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 KIPNIS, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii–Manoa

Dr. Kipnis has taught in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii since 1979. This semester, he is Visiting Professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. His areas of specialization are ethics and philosophy of law. He has published over 50 articles and authored, co-authored, or edited eight books, on topics including ethics in pediatrics, legal ethics, prison and military medicine, criminal justice, research ethics, and disaster health care. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Medical Association’s Chicago headquarters and a Visiting Senior Faculty member at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He serves regularly as an expert witness in ethics- related court cases. His lecture addresses the connections between the viewpoint of bioethics and the the role of ethics expertise in consultation and in the courtroom.

Co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy, Wake Forest University
Refreshments to follow