News & Events
News and Events
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.
September 25, 2024, 5:00pm
Apply to our flexible, online program to become certified for Advanced Training in Healthcare Ethics! Improve patient care, be an ethics committee member, or become an ethics consultant.
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Bioethics Training
July 29, 2024, 8:00am
The annual Summer Seminar is an intensive, interactive introduction to the 'four-box method' of analysis of ethical problems in clinical ethics, developed by Jonsen, Siegler, and Winslade in their book Clinical Ethics. The Seminar also addresses elements of the Core Competencies in Health Care Ethics Consultation and can help attendees prepare for the healthcare ethics consultation certification exam.
September 25, 2024, 5:00pm
Apply to our flexible, online program to become certified for Advanced Training in Healthcare Ethics! Improve patient care, be an ethics committee member, or become an ethics consultant.
Program dates: