Event

Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare | Bioethics Grand Rounds

Please join the Bioethics and Humanities Department on Zoom for a Grand Rounds presentation by Nora Kenworthy, PhD: Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare. Dr. Kenworthy will summarize a decade of mixed-methods research on the use of crowdfunding for health care, highlighting core ethical issues with this increasingly popular strategy for helping pay for care.

Reproductive Bioethics: A Local and National Perspective | HMC Ethics Forum

This presentation is an overview of timeless and emerging topics in reproductive bioethics, with a focus on topics in education and on recent challenges to patient autonomy and practice.

Objectives:

1. Define reproductive bioethics;

2. Describe unique ethical challenges in teaching and practice;

3. Review recent local and national bioethics cases.

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The Ethics of Human Brain Organoids and Human-Animal Neural Chimeras Among U.S. Bioethicists and Public | Bioethics Grand Rounds

Medical research for neurological disorders has been limited by the fact that it is ethically difficult to experiment on live people’s brains.  In response, scientists have created small (4mm) pieces of human brains in a dish made from human stem calls to experiment upon called human brain organoids.  With the same motivation, there are now also animals that have had their brains “humanized” in various ways, result

Gun Violence Prevention: What Is Possible? | Harborview Ethics Forum

Please join the Bioethics and Humanities department for a Harborview Ethics Forum presentation by Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, PhD: Gun Violence Prevention: What Is Possible?.

This presentation will summarize the scope of gun violence in the United States and review specific approaches with the greatest potential to prevent it and reduce its harmful consequences. Dr. Rowhani-Rahbar will describe the scope of gun violence in the United States and identify specific approaches with the greatest potential to prevent gun violence and reduce its harmful consequences.