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“White Trauma: Creating Space for White People’s Vulnerability with The Hopes of Undoing the Perpetuation of Structural/Systemic Racism" | HMC Ethics November Forum
November 13, 2024, 12:00pm

Please join us on Wednesday, November 13th at 12pm with Sherronda Jamerson.

Sherronda Jamerson presents how racism, at its most basic level, is a lens though which people interpret, naturalize, and reproduce inequality. She explains that racism is not a “white” issue it is a systematic/structural issue designed to keep in place white cultural dominance. Learn why this system has caused harm to us all.

OBJECTIVES:

1) Maintaining openness and moving forward.

2) Learn how trauma and stress can invade the body and skew perception.  

Legal Updates | HMC Ethics September Forum
September 11, 2024, 12:00pm

Please join us on Wednesday, Sept 11th with Dr. Patricia Kuszler.

Her presentation will be about Legal Updates regarding Beginning of Life Issues and a small discussion afterwards.

Patricia C. Kuszler joined the faculty of the School of Law at the University of Washington in 1994 and is a Charles I. Stone Professor of Law.

Building Bridges: Uniting Permanent Supportive Housing, Healthcare, and Social Services for Ethical Impact | HMC Ethics Forum
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June 12, 2024, 12:00pm

Learn about what Plymouth Housing is doing to bridge efforts between the housing, healthcare and social services sector to better serve our unhoused community. Learn how structural changes made between these sectors can create greater ethical impact while improving health outcomes, quality of life, and equity.

Objectives:

1. Identify at least 3 major ethical concerns related to integration of health/behavioral health services in PSH.

Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare | Bioethics Grand Rounds
May 30, 2024, 12:00pm

Please join the Bioethics and Humanities Department on Zoom for a Grand Rounds presentation by Nora Kenworthy, PhD: Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare. Dr. Kenworthy will summarize a decade of mixed-methods research on the use of crowdfunding for health care, highlighting core ethical issues with this increasingly popular strategy for helping pay for care.

Reproductive Bioethics: A Local and National Perspective | HMC Ethics Forum
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May 8, 2024, 12:00pm

This presentation is an overview of timeless and emerging topics in reproductive bioethics, with a focus on topics in education and on recent challenges to patient autonomy and practice.

Objectives:

1. Define reproductive bioethics;

2. Describe unique ethical challenges in teaching and practice;

3. Review recent local and national bioethics cases.

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