At a recent Seminar in the Medical Humanities, sponsored by the Medical Humanities program and hosted here at the Center for Bioethics, Emily Beckman, DMH, addressed the need for increased empathy in medical education. In her talk, “Empathy and Medical Education: Cultivating Moral Imagination Through Literature and Film”, Beckman described ways to use narrative to [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 15, 2008
Sound Ethics: Medicines in the Developing World
In an episode of Sound Medicine (April 7, 2008), Alan Breier, MD, Chief medical officer for Eli Lilly & Company joined the hosts Barbara Lewis and Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D., Director, IU Center for Bioethics, to discuss what is being done to improve access to essential medicines to poorer countries and undeveloped populations. Next month [...]
April 10, 2008
Andrea Palm, Senior Health Policy Advisor for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Andrea Palm, Senator Hillary Clinton’s Senior Health Policy Advisor, will be visiting the Center for Bioethics as a guest of the IUPUI Consortium for Health Policy, Law and Bioethics. Please join us in the 1st floor conference room (#1110) of the Health Information and Translational Sciences (HITS) building from 3-4pm on April 18th. [...]
