Entries by Bioethics @WFU

Irregular Migrant Access to Care: Mapping Public Policy Rationales

Article Published By: Mark A. Hall, JD, Center for Bioethics, Health & Society faculty member and Jacob Perrin, MA, University of North Carolina, alumnus of the Graduate Program in Bioethics jointly published an article ” Irregular Migrant Access to Care:  Mapping Public Policy Rationales” – Oxford Journals, Arts & Humanities & Medicine Health, Public Health […]

Exploring Ethics Conference Series – Thursday, 30 April, Ana Iltis, PhD, “Understanding & Communicating Risk in Health Care

Noon-1:05pm Comprehensive Cancer Center, 10th Floor Conference Room, 10C Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC Effective risk communication is essential in clinical care, biomedical research and public health.  Yet there are numerous barriers to communicating risks in ways that patients and research subjects can readily understand and use in making health care choices.  This […]

Bioethics Seminar – 20 April – Life is the thing that thrives: FaithHealth from Memphis to East Winston

JOIN US FOR A BIOETHICS LECTURE Life is the Thing that Thrives: FaithHealth from Memphis to East Winston Monday, 20 April, 5:00-6:00 pm Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium, Room 404 Reynolda Campus, Wake Forest University Gary Gunderson, M.Div., D.Min., D.Div. Vice President of Faith & Health Ministries, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Professor, Department of […]

Human Enhancement Blog Post by Alumnus Michael Tennison, MA

Michael Tennison, MA blogs on the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Law, Brain & Behavior website on the topic of “Tune in, Turn on ….and Train your Brain?”. “In the early 1990s, visionary futurist Terence McKenna hypothesized that two seemingly disparate modalities of consciousness alteration and extension—drugs and computers—might ultimately converge.  If he were still alive […]

Ebola: At Home & Abroad Symposium, 12 & 13 Februrary, 7:00-8:30pm

We invite you to participate in a Symposium addressing….. Ebola: At Home And Abroad February 12th & 13th, 7:00-8:30 pm Kulynych Auditorium, Byrum Welcome Center Wake Forest University To learn more about Ebola please click here. Thursday, 12 February 2015 Introduction: Pat Lord, PhD, Department of Biology, Wake Forest University Ana Iltis, PhD, Director, Center […]