 8:15am
Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences Grand Rounds
March 22, 2016 - 7:15am
The Ethical Implications of Genomics Information in the Lives of Ordinary People
March 2, 2016 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm
“Seeing Things Differently: Insights on Perception and Disorders of Movement from the Dawn of Motion Pictures”
February 28, 2016 - 6:00pm
Diversity In Practice Speaker Series
February 24, 2016 - 12:00pm
C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series
February 23, 2016 - 6:00pm
Visiting Professor Graduate School of Public Health
February 23, 2016 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Embracing Real Beauty
February 23, 2016 - 12:00pm
In Search of the Clitoris (Susan Wells Lecture)
February 5, 2016 - 3:00pm
The Autonomy of Melancholy and the Anxiety of Persuasion (Colloquium)
February 4, 2016 - 12:30pm
Pediatric Grand Rounds
February 4, 2016 -
8:00am to 9:00am
Why Autism Needs Sociology, and Why Sociology Needs Autism
January 29, 2016 -
2:30pm to 4:00pm
“Origins of the World Health Organization’s Definition of Health: Pittsburgh Threads”
January 24, 2016 - 6:00pm
Tisherman Lecture - Medicine Grand Rounds
January 12, 2016 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm