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Past Events

Discussion of Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era by Matt H. Rafalow
November 13, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Ethics & Opioids Part II: Racial and Socioeconomic Considerations
November 12, 2020 -
6:30pm to 7:45pm
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Health Care Human Again
November 12, 2020 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Neglected Ethical Issues in Biobanking
November 12, 2020 - 2:00pm
There Will Be Blood Boys: Regenerative Medicine, Model Organisms and New Human Biologies
November 12, 2020 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
A Framework for Collectively-defined Ethics Standards for Independent Researchers and Community Bio Groups
November 12, 2020 - 12:00pm
Machines That Learn: Online Workshop
November 11, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920
November 10, 2020 -
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Unraveling Vaccine Science, Faith, and Public Discourse
November 10, 2020 -
9:00am to 12:30pm
Ethics of AI in Healthcare
November 9, 2020 -
2:00pm to 3:15pm
Digging in the Archives, Overturning Assumptions
October 30, 2020 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Ethics & Opioids Part I: Ethical and Effective Responses to the Overdose Crisis
October 30, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Making Sense of Maas: Understanding the Expanded Duty to Warn in Pennsylvania
October 30, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Who Gets the Data?
October 29, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
AI & Speculative Fictions: Online Workshop
October 28, 2020 - 3:45pm
Discussion of Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era by Matt H. Rafalow
October 27, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
A New Fine-Grained Triage Algorithm for COVID-19
October 23, 2020 -
9:00am to 10:00am
The Complex Ethics of Reopening America
October 22, 2020 -
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Data and the University: A Transdisciplinary Conversation
October 22, 2020 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Caring for the Developmentally Disabled: An Ethical Approach to Treatment Decisions
October 21, 2020 -
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Technology and Privacy: The Right to Be Forgotten
October 20, 2020 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die
October 16, 2020 - 7:00pm
In the Media: Covid-19 Vaccine Development Q&A
October 14, 2020 - 7:00pm
Algorithms & Social Spaces: Online Workshop
October 14, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
COVID, Sports & Ethics
October 12, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Justice and Flourishing in a Pluralistic World
October 12, 2020 (All day) to October 18, 2020 (All day)
Palliative Research Center Virtual Retreat
October 9, 2020 -
8:00am to 12:00pm
When Breath Becomes Air: A Conversation with Lucy Kalanithi
October 6, 2020 -
8:30pm to 9:30pm
The Daring Young Surgeons Who Pioneered Heart Surgery
September 29, 2020 -
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Self-Consciousness After Split-Brain Surgery
September 25, 2020 -
3:30pm to 5:30pm
10th Annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference
September 24, 2020 (All day) to September 26, 2020 (All day)
Virtual tour of Trevor Paglen: Opposing Geometries
September 17, 2020 -
7:30pm to 8:30pm
Teaching Through Trauma in the Age of COVID
September 17, 2020 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Flourishing in the Wake of COVID-19
September 17, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Ethical Obligations When Caring for Unrepresented Patients
September 16, 2020 -
3:00pm to 3:30pm
Keepers of the House: Film and Discussion with Producer Neil Prose, MD
September 14, 2020 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
INTERSECT@CMU Virtual Conference Series, COVID-19: Learning Into Action
September 11, 2020 -
1:00pm to 3:30pm
Pandemic Play: Collegiate Athletes, Justice, and COVID-19
September 9, 2020 -
2:00pm to 3:30pm
COVID Vaccine Research & Deployment: Reconciling Speed & Safety
August 28, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Pandemic Policies and Practices: A Conversation about the Ethical Challenges of COVID-19 in Rural Communities
August 18, 2020 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Health, Racism, and This Moment in Time
August 13, 2020 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Inequality, Vulnerability, and Health Justice: Learning from the Pandemic
August 5, 2020 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Pandemic Policies and Practices: A Conversation about Lives and Livelihoods: Evaluating What’s at Stake in Reopening
August 4, 2020 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
The Importance of Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
July 29, 2020 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Health Justice and Equity in the COVID-19 Pandemic
July 29, 2020 - 11:00am
Reading Group: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the 21st Century by Dorothy Roberts
July 24, 2020 -
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Understanding Public Health Emergency Law in the Era of COVID-19
July 24, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Ethics Consultations during COVID
July 22, 2020 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Re-Purposing Research Samples During a Pandemic: Bridging Public Health Ethics and Research Ethics Frameworks
July 21, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Pandemic Policies and Practices: A Conversation about Ethical Challenges for Evidence-Based Obstetrics during COVID-19
July 21, 2020 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
What are the Obligations of the State during a Pandemic?
July 15, 2020 -
6:00pm to 7:30pm
The Lost Art of Dying: Ethical Considerations in Facing our Mortality
July 14, 2020 -
6:30pm to 7:45pm
Thinking the Pandemic: Philosophical Perspectives – Political Philosophy
July 9, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:15pm
When the Well Runs Dry: Compassion Fatigue and the Work of Caregiving – 4
July 9, 2020 -
11:30am to 1:00pm
The Past as Prologue: Lessons of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
July 8, 2020 -
3:30pm to 5:00pm
Thinking the Pandemic: Philosophical Perspectives – Philosophy of Science
July 8, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:15pm
Pandemic Policies and Practices: A Conversation Allocating Scarce COVID-19 Medications: The Case for Increasing Disadvantaged Groups’ Access
July 7, 2020 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Bioethics during COVID-19
July 3, 2020 - 9:00am to July 4, 2020 - 12:30pm
Thinking the Pandemic: Philosophical Perspectives – Ethics and Emotions
July 2, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:15pm
When the Well Runs Dry: Compassion Fatigue and the Work of Caregiving – 3
July 2, 2020 -
11:30am to 1:00pm
Thinking the Pandemic: Philosophical Perspectives – Philosophy of Mind and Psychology
July 1, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:15pm
When the Well Runs Dry: Compassion Fatigue and the Work of Caregiving – 2
June 25, 2020 -
11:30am to 1:00pm
Learning to Treat COVID-19: Clinical Trials and Developing Therapeutics During a Pandemic
June 24, 2020 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Holes in the Safety Net: The Forgotten Needs of People with Disabilities Under Quarantine
June 24, 2020 -
11:00am to 1:30pm
Pandemic Policies and Practices: A Conversation about Ethical Issues arising with Use of Telemedicine during this Pandemic
June 23, 2020 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
15th World Congress of Bioethics
June 19, 2020 (All day) to June 21, 2020 (All day)
When the Well Runs Dry: Compassion Fatigue and the Work of Caregiving – 1
June 18, 2020 -
11:30am to 1:00pm
13th World Congress of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
June 18, 2020 (All day)
On the Margins: Epidemic and the Disenfranchised—A Roundtable Seminar with Karen Flynn, Maureen Lux, Richard McKay, and Kevin Siena
June 15, 2020 - 2:00pm
30 Years of the Genome: Integrating and Applying ELSI Research
June 15, 2020 - 10:30am to June 16, 2020 - 4:30pm
Pandemic Policies and Practices: A Conversation about Ethical Concerns of People with Disabilities
June 9, 2020 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Re-Opening the Nation: Should We Turn to Immunity Testing?
May 28, 2020 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Disclosure and Apology After Medical Error or Adverse Events: Deep Dive into Error Disclosure
May 27, 2020 -
9:00am to 11:00am
Pandemic Policies and Practices: A Conversation Legal Liability, Immunity, and Retaliation during the Pandemic
May 26, 2020 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Responses to Covid-19: Legal and Ethical Perspectives
May 21, 2020 -
6:15pm to 8:15pm
Re-Opening the Nation: Privacy, Surveillance, and Digital Tools for Contact Tracing
May 18, 2020 - 11:00am
Pandemic Policies and Practices: A Conversation on Ethically Allocating Scarce Resources
May 12, 2020 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health
May 8, 2020 - 9:00am to May 9, 2020 - 3:30pm
Promoting Medical Professionalism Amidst COVID-19
May 1, 2020 -
12:00pm to 5:15pm
Crisis Triage and People with Disabilities: Historical Lessons for a Time of COVID
April 23, 2020 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Re-opening the Nation: What Values Should Guide Us?
April 21, 2020 - 11:00am
Ethical Issues for Children in the COVID Pandemic: Racial Disparities and Their Impact on Disease Burden
April 20, 2020 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Disability and Experience: A Workshop with Shaun Gallagher
April 17, 2020 -
9:30am to 4:00pm
Health and Human Rights in the Era of COVID-19: What are the Ethical Issues?
April 16, 2020 -
6:15pm to 7:45pm
COVID-19—Rhetorics of Infection, Resources of Resistance
April 13, 2020 -
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Coronavirus Conversations: Rationing, Shortages, and Triage: Pandemics and Medical Decision Making
April 13, 2020 -
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Organ Transplantation – Past, Present, and Future
April 7, 2020 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Q & A with Danielle Ofri: A moderated discussion about writing
April 3, 2020 - 10:00am
New Directions in Bioethics Seminar
April 3, 2020 (All day) to April 4, 2020 (All day)
Medical Error: The Untold Story in Medicine
April 2, 2020 - 7:00pm
The Complex Politics of Sleeping Sickness Control: Research and Treatment-Seeking around Lake Victoria
April 2, 2020 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
New Sites of Healing: African Independent Churches and the advent of Religious Birthing Home
March 30, 2020 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Q & A with Dawn Raffel: A moderated discussion about writing
March 27, 2020 - 10:00am
When the Well Runs Dry: Compassion Fatigue and the Work of Professional Caregiving
March 27, 2020 -
9:00am to 4:00pm
A Doctor in Time: Making History Matter to a Modern Audience
March 26, 2020 - 7:00pm
Medical Ethics 2020: Ethical Challenges of Established and Emerging Medical Technologies
March 20, 2020 -
8:30am to 4:30pm
State of the Science in Hospice and Palliative Care Research Symposium and Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care
March 20, 2020 (All day) to March 22, 2020 (All day)
The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice & Knowledge
March 6, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Postgenomic Condition: Truth, Race and Justice After the Genome
March 5, 2020 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Science and Justice: The Trouble, the Promise, and a Training Program
March 5, 2020 -
3:00pm to 4:45pm
Pitt 2020 Pre-Health Summit —featuring hospice and palliative care physician BJ Miller, MD
March 1, 2020 -
8:30am to 3:00pm
Advancing Ethical Practice: Exploring the Gray Areas
February 26, 2020 (All day) to February 28, 2020 (All day)
Dr. Charles Champion and the Evolution of African American Independent Compounding, Alternative, and Herbal Pharmacy Practice in the South
February 25, 2020 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Poetry, Healing, and Helping Others Heal
February 24, 2020 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Moral Disagreement is Special
February 21, 2020 -
3:30pm to 4:45pm
29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
February 20, 2020 (All day) to February 23, 2020 (All day)
A Kantian Approach to Climate Justice and the Reasons Why We Do Not Act
February 18, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Writing about Intellectual Disability
February 10, 2020 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Verge
February 6, 2020 (All day) to February 16, 2020 (All day)
Poison Garden: Poisoning in Agatha Christie's Literature
January 28, 2020 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Cryptic Effects at a Distance: Constructing Causal Claims in Fetal Epigenetic Programming Research
January 17, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Maternal Imprint: Gender, Heredity, and the Biosocial Body
January 16, 2020 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Sex Contextualism
January 16, 2020 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
The Politics of Disease Control—A Book Symposium with Author Mari Webel
January 13, 2020 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
The Stories of MeTooSTEM.com
January 8, 2020 -
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Conscientious Objection in Critical Care Medicine: Ethical and Conceptual Challenges
December 18, 2019 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Genomic Medicine
December 10, 2019 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Promoting Citizen Science, Protecting Public Interests
December 9, 2019 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Ethical Issues in Caring for the Young and the Old: Similarities, Differences, and Challenges
December 6, 2019 -
8:30am to 4:00pm
Health Justice Night powered by Pechakucha
December 4, 2019 -
5:30pm to 7:30pm
The Role of Non-Kin in Providing Elder Care: A Forgotten History in Ghana
November 16, 2019 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Did Testosterone Cause the Crash of 2008? Science and Myths of Gender, Social Class, and Risk
November 14, 2019 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Testosterone and Human Aggression: Methods and Narratives that Link Race, Class, Gender, and Violence
November 14, 2019 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Discussion of Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences by Rebecca Jordan-Young
November 6, 2019 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Medical Education in 19th Century America: Jefferson and Flexner Revisited
November 5, 2019 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Shopping for Healthcare: Can We Be Good Consumers?
November 5, 2019 -
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Pittsburgh’s Inequality Across Gender and Race
November 2, 2019 -
8:30am to 1:30pm
Disability and the Future: A Conversation with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson on Conserving and Promoting Human Diversity
October 25, 2019 -
5:30pm to 8:00pm
The Opioid Dilemma
October 25, 2019 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Museums and Medicine: Divining Warhol, Drawing and Developing Clinical Skills
October 24, 2019 -
9:00am to 12:00pm
Remembrance and Resilience: How Bioethics and Humanities Can Move Us Forward
October 24, 2019 (All day) to October 27, 2019 (All day)
The Postgenomic Condition: Truth, Race and Justice After the Genome
October 18, 2019 - 1:45pm
What Revolution? Public Health and the Push to Personalize
October 18, 2019 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Celebrities, Science, and Pseudoscience: Tackling Misinformation in the Era of Health Noise
October 16, 2019 -
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Neither Seen nor Heard: The Culture and Consequence of Clinical Dismissal
October 10, 2019 -
5:15pm to 6:45pm
Building Trauma-Informed and Resilient Communities: Continuing the Conversation
October 4, 2019 -
9:00am to 1:30pm
NEXT TO NORMAL
October 3, 2019 (All day) to October 13, 2019 (All day)
Discussion with the author of The Brain’s Body
September 27, 2019 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
How to Wait: Temporal Narratives of Medicalized Gender Transition
September 26, 2019 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Chronopolitics and the scientization of a gender “disorder”
September 26, 2019 -
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Transforming Women's Health
September 24, 2019 -
8:00am to 6:00pm
Clients, Clinicians, Communications, and Close Connections: Meet the Authors of Books About Mental Illness and Relationships
September 20, 2019 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Medical Humanities Conference 2019
September 19, 2019 (All day) to September 20, 2019 (All day)
The Arc of the Heart: What the History of the Heart Teaches us About its Future
September 17, 2019 -
7:00am to 8:00am
How the Arts Helped Me Find Meaning in Death
September 16, 2019 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Global Health Governance (specific title to be announced)
September 13, 2019 -
3:30pm to 4:45pm
Anatomy of Antisemitism: Jews, Cadavers, and the Politics of Medical Discourse in East Central Europe
September 13, 2019 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Connection: An Inclusive Community Yoga Class
September 7, 2019 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Ethical Issues in Uterine Transplantation and Innovative Research in Reproductive Medicine
September 5, 2019 -
11:00am to 5:15pm
Asocial Design Yields Antisocial Agents
August 30, 2019 -
1:30pm to 2:30pm
All the Names They Used for God
June 21, 2019 -
7:00pm to 9:00pm
15th World Congress of Bioethics
June 19, 2019 (All day) to June 21, 2019 (All day)
The Art of Sight with Dr. José-Alain Sahel
June 13, 2019 -
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Marjorie Prime
June 10, 2019 (All day) to June 30, 2019 (All day)
Communicating About Values and Valuing Communication in Healthcare
May 14, 2019 -
8:30am to 4:15pm
Healthcare Ethics at the Bedside: From Theory to Practice
April 16, 2019 -
8:30am to 4:00pm
Global Health Inequities & Infectious Diseases Workshop
April 12, 2019 -
10:00am to 6:00pm
Burden of Genius
April 12, 2019 (All day) to April 18, 2019 (All day)
Pernkopf to Present Day: Nazi Anatomists and Ethical Implications of Their Work
April 11, 2019 - 4:00pm
Medicine and Human Flourishing
April 10, 2019 -
9:30am to 11:30am
Self Reflected: Deeply Fusing Art and Science to Create the World's Most Complex Artistic Depiction of the Human Brain
April 3, 2019 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
The North American Invasion of the “Beatles” of Congenital Heart Disease: Maude Abbott, Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Henry Banhson’s Trips to Europe
April 2, 2019 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Queer Affect in Crip Landscapes: Disability, Desire, Devastation
April 1, 2019 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Defining the Neglected Tropical Diseases: Research, Development, and Global Health Equity, 1970-present
April 1, 2019 - 9:00am to April 2, 2019 - 5:00pm
Ethics of Seeking and Assessing "Quality of Life"
March 29, 2019 -
8:30am to 4:30pm
"My Pain is Always with Me": Medicine and Faithful Responses to Suffering
March 29, 2019 (All day) to March 31, 2019 (All day)
Medical Bondage and the Birth of American Gynecology
March 28, 2019 - 4:30pm
Pre-Registration Deadline: The Ethics of Seeking and Assessing "Quality of Life"
March 27, 2019 - 5:00pm
Gender Before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context
March 21, 2019 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Intersectionality in STS: Boundary Object or Insurgent Practice?
March 21, 2019 -
2:30pm to 3:45pm
One Health and the Future of Food
March 13, 2019 (All day) to March 14, 2019 (All day)
Family Guide to Mental Illness and the Law: A Practical Handbook
March 6, 2019 - 4:30pm
Ethical Challenges in Pediatric Genomic Sequencing
March 1, 2019 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
NextGen Sequencing of the Next Generation: Ethical Issues in Pediatric Genomic Sequencing
February 28, 2019 -
8:00am to 9:00am
28th Annual Conference of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
February 28, 2019 (All day) to March 3, 2019 (All day)
Leeches: From Antiquity to FDA Approved Medical Device
February 26, 2019 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Advancing Ethical Practice: Exploring the Gray Areas
February 26, 2019 (All day) to February 28, 2019 (All day)
Racial Reconciliation, Institutional Morality, and the Social Life of DNA
February 21, 2019 -
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Family Conferences in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Should We Follow the Guidelines?
February 13, 2019 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Salk: The Man Behind the Vaccine
February 5, 2019 -
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Medical Humanities Tours the Carnegie International
January 31, 2019 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Does Malpractice Liability Make Healthcare Safer?
January 29, 2019 -
1:30pm to 3:00pm
Patients' Experiences of Medical Error Disclosure and Reconciliation
January 29, 2019 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
How John Snow’s Understanding of Inhalation Toxicology led to his Seminal Involvement in Epidemiology and Anesthesiology
January 22, 2019 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Opioid Use Disorder among Pregnant People in Jails: Implementing medication assisted treatment within carceral systems
January 15, 2019 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Reproductive Health, Reproductive Justice, and Incarceration in the US
January 15, 2019 -
7:15am to 8:15am
Sex, Surveillance, and Social Control: Casting “Promiscuous” Women as Threats to National Security, and Incarcerating Them
January 10, 2019 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Family Matters in an Aging America
January 10, 2019 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Balancing a Healthy Body and a Healthy Mind Through the Combination of Buddhism and Medicine
December 5, 2018 - 5:30pm
Ethical Communication Regarding Medication Use in Pregnancy
December 4, 2018 -
7:15am to 8:15am
On Half-Blood, Half-Breeds, and "The So Called Purity of Blood": An Examination of the Role of Genetics in the Magical World of Harry Potter
December 3, 2018 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Ethical Implications of Intervening in Observational Research with Elderly and Disabled People
November 30, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
The Patient Experience (tentative title)
November 28, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Reading and discussion of In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope (2017) by Rana Awdish, MD, FCCP, with the author and moderated by Ritu Thamman, MD
November 28, 2018 -
9:00am to 10:00am
Women in Medicine & Science Forum
November 27, 2018 (All day) to November 28, 2018 (All day)
Discussion of In Shock: How nearly dying made me a better intensive care doctor (2017) by Rana Awdish, MD, FCCP, facilitated by Ritu Thamman, MD
November 26, 2018 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Forced Sterilization in America and the Work of Helen Rodriguez Trias
November 14, 2018 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Navy Medicine’s Trial by Fire: 6 June 1944
November 6, 2018 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Ethicial Implications of Research Partnerships
November 6, 2018 -
11:30am to 1:00pm
“Small Data”: How community engagement will disrupt the current human subjects research ethics paradigm
November 5, 2018 -
2:00pm to 4:00pm