We are excited to announce the 2024 Wylie Burke Endowed Scholarship for Diversity!
Past News and Events
May 30, 2024, 12:00pm
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.
May 8, 2024, 12:00pm
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.
About the Speaker:
April 23, 2024, 12:00pm
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
April 10, 2024, 12:00pm
Please join the Bioethics and Humanities department for a Harborview Ethics Forum presentation by Dr. Alexandra Hernandez, MD, MCR on "Trauma Informed Care."