bioethics

Eileen Anderson-Fye, associate professor of bioethics and adjunct associate professor of psychiatry, used her two decades of research to re-theorize the effects of sociocultural factors on body image and eating disorders. The piece, titled “Cultural Influences on Body Image and Eating Disorders,” w...

Interested in a career in any of the health sciences? Students are invited to come learn about the one-year bioethics master's degree program Thursday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m. in the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building auditorium. Undergraduate students can learn how they can earn their maste...

Suzanne Rivera, vice president for research and assistant professor in the Department of Bioethics, is the co-editor of a new book published by MIT Press titled Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications. Other co-editors for the book are Holly Fernandez Lynch, Barbara Bierer and I. Glenn Coh...

Vice President for Research Suzanne M. Rivera and Associate Professor of Bioethics Aaron Goldenberg co-authored an editorial published in a special edition of The American Journal of Bioethics. The edition of the journal focused on revisions of The Common Rule that governs human research in the U.S....

Eileen Anderson-Fye, associate professor of bioethics, wrote an op-ed published in The San Pedro Sun titled “Small Efforts -can make a Big Impact.” After the death of 13-year-old Faye Lin Cannon in San Pedro, Belize, Anderson-Fye explained how individuals can make a difference in the abuse experien...

Students are invited to an information session for the Department of Bioethics’ short-term travel abroad course offered next fall. The course, titled “Water Security and Social Justice in Brazil: Multidisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives,” is open to undergraduate and graduate students from...

The Department of Bioethics’ Medicine, Society and Culture track will host Nadia El-Shaarawi, assistant professor of global studies at Colby College, for a talk titled “Solving Displacement: Iraqi Refugees, Mental Health, and the Double Bind of Vulnerability.” El-Shaarawi will draw on ethnographic ...

The Department of Bioethics will host an Integrated Graduate Studies Lunch and Learn Friday, Jan. 27, from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Wolstein Research Building, Room 1203. The Bioethics Integrated Graduate Studies program aims to help students increase their chances of getting into graduate or professiona...

The Department of Bioethics will host an open house reception and information session about the Integrated Graduate Studies (IGS) program Thursday, Oct. 27, at 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Iris S. & Bert L. Wolstein Research Building, Room 1413. Through the IGS program, students can earn their MA in bio...

Good health involves more than hard science. In 2010, the Affordable Care Act acknowledged this reality by encouraging engagement in patients’ social spaces. Two years later, the people responsible for the national medical school admissions exam showed they recognized it too, adding a section on s...