Entries by Bioethics @WFU

Modern Legal Scholarship: A Guide to Producing and Publishing Scholarly and Professional Writing

Christine Nero Coughlin, JD, Professor and Director, Legal Research & Writing Program, School of Law & Faculty member of the Bioethics Graduate Program at Wake Forest University. This book, published through Carolina Academic Press, guides students through the scholarly writing process–from an idea’s inception to the final publication of an article.  It provides a step-by-step […]

Virtual Lecture: “Ethics for the Anthropocene”.

Date: September 29, 2020 Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm Presenter: Larry R. Churchill, PhD Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics, Emeritus Vanderbilt University The anthropocene is the current geological age – the period in which human activity is the dominant influence on climate and the environment. Addressing climate change requires an ethical transition from “me” […]

Mark Hall, JD, WFU, publishes “Disease Control, Civil Liberties, and Mass Testing – Calibrating Restrictions during Covid-19

Mark Hall, JD, Co-Director of Bioethics Graduate Program and School of Law Professor at Wake Forest University, has just had a short article released by The New England Journal of Medicine,  in which a Stanford colleague (David Studdert, LLB, DSc) and Mark Hall discuss what will be needed to sensibly lift/relax and possibly reimpose existing […]

Welcome to Nicholas Colgrove, PhD, Post Doc Fellow

Nicholas (Nick) Colgrove, PhD, is joining as a Post Doc Fellow to the Graduate Program in Bioethics and the Department of Philosophy. Nick recently completed his PhD in philosophy at Baylor University, where he spent the last four years teaching courses in bioethics. As a teacher, he is especially invested in crafting courses and seminars […]

The Affordable Care Act: Is It Working or Failing?

Date: November 1, 2016 Presenter: Mark Hall, JD, Director of Health Law and Policy Program, Fred D. & Elizabeth L. Turnage Professor of Law; Founding Director, Center for Bioethics, Health & Society, and co-director, the Master’s degree program in Bioethics, Wake Forest University Time 5:00-6:00 PM – Refreshments to follow Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium, […]

Recognitions and Relationships: Solidarity & the Moral Imagination

Date: October 11, 2016 Presenter: Bruce Jennings, MA,   Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy & Center for Biomedical Ethics & Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Senior Fellow, Center for Humans & Nature; Fellow & Senior Advisor, The Hastings Center Time: 5:00-6:00 PM – Refreshments to follow Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium, Room 404, […]

Genetics & Inequality

Date: September 13, 2016 Presenter: William A. Darity, Jr., PhD,  Samuel DuBois  Cook Professor of Public Policy,  Sanford School of Public Policy; Professor of African and African American Studies; Professor of Economics Affiliate of the Center for Child and Family Policy;  Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI’s Population Research Center; Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for […]

Performable Case Study – “Perhaps A Level Field” – The (Bio)Ethics of Third-Party Litigation Funding

Performed by Spring 2016 Performable Case Studies Class (BIE 727) Monday 25 April 7:00-8:00 pm Room 409, Benson University Center, Wake Forest University The case concerns the ways in which a person who has been injured by a medical device or a questionable medical intervention can become a means to a lucrative end — “investment” […]