bioethics

JC Scharf-Deering, director of the Conflict of Interests Committee, and Tracy Wilson-Holden, assistant vice president for research integrity—both based in the Office of Research and Technology Management—recently wrote a chapter in the Handbook of Bioethical Decisions, Volume II. Titled…

The Center for Biomedical Ethics will host a grand rounds event on the topic of intersex care Thursday, June 1, from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom. Debra Carroll-Beight, a PhD student in the Department of Bioethics, will present “The Child M.C. and the Intersections of Intersex: Exploring Norms that…

For thousands of years, versions of the saying “laughter is the best medicine” have emerged in religious, scientific and popular literature—and for good reason. Laughter helps our neurological, physical, emotional, cognitive and social health and well-being in multiple ways. To find out why…

An accomplished physician who served at-risk populations across the United States, Anne Templeton Zimmerman (MED ‘74) later spent time working to improve the lives of people around the world as an advocate for human rights and religious freedom. Zimmerman’s philanthropic spirit and passion for…

Erin Benay, associate professor of early modern art and director of undergraduate studies and Deepak Sarma, professor of religious studies and professor of bioethics have been named inaugural Distinguished Scholars in the Public Humanities. Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III made…

The Department of Bioethics will host a talk with Charles Rotimi, scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, Sept. 20, from 11 a.m. to noon in Wolstein Research Building, Room 1413. Rotimi will present “Why diversity in genome…

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a collaborative research grant for a project co-directed by Erin Gentry Lamb, a professor of medical humanities and an associate professor of bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Titled “The Meanings of Dementia:…

Maxwell Mehlman, Distinguished University Professor, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was appointed bioethics reviewer for the Department of Defense Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health…

Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, is a visiting scholar at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Department of Bioethics in Washington, D.C., during her spring semester sabbatical. As a…

Interested in the challenges that emerge in the development of new technologies and advances in clinical, translational and health studies? What about the ethical controversies in off-label usage, international research or publication? If so, consider attending the Bioethics and Medical…