Dr. Nancy Jecker was awarded the 2025 Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) International BRIDGE Fellowship. The fellowship supports former JSPS International Fellows with an eye to sustaining and growing collaborative research between American and Japanese scholars.
This interdisciplinary symposium, co-sponsored by the University of Ghana’s Department of Philosophy & Classics and the University of Washington’s Department of Bioethics & Humanities, will bring together scholars from Africa and the West to examine how personhood emerges and its implications for the moral status of humans and nonhumans, including AI, animals and nature.
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.
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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!
Tuesday, Jan. 14, Drs. Amy Hinterberger, Tim Brown, & Susan Trinidad will speak at the UW’s Society + Technology Salon Series on Genetics and Bioethics.
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.
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.
About the Speaker:
Harborview Ethics Forums are held the second Wednesday of each month, although this schedule is subject to change. If you have suggestions for future forums, please direct your comments to: Dr. Diane Timberlake, Department of Family Medicine, Box 358732, 206/520-2441. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at 206.543.6450/V, 206.546.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264/FAX, or email dso@uw.edu.
