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.
Past News and Events
March 17, 2025, 7:15am
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.
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
January 22, 2025, 5:00pm
Dr.
January 22, 2025, 5:00pm
Seattle-based @VariantBio recently announced plans for benefit-sharing with Indigenous communities that have contributed genetic information to their drug development resea