Past News and Events

Ceremony of Life with Annette Humphrey | Indigenous Speaker Series
November 22, 2024, 12:00pm

The Indigenous Speaker Series provides a platform for dialogues about Indigenous people’s cultural and traditional lived experiences, hosted in partnership by the University of Washington - Tacoma, C.U.R.E (Clean Up the River Environment), Climate Land Leaders, and the Salish Sea Research Center.

It was great hosting our BH Minors at the BH Department's Fall Open House!
November 21, 2024, 3:30pm

UW School of Medicine Bioethics & Humanities Department

Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? Medicine, Chaplains and Healing the Whole Person
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.

“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.

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