Entries by Bioethics @WFU

Bioethics Seminar – 3 March – Henry Beecher’s Bombshell at 50: “Ethics & Clinical Research” Revisited

SUSAN E. LEDERER, PHD Robert Turrell Professor and Chair, Department of Medical History and Bioethics University of Wisconsin-Madison Dr. Lederer is the Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, and Chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is spending the spring semester at UNC-Chapel Hill as […]

Taking a New Approach to Stem Cell Regulation

Policing clinics isn’t the right move; instead, the FDA needs to consider the concerns of key stakeholders. Editorial by: Ana Iltis, PhD, Wake Forest University & Kirstin Matthews, PhD, Rice University Publication: See the Houston Chronicle, December 15, 2015:  View Editorial

WFU School of Law – Health Law and Policy Program presents ‘Future of Medicaid Expansion in North Carolina’ – 25 January 2016

Wake Forest Law’s Health Law and Policy Program will host a panel of industry leaders to discuss the “Future of Medicaid Expansion in North Carolina” from 5:45 to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312. The event is free and open to the public. With the U.S. Supreme […]

Exploring Ethics Series – December 1st – Ethical Issues in Neonatal & Perinatal End-of-Life Care

CHRISTINE BISHOP, MD, MA, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics (Neonatology), Wake Forest School of Medicine, Chair of the Clinical Ethics Consultation Subcommittee, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Alumna of the Graduate Program in Bioethics, Wake Forest University 12:00-1:00 PM Conference Room 10C, 10th Floor Conference Room, Comprehensive Cancer Center at WFBMC. To register, please visit […]

Bioethics Seminar – 3 November – The Authority of the Ethics Consultant

JOIN US FOR A BIOETHICS LECTURE: This fall’s Center for Bioethics, Health, and Society lecture series features visiting speakers whose work illustrates the varied uses of narrative and viewpoint in bioethics The Authority of the Ethics Consultant Tuesday 3 November 5:00-6:00 pm Z. Smith Reynolds Library Auditorium, Room 404 Reynolda Campus, Wake Forest University KENNETH […]

October 13 – Presentation – The Dialogic Case Study, Bioethics Pedagogy & the Ethics of Nature

  Richard Robeson Adjunct Professor of Practice-Bioethics, Dept. of Communication; Bioethics Faculty, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Case examples will cover a rich variety of subject/issue areas, but the centerpiece of the presentation will be a case involving bioethics, biotechnology and law, which was built in Robeson’s Spring 2011 M.A. in Bioethics class, and […]

Nancy King, JD appointed to the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections

Nancy King, JD, Professor, Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy and Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine; Co-Director, Center for Bioethics, Health, & Society and Graduate Program in Bioethics, Wake Forest University, has been appointed by US Dept of Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Burwell to the Secretary’s […]

Enrollment Deficits under the Affordable Care Act (Oct. 2015)

The Wake Forest Law School’s Health Law and Policy Center has issued a report on “enrollment deficits” under the Affordable Care Act,  in North Carolina’s rural counties.  Prepared with support from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, this report focuses on the unenrolled population that is potentially eligible for subsidies through the “marketplace” exchange — […]

Bioethics Seminar – 6 October – Narrating Bioethics through Feminist Modes of Thinking

ROSEMARIE TONG, PhD, MA Professor Emerita of Philosophy, University of North Carolina – Charlotte Dr. Rosemarie Tong retired in 2015 as Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at UNC Charlotte. Internationally recognized for her contributions to feminist thought and bioethics, […]

Bioethics Seminar – “The Grand Inquisitor: Toward an Ethics of Medical Narrative”

TERRENCE HOLT, MD, PhD, , Assistant Professor, Social Medicine & Director of Literature, Medicine, UNC School of Medicine – Chapel Hill Dr. Holt taught English literature and creative writing before entering medical school. He is not only an academic physician with a diverse geriatric practice and a wide range of scholarly and teaching interests, including […]