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January 10, 2025, 9:00am

We’re thrilled to announce that Amy Hinterberger, PhD, from the Department of Bioethics and Humanities, will give a lightning talk highlighting the department’s work on technology and healthcare ethics for the Society + Technology at UW Inaugural Convening today, Friday, January 10th! 

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January 6, 2025, 8:15pm

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of James Kirkpatrick, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Bioethics and Humanities in the University of Washington’s School of Medicine. He joined the Department of Medicine’s Cardiology Division in 2015 and served as an Ethics Consultant for the UW Ethics Consultation Service. The Department of Bioethics and Humanities appointed Dr.

November 21, 2024, 3:30pm

UW School of Medicine Bioethics & Humanities Department

November 19, 2024, 12:00pm

Dr. Klitzman will draw on in-depth interview research to examine how, given the political and religious polarization in our nation today, patients and family members from a wide range of backgrounds -- from evangelical to agnostic, atheist and 'nothing in particular' -- seek and find sources of meaning, connection and hope when facing serious medical illness.

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.