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Past Events

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
The Psychiatric Presidency
October 30, 2018 -
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Discussion of Jasbir Puar’s “Bodies with New Organs, Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled”
October 26, 2018 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Don't Confuse Me With the Facts
October 18, 2018 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
The Future is Now: Bioethics and the Humanities Reimagine an Uncertain World
October 18, 2018 (All day) to October 21, 2018 (All day)
Access, Advocacy, & Empowerment: Health and Well-being of LGBTQ Youth
October 12, 2018 -
11:30am to 5:00pm
Compulsory Sterilization in the Perkins School for the Blind during the Progressive Era
October 11, 2018 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
The Power of Narratives: How the Medical Humanities Impacts Patient Care
October 8, 2018 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Ethics and Aging—A Day-Long Conference
September 29, 2018 (All day)
Spatial Debilities: Slow Life and Disaster Capitalism in Palestine
September 28, 2018 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Informing Informed Consent: Expectations, Outcomes, and Caregivers’ Roles in Reconstructive Transplantation
September 28, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Exploring, Practicing, & Assessing Narrative Research Methods
September 27, 2018 - 3:00pm
When Health Became Wealth: The Progressive Era and the Economic Foundations of Public Health in the United States
September 25, 2018 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Getting to the Soul of the Matter: Engaging Patients in Discussion of Their Religious/Spiritual Beliefs During Medical Encounters
September 24, 2018 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Exploring the Humane Side of Healthcare: Medical Humanities and Ethics in Clinical Context
September 21, 2018 - 12:00pm to September 23, 2018 - 12:00pm
The Father by Florian Zeller (English Adaptation by Christopher Hampton)
September 16, 2018 -
2:00pm to 4:15pm
Approaching Death: Philosophical and Cinematic Perspectives
September 10, 2018 -
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Strategies to Improve Surrogate Decision-Making in ICUs
September 5, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Emerging Diversities in Health Humanities Teaching
June 9, 2018 (All day) to June 11, 2018 (All day)
Designer Babies: Ethics and Evidence
May 18, 2018 -
8:00am to 9:00am
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plant to Imprison "Promiscuous Women"
May 15, 2018 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Mental Health Advance Directives in Pennsylvania
May 10, 2018 -
1:00pm to 4:00pm
How Disability Perspectives Inform Cultural Competence Training and End-of-Life Decision-making
May 10, 2018 -
9:00am to 12:00pm
Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch after Descartes
April 20, 2018 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Just Medicine: It Will Take More than Just Medicine
April 20, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Genetic Engineering: Hubris, Man's/Manifest Destiny, or Ethical Obligation?
April 18, 2018 -
9:30am to 1:30pm
Can Science Measure the "Culture of Health"?
April 16, 2018 -
11:30am to 1:30pm
Bases for Trust in Scientific Expertise
April 13, 2018 -
3:30pm to 4:30pm
Examining the Foundations of Medicine and Religion
April 13, 2018 (All day) to April 15, 2018 (All day)
Ethical and Practical Challenges Associated with Clinical Use of Genetic Testing and Genomic Sequencing
April 12, 2018 -
11:00am to 12:00pm
Cyborg on the Bridge to Nowhere: Problems from the Edge of Life
April 9, 2018 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Healthy U for a Healthy Community: Scholarship in the 'Real World'
April 6, 2018 -
9:00am to 7:00pm
Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and Its Sensational Patient Cases from Barney Clark to Dick Cheney
April 3, 2018 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Thomas Parran: His Career, His Name, and His Legacy—A Symposium
March 29, 2018 -
2:30pm to 4:45pm
Connected Health: Implications and Innovations
March 29, 2018 -
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Cross-disciplinary Conference on Family and Healthy U
March 28, 2018 -
8:00am to 5:00pm
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
March 26, 2018 -
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Fertility Holidays: Global Journeys of Family Formation
March 26, 2018 -
4:30pm to 5:45pm
Health Within Disability: Contradiction, Construct, or Neither?
March 23, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Dealing with Drugs: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues—from the Opioid Epidemic to Budget-Busting Blockbuster Drugs
March 23, 2018 -
8:30am to 4:30pm
Behaving: What's Genetic, What's Not and Why Should We Care?
March 20, 2018 -
4:30pm to 5:30pm
The Dream of a Common Language: A Family's View of Truth Telling in Medicine
March 20, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Straw Into Gold: The Risks, Rewards, and Power of Writing Your Medical Memoir
March 19, 2018 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Your Health: A Sacred Matter
March 14, 2018 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Ethics and Al Systems
March 4, 2018 -
4:30pm to 5:30pm
APPE 27th Annual International Conference
March 1, 2018 (All day) to March 4, 2018 (All day)
Triumph Over Typhus in World War II
February 27, 2018 -
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Visiting Professor in Bioethics and Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
February 27, 2018 -
7:15am to 8:15am
Working Toward the Rights of Intersex People
February 26, 2018 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Healthy Communities: Race, Disability, Gender and First Responder Violence—A Discussion with the Disability Studies Reading Group
February 16, 2018 -
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Ethical Considerations for Research Involving Adolescent Social Media Usage
February 16, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
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 America: 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
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
Implanted Brain Stimulation Devices: Ethical, Legal, and Practical Issue
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
'Autonomous' Decisions and the Ethics of Nudging
March 28, 2017 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Medicine, Poetry, and Healing
March 27, 2017 -
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Medical Humanities Mondays Lecture
March 27, 2017 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Conference on Medicine and Religion
March 24, 2017 - 8:00am to March 26, 2017 - 5:00pm
Bioethics Grand Rounds
March 20, 2017 - 12:00pm
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
Genome-Scale Sequencing as a Screening Tool for Newborns: Ethical and Practical Challenges
February 28, 2017 -
7:15am to 8:15am
Imagining Dementia: Slow Death, Suicide, or Social Transformation?
February 27, 2017 -
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Personalized Public Health? Ethics and Policy Issues in the Application of Genomics to Infectious Disease
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
Achieving Equity and Successfully Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Health and Healthcare of Children
January 26, 2017 -
10:00am to 11:15am
Language Barriers in Healthcare: How to Eliminate Them, and Key Ethical and Policy Issues
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?
December 1, 2016 -
7:30pm to 9:00pm
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
November 25, 2016 - 7:00pm
Turning Points in Pennsylvania's Disability Rights History: Pennhurst and Deinstitutionalization
November 14, 2016 -
5:00pm to 8:00pm
Healthcare's Newest Code Blue: The Need for Cash Infusion and Restructuring
November 14, 2016 -
12:15pm to 3:00pm
Disability Rights and End-of-Life Liberty: Respect for Autonomy & Empowerment of the Individual
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
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 en 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
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
Huey P. Long's Last Operation: When Medicine and Politics Don't Mix
April 5, 2016 - 6:00pm
Difficult End-of-Life Discussions
April 2, 2016 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
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
Beware of iPhones and Artists: Is There an Ethical Duty to Protect Your Own Privacy?
March 28, 2016 -
3:30pm to 5:15pm
Over My Dead Body: Humanity at the Intersection of Medicine and Culture
March 24, 2016 - 5:00pm
ART as Translational Science
March 22, 2016 -
7:15am to 8:15am
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
Differences in Physicians' Verbal and Nonverbal Communication with Black and White Patients at the End of Life
February 24, 2016 - 12:00pm
The Holmes Heart, Alligators, and Maude Abbott
February 23, 2016 - 6:00pm
Using Deliberative Community Engagement to Guide Newborn Screening Policy
February 23, 2016 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
In Search of the Clitoris
February 5, 2016 - 3:00pm
The Autonomy of Melancholy and the Anxiety of Persuasion
February 4, 2016 - 12:30pm
Compassionate Confrontations with Serious Pediatric Illness: Integrating Hopes, Emotions, and Duties
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
Advance Care Planning
January 12, 2016 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm