UW, Department of Medical History&Ethics

May 12, 2006

CHARLES W. BODEMER LECTURE
Open to the community, this annual lecture, honoring Dr. Charles W. Bodemer--the founder and Chair of the Department of Biomedical History from 1967-1985--covers topics in the areas of medical ethics and medical history.

Jane Maienschein, PhD

Thursday, April 17th, 2007, 3:30 p.m.
Reception immediately following
Health Sciences Center, T733
University of Washington

From Translational to Transplantational in the History of Stem Cell Biology

In the push for “Translational Science,” we sometimes forget the complexities of translating benchside research to the bedside. This can be especially problematic in the promises for translational results that are presented to the public in hopes of generating support. To get stem cells into the clinic, we’ll clearly have to transplant cells. What have we learned from a century of research on transplantation, and what sets of assumptions have evolved with respect to this work? Maienschein argues that history helps give perspective on current debates and can remind us of potentially promising paths not taken and of the constraints of past assumptions made.

Dr. Jane Maienschein is Regents’ Professor, President’s Professor, and Parents Association ProfessorDirector, Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences. Dr. Maienschein specializes in the history and philosophy of biology and the way that biology, bioethics, and biopolicy play out in society. Focusing on research in embryology, genetics, and cytology, Dr Maienschein combines detailed analysis of the epistemological standards, theories, laboratory practices and experimental approaches with study of the people, institutions, and changing social, political, and legal context in which science thrives. She loves teaching and is committed to public education about biology and its human dimensions. Jane Maienschein has received numerous faculty and teaching awards, including the 2000 Parents Association Professor of the Year Chair and a Regents’ Professorship in 2002.

To view a video of the 2008 lecture by Dr. Jane Maienschein click here.

Previous Bodemer Lectures:

Year	Presenter	Topic
1988	Albert Jonsen	Humanities are the Hormones
1989	Allan M. Brandt	AIDS: From Social History to Social Policy
1990	Belding Scribner & Larry Churchill	Rationing Medical Care: The Past and The Future
1991	James Whorton	Sickness and Civilization: The Role of Constipation in Modern Medical Culture
1992	Judith Walzer Leavitt	Personal Freedom v. Public Safety
1993	Alexander Morgan Capron	Is Discrimination Ever a Good Thing? Health Insurance and the New Genetics
1994	Baruch A Brody	The Clotbusters: Thrombolytic Therapy as a Case in the Ethics of new Durg Development
1995	Gerald N. Grob	Mental Health Policy in America: Retrospect & Prospect
1996	Eric T. Juengst	Experimenting With Ethics: The Human Genome Project, the NIH, and the Lightening Rod
1997	David M. Eisenberg	Alternative Medical Therapies: Shared Decision Making
1999	William J. Winslade	Traumatic Brain Injury: Medical Success & Social Failures, Where Do We Go From Here?
2003	William Foege	Smallpox Vaccination: Responsible Public Health in Troubled Times
2005	E. Haavi Morreim	Ethical Issues in Research with Surgically Implanted Devices: Devices Ain't Drugs!
2006	Barron Lerner	When the Famous Get Sick and the Sick Get Famous: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine
2007	Albert Jonsen	The Wide, Wide World of Bioethics: Cultural Sensitivity and Ethical Relativism
2008	Jane Maienschein	From Translational to Transplantational in the History of Stem Cell Biology