bioethics
March 14, 2018
The Case Western Reserve University Department of Bioethics invites applications for two graduate student fellowship competitions. The Medical Humanities and Social Medicine Graduate Research Grant offers up to $4,000. The opportunity is to support pilot or ongoing research at the intersection of…
February 22, 2018
Kavita Arora, an assistant professor of reproductive biology and bioethics for the School of Medicine, co-wrote a piece for STAT titled “An ultrasound on Instagram suggested the baby could be in danger. Does a physician have a duty to warn?” Arora and her co-author discussed the recent situation…
February 13, 2018
Earn your master's in bioethics and medical humanities through Integrated Graduate Studies (IGS). The Department of Bioethics will host an open house and information session Thursday, Feb. 22, at 5 p.m. Learn the details of this one-year master's program and how you can earn the degree in your…
November 17, 2017
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,”…
October 23, 2017
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…
October 20, 2017
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…
August 11, 2017
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…
July 28, 2017
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…
May 03, 2017
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…
February 22, 2017
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…