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Save the Date! Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics
March 31, 2025, 7:00am

We have a new director! The Bioethics & Humanities Department is happy to introduce our new Summer Seminar Program Director, Noa T Brazg, Phd, MSW, MPH!

Join us this August for 3.5 days of interactive virtual learning at our summer seminar in healthcare ethics. Look out for more information coming soon!

 

 

 

 

Dr. Laura Webster Returns to Teach Spring Courses!
March 24, 2025, 6:30pm

We are pleased to share that Dr.

Drs. Nancy Jecker and Caesar Atuire Publish New Book: What Is a Person?: Untapped Insights from Africa
March 17, 2025, 7:15am

The Department of Bioethics and Humanities is pleased to share that faculty member Dr. Nancy Jecker and affiliate faculty member Dr. Caesar Atuire have a new book with Oxford University Press: What Is a Person?: Untapped Insights from Africa.

Kidney Transplant Candidate Selection: Compliance, Adherence, and Person-Centeredness | HMC Ethics March Forum
March 12, 2025, 12:00pm

Please join us on Wednesday, March 12th with Dr. Catherine Butler, MD MA.

This presentation will relate how patients with kidney failure are required to demonstrate adherence to clinical recommendations as a criterion for kidney transplant candidacy. During, she will examine implications of this requirement for person-centered and equitable care.

The Weight of Bias: Anti-Fat Bias, Health and Healthcare | HMC Ethics February Forum
February 12, 2025, 12:00pm

Please join us on February, 12th with Dr. Lisa Erlanger, MD. 

Her presentation will examine anti-fat bias as a structural determinant of health disparities, and offer an evidence-based framework for promoting the health and wellbeing of larger bodied patients. 

OBJECTIVES:

1. Recognize the impacts of anti-fat bias on health

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