Bioethics Journal Club: Religious Belief and Surrogate Decision Making

Please join us for the next meeting of the Bioethics Journal Club on Thursday, November 12th from 4:00-4:45pm at the IU Center for Bioethics, 410 W 10th Street, Suite 3100, Indianapolis, IN.
The Bioethics Journal Club meeting will be an informal discussion led by Meg Gaffney, MD.  Dr. Gaffney is a Faculty Investigator at the Indiana [...]

Center News, September 2009

This month Indiana University Center for Bioethics worked with its collaborators to launch two new initiatives: an International Research Ethics concentration (a new track in the Masters degree offered by the Department of Philosophy) and the Comparative Effectiveness Study Group. The International Research Ethics (IRE) concentration offers students and professionals the opportunity to study the [...]

Center News, August 2009

This month at the Indiana University Center for Bioethics (IUCB) wraps up a busy summer break and begins a new academic year.
Health Care Reform
Eric M. Meslin (IUCB director) and Aaron Carroll contributed to the nation’s focus on health care reform. Meslin participated in a public debate hosted by Smaller Indiana and also contributed to the [...]

Bioethics for Breakfast: Experimental Medicine and the FDA

Who should have the final say regarding access to experimental medicines: the doctor, the patient or the FDA? This question was addressed on October 24th at a well-attended Bioethics for Breakfast session on Access to Experimental Treatments and the Indiana Courts. Rafat Abonour, MD, Director of the IU Simon Cancer Center Adult Clinical Research Office [...]

Aaron Carroll: Health Reform Debate

What do YOU know about health reform? Are you prepared for November 4th? Join the fray and form an opinion on October 29, 2008 at Framing the Issues on the Left & Right: A Debate on Health Reform. ON THE LEFT is Aaron Carroll, MD, MS, IU Center for Bioethics and Professor of Pediatrics at [...]

The Ethics of Xenotransplantation

Recent scientific advances have made solid organ xenotransplantation (the transplantation of an animal organ into a human being) seem achievable in the next five years. In this seminar (September 25, 2008) Jennifer Girod, J.D., Ph.D., a faculty investigator of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics and an associate with Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLP, explored [...]

Confronting the Ethics of Pandemic Influenza: The 2008 Summit of the States

The Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Indiana State Department of Health and Association of State and Territorial Health Officials recently convened a two-day national event addressing the ethical issues of preparing for an influenza pandemic. State health officers and other senior public health officials from thirty-five U.S. states and territories convened in Indianapolis [...]

Lecture: Torture and Medical Professionals

Join Us tomorrow (May 28th) at the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture. IUCB’s Meg Gaffney, M.D., will be presenting: “Strange Bedfellows: Torture and Medical Professionals”. The lecture, sponsored by the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, will begin at 11:30 AM in the Methodist Hospital Petticrew Auditorium. Dr. Gaffney will outline the history of [...]

Medical Education: A Need for Empathy?

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 [...]

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 [...]