An exploration of the intersection of biotechnology, ethics, language, religion, and science is both timely and critically important. This national forum will provide a location for leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss the vital topic of how language is shaping medical ethics, religion, and competing visions of our biotechnological future.

Interview with Nancy King, JD, Co-Director for the Center for Bioethics, Health & Society and a speaker at the conference:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzCXUkt1ik.

9:00 AM April 12^th – 7:00 PM April 13th

Wake Forest University, Benson University Center, Pugh Auditorium.

 To register please go to the following link:  http://afterthegenome.provost.wfu.edu/.

SCARRED FOR LIFE: The Legacy of Forced Sterilization at Home and Abroad

Film Screenings (7:00-9:00, DeTamble Auditorium, Tribble Hall)

Wednesday, March 20: Gattaca (dir. Andrew Niccol, 1997)

Wednesday, March 27: Tomorrow’s Children (dir. Crane Wilbur, 1934)  

SCARRED FOR LIFE: The Legacy of Forced Sterilization at Home and Abroad

4 – 5 April 2013

Location: Annenberg Auditorium, Carswell, Wake Forest University

Thursday April 4, 2013:  Focus on North Carolina

5:00-5:45: Welcome and general introduction.

5:45-7:00: Panel Discussion and Reception

Simone Caron, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, WFU, a leading expert on reproductive history

Kevin Begos, journalist who has written extensively on NC’s eugenics program in the Winston-Salem Journal’s 2002 series Against Their Will and a 2011 series in the Indy in Chapel Hill

Charmaine Fuller Cooper, former director of the NC Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation established by the then Gov. Bev Perdue in 2010 to provide justice and compensate victims who were forcibly sterilized by the State of North Carolina

Friday April 5, 2013, Focus on National and International Contexts

2:00-2:50: Dan Kevles, Professor of History, Yale University—A review of the history of the eugenics movement in the United States and its implications for the future of genetics.

3:00: Panel Discussion and Reception

Angela Kocze, Hungarian visiting Fulbright scholar with Women’s and Gender Studies

Adam Stein, North Carolina lawyer who filed suit on behalf of sterilization victims in the 1970s

Nancy King, Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, WFU School of Medicine and Co-Director, Center for Bioethics, Health and Society

Dan Kevles; Professor of history, Yale University   

For the further information please contact Dr. Wanda Balzano, Program Director & Assoc. Professor, Women & Gender Studies - balzanow@wfu.edu, or Phoebe Zerwick, Lecturer, The Writing Program, Dept of English – zerwicp@wfu.edu.

Hank Greely, JD, Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics at Stanford University       

5:00 – 6:00 pm, Thursday 28th March 2013                     

Room 308, Greene Hall, Reynolda Campus, Wake Forest University

Hank Greely, JD, Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics at Stanford University

Thursday, 28th March 2013

12:00 – 1:00 PM

G28,  G Floor Hanes Building, Wake Forest School of Medicine.

To Register please contact Andrea Nance:  anance@wakehealth.edu

Kathryn Montgomery, Julia & David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics Professor of Medicine,  Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Doctors, like all humans, exercise their reasoning and judgment through stories, not merely through numbers.  Dr. Montgomery draws on her exploration of clinical thinking, from her books Doctors’ Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge (Princeton 1991) & How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine (Oxford 2006), to examine clinical reasoning in medicine.

Attendees are invited (but not required) to read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet” before the seminar.  The story may be downloaded, at no cost, as an ebook or PDF, from project Gutenberg <www.gutenberg.org>.

Thursday, 28^th February – 5:00-6:00 pm

Greene Hall, Room 308, Reynolda Campus, Wake Forest University

Reception to follow.

Ana Iltis, PhD and Nancy King, JD, Co-Directors of the Center for Bioethics, Health & Society edited a group of articles in the Winter 2012 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, published by the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.   

The articles resulted from the Center for Bioethic ’s sponsoring of the November 2011 “Research Ethics Conference:  Re-Examining Key Concerns”.  James H. Jones was the keynote speaker in honor of the 30th anniversary of the publication of his book “Bad Blood”.

Jay Foster, D.Min, BCC, NC LPC, Associate Director,

Department of Chaplaincy & Pastoral Education, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

5:00 – 6:00 PM

Room 308, Greene Hall, Reynolda Campus, Wake Forest University

Reception to Follow.

Please click on the following link to read the review published by JAMA:  Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, And Social Responsiblity

Presented by bioethics graduate students, directed by Professor Richard Robeson

This case study is inspired by events surrounding the 1989 creation and implementation of the Medical University of South Carolina’s policy of drug-testing pregnant women suspected of crack cocaine use.  The case considers a number of ethical questions, including involuntary urine drug screening for patients, substance abuse treatment imperatives, maternal-fetal conflict, and the appropriateness of involving the criminal justice system to implement healthcare policy.

Performable case studies are dramatic readings created from bioethics case prompts, research, and creative engagement with the human, ethical, social, and policy implications of the facts and issues under consideration.  They are designed to promote discussion; therefore, audience discussion after the reading is an integral part of the performance.

7:00-8:00 pm  -  Reception to follow.

Room 409, Benson University Center, Reynolda Campus, Wake Forest University