The Department of Bioethics & Humanities invites you to the 35th Annual Summer Seminar in Health Care Ethics. We will host the conference online this year with synchronous and asynchronous material.
SUMMER SEMINAR COURSE DESCRIPTION
Speaker:
Lara Strick, MD, MSc
Clinical Associate Professor, UW Medicine
Corrections Program Director,
Mountain West AIDS Education & Training Center (MWAETC)
Objectives:
Cardioethics of Heart Procurement after Cardiac Death
Speakers:
James Kirkpatrick, MD
Professor of Medicine, UW Cardiology and Bioethics and Humanities
Denise Dudzinski, PhD, HEC-C
Professor, UW Bioethics and Humanities
Jay Pal, MD
Professor of Medicine, UW Surgical Director of Heart
Transplantations
Explores the ethical foundations, principles and concepts, and U.S. laws related to the conduct of research with human subjects. Required for graduate students in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine. 3 Credits. Offered: jointly with LAW H 536; W.
Understanding race and racism, their applicability to medicine, and their effects on marginalized communities. Explores the necessities of critiquing and bettering medicine through a Critical Race Theory lens in order to eliminate bias and decrease health disparities within marginalized communities. 1 credit. Offered: jointly with FAMED 550; Sp.
Explores how social inequality affects both public sentiment and public health measures during epidemics. Students develop a critical understanding of how enduring lines of social inequality shape public sentiment, medical knowledge, and public health policies during epidemics. Recommended: coursework in either bioethics and humanities, sociology, or public health. 3 credits. Offered: W.
