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The stars must have been in alignment in 1985.
“There was a sense of excitement, a spirit of collegiality,”
said Mila Aroskar, Professor Emerita and first Director
of Graduate Studies in the Center. “It was as if the
University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics was
meant to be.”
Prior to 1985, bioethics education in the health sciences
at the University of Minnesota consisted of a spring
quarter lecture series sponsored by the multidisciplinary
Student Committee on Bioethics. The lectures were not
providing the ethics education students and faculty
wanted so they requested additional resources. The Vice
President for Health Sciences at the time, Neal Vanselow,
responded by appointing a University-wide task force
to consider the request. The task force recommended
centralizing and using available University ethics
resources, and created a mission statement that
described a center that would address “newly emerging
biomedical ethics questions and developing dilemmas
in health care delivery.”
Dr. Vanselow, mission statement in hand, requested
and almost immediately received start-up funding from
the Northwest Area Foundation. Paul Quie, MD,
accepted the position of Interim Director, and the rest,
as they say, is history.
The Center’s twentieth anniversary creates an opportunity
to look at how the issues, the field of bioethics, and the
Center have changed over its history. For example,
The Minnesota Center for Bioethics at 20: Coming of Age in MinnesotaBy Dianne Bartels, RN, MA, PhD
The year 2005 will mark the 20th anniversary of the
founding of the Center for Bioethics. This makes this
year an auspicious occasion and milestone not only
for the Center and the University of Minnesota,
but is a sign of the evolution and maturation
of the field of bioethics—an evolution in which
the Center has played an integral part.
Since this is our anniversary year, the entire volume
of the Examiner will be devoted to discussion of the
Center’s past, present and future and to the issues we
continue to address. As the lead article in this issue of
the Examiner details, the Center has been an important
hub for discussion, research and policy recommendations
on the important bioethics issues over the last two decades.
Dianne Bartels outlines the
early history of the Center—
how it got its start and who
were the key early
proponents of bioethics
at the University, helping
to launch the Center
and fostering its fledgling
efforts. She also highlights
some of the issues the
Center took on in its early days, making clear that
our mission from the beginning has included the
examination of pressing and controversial issues.
The spring issue of the Examiner will feature an
assessment of the state of the field of bioethics by
From the Director ...
Twenty and CountingBy Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH
In this issue:
Center News
Page 2
2004 Minnesotan
of the Year -
Steven Miles
Page 3
A Look Back —
1985–1993
Page 4
Recent Faculty
Publications
Page 6
Calendar of Events
Page 7
Continued on Pages 4–5
Bioethics ExaminerA Publication Exploring Issues in Bioethics
Winter 2005
Volume 8
Issue 3
Continued on Page 2
Jeffrey Kahn
in the early 1980s AIDS was an emerging issue, end of
life decision-making was a new area, and managed care
was a novel approach to a growing problem of rising
health care costs.
A Center-sponsored conference in 1986, AIDS: Medical
Facts, Social Challenges and Ethical Dilemmas, was the
first AIDS education effort in the country to address
ethical, as well as medical challenges of this new and
frightening disease. AIDS raised questions not only
about how health care decisions would be made for
AIDS patients, but for other terminally ill individuals.
Concerns about death and dying prompted a number
of recommendations for respecting and maintaining
control of one’s own health care decisions.
In 1987, Arthur Caplan became the Center’s first
full-time director. Mila Aroskar, Dianne Bartels,
Muriel Bebeau, and Ronald Cranford, all of whom
were members of the original task force, have continued
to be active over the succeeding twenty years of the
Center’s efforts to address challenges in bioethics.
“Right to die” cases advanced through the courts and
established legal support for patient and family control
over end of life care. Ronald Cranford, a neurologist
who studied brain injury, advocated for patients and
their families in many of these cases. Steven Miles
was the physician who cared for Helga Wanglie as
the hospital and her family disagreed over who should
make end of life decisions on her behalf, a question
that would eventually end up in the Minnesota courts.
In 1992, the Center convened a conference, Managing
Mortality: Ethics, Euthanasia and Termination of Medical
Treatment, to address ongoing concerns about end
of life issues. This conference gave health care
professionals and community members an opportunity
to hear the voices of professionals and families who
had been actively involved in landmark right to die
cases. Speakers described their ethical perspectives
and the profound personal impact of their
involvement in the processes of decision-making
in this uncharted territory.
These are just a few examples of the pioneering work
of the Center and its faculty and staff. Twenty years ago,
those involved in founding the Center would have had
a hard time imagining bioethics as it has evolved at the
University of Minnesota. Today the Center for Bioethics
is a home for thirty regular and affiliated faculty.
Graduates, trainees, and visitors now populate
numerous universities and research institutions across
the country and around the world. The Center’s impact
over its twenty year history is hard to measure, but by
any account it played an important role in the evolving
field of bioethics, a legacy we all hope will continue over
the next twenty years.
Continued from Page 1
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These are just a few
examples of the pioneering
work of the Center and
its faculty and staff.
Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD, has been elected
as a Fellow to the American Academy of Nursing.
Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, has been elected as
member-at-large of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science: Committee of the Section
on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering.
Check out the new and improved Resource Center webpage
(www.bioethics.umn.edu/resources/) with a new,
user-friendly design. Now it is easier to connect with
the issues and information that interest you most.
You will find new short summaries on organ
transplantation, resource allocation, and reproductive
technologies. See our new Bioethics Overview on
End of Life Care: An Ethical Overview on page 8.
Center News
Save the DateCenter for Bioethics Celebrates 20 Years
May 18, 2005
McNamara Alumni Center
The Center will host a symposium celebrating the Center’s 20th
anniversary, including reflections on the Center’s contributions
to the development and growth of the field of bioethics. Features
will include the Center’s place in a “genealogy of bioethics,”
showing the relationship of the Center, its faculty, and students
to the development of the field, and highlights of past and present
work by the Center and its faculty.
Speakers will include:
Mila Aroskar, RN, EdD; Dianne Bartels, RN, MA, PhD; Arthur Caplan, PhD;
Frank Cerra, MD; Ronald Cranford, MD; Debra DeBruin, PhD; Carl Elliott, MD,
PhD; Kathy Faber-Langendoen, MD; Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH;
Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD; Steven Miles, MD; John Song, MD;
Maryam Valapour, MD; Susan Wolf, JD, and a number of students
and visiting scholars who have worked or studied in the Center.
SPACE IS LIMITED AND PRE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
For information, please contact the Center at 612-624-9440.
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. . . His work has saved countless elderly patients from
medical mishaps and the hazards of institutionalized care.
He’s traveled around the world to treat refugees with
TB and HIV. He authored the Do-Not-Resuscitate order
that allows people to die with dignity and helped develop
the MinnesotaCare program. Last year, he uncovered
physician complicity in the torture of prisoners at Abu
Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. What is this guy— some
kind of secular saint? Not quite. He’s chronically late,
a little moody, absentminded, and stubborn. Also, he tends
to mumble. But it’s worth hearing what Dr. Steven Miles
has to say.
–An excerpt from the article authored by
Ann M. Bauer, in Minnesota Monthly,
January 2005, 52-59.
The Center proudly salutes our colleague, Steven Miles,
MD, who was named 2004 Minnesotan of the Year by
Minnesota Monthly magazine. Steve Miles is an admired
leader in the bioethics community. His work has
exemplified a commitment to human rights issues at
a local, national, and international level throughout his
career. Steve is a master teacher, role model, and mentor.
His work in bioethics is focused on patients’ rights
to make health care decisions throughout their lifespan
and at the end of their lives. He was among the first
physicians and bioethicists in the United States to call
for a universal right to health care. He is an articulate
and prolific spokesperson and scholar who has focused
on changing public policy. Congratulations to Steve
for a well-deserved honor!
Steven Miles, MD
Professor,
Center for Bioethics and
Department of Medicine,
University of Minnesota
Attending Physician,
Fairview-University
Medical Center
Steven Miles–2004 Minnesotan of the YearMinnesota Monthly, January 2005.
Selected Publications
Book
Miles S. The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of
Medicine, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Articles
Miles S. Medical Ethicists, Human Curiosities,
and the New Media Midway. American Journal
of Bioethics 2004;4(3):39-43.
Miles S. Abu Ghraib: Its Legacy for Military Medicine.
Lancet 2004;364:725-29.
Oguz Y, Miles S, Buken N, Civaner N. End of Life Care
in Turkey. Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics
2003;3:279-84.
Dula A, Royal C, Gray Secundy M, Miles S.
The Ethical and Social Implications of Exploring
African American Genealogies. Developing World
Bioethics 2003;3:133-142.
Miles S, Ololo H. Traditional Surgeons in Sub-Saharan
Africa: Images from South Sudan. International Journal
of STDs and AIDS 2003;14:505-08.
Center C, Miles S, Silverman M [Planning Group
on Physician Depression and Suicide of the American
Foundation for Suicide Prevention]. Confronting
Depression and Suicide in Physicians: A Consensus
Statement. JAMA 2003;289:3161-3166.
Miles S. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the
Bioethics Imagination. American Journal of Bioethics
2003;3:12.
Oguz Y, Miles S, Buken N, Civaner N. End of Life Care
in Turkey. Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics
2003;3:279-84.
Available soon
in paperback from
New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 2004
Miles S. The Hippocratic
Oath and the Ethics
of Medicine.
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The Center for Bioethics has been an important hub for
discussion, research and policy recommendations on the
important bioethics issues over the last two decades.
This issue and the next two issues of the Bioethics Examiner
will highlight key events in the Center’s twenty year history.
In this issue, we highlight events from 1985–1993.
Center for Biomedical
Ethics established with
a $300,000 grant from
the Northwest Area
Foundation.
Paul Quie, MD,
appointed Interim Director.
The Center sponsors
conference on
“AIDS: Medical Facts,
Social Challenges,
Ethical Dilemmas.”
Dianne Bartels, RN, MA,
appointed Interim Director.
First Center newsletter,
The Messenger.
Arthur Caplan, PhD,
appointed Director.
Visiting Scholars
Program established.
Center receives funding
from the Deinard Memorial
Law and Medicine fund
to implement an annual
seminar on health,
law and ethics.
First Annual Bioethics
Retreat in Lutsen, MN
hosted by the Center.
More than 50 national
and international
participants working full–
time in the area of bioethics
attended the retreat.
“The Meaning of the
Holocaust for Bioethics”
conference. Participants
represented 15 countries.
Launched bi-monthly ethics
rounds in the University
of Minnesota (UM) Medical
School’s Department of
Medicine and held monthly
ethics case conferences
at Abbott Northwestern
Hospital.
Director Arthur Caplan
writes a weekly column
on ethical issues in health
care for the St. Paul
Pioneer Press Dispatch,
syndicated nationally.
Community Advisory Council
and Research & Education
Council initiated.
our colleague Steve Miles, whose advocacy positions
and unique perspective issues in ethics, medicine
and the broader society have made him a leader
in the field for about as long as the Center has existed.
In the fall issue Carl Elliott will ponder the future
of bioethics; what issues should demand our attention
and what we might do about them.
In addition to feature articles, this year’s Examiner
will feature a timeline chronicling twenty years of
Center events and efforts, with each issue marking
a different collection of notable issues, events or
achievements from across the Center’s history.
There will be a number of additional ways that we
mark our 20th anniversary over the course of the year:
The centerpiece of our recognition of twenty years
of bioethics at Minnesota will be an anniversary
celebration in May 2005, inviting back to campus a
number of faculty and students who have worked
or studied in the Center to reflect on their time in the
Center and on the field of bioethics. We will highlight
our faculty and the issues they have taken on in the
course of the Center’s history as well as showcase the
Center’s contributions to the development and growth
of the field. This will include a “genealogy of
bioethics” showing the relationship of the Center,
its faculty and students to the field.
Continued from Page 1
First Visiting Scholar—
Dr. John Roberts,
Chief Resident, Internal
Medicine, Abbott-
Northwestern Hospital,
Minneapolis.
Center produces a series of
reading packets on current
topics in biomedical ethics;
“Organ Transplantation”;
“Withholding and
Withdrawing of Artificial
Nutrition and Hydration”;
“Fetal Tissue Transplantation”;
and “Termination of
Treatment of Adults.”
Center announces its first
research project, supported
by the Deinard Memorial
Law and Medicine Fund,
“Do We Need a New Ethic for
Health Care in a Changing
Health Care Environment?”
The Center hosts a national
conference “Beyond Baby M:
Ethical Issues in New
Reproductive Technologies”
in Minneapolis.
Center receives funding
for a study on “The Use
of Human Fetal Tissue:
An Interdisciplinary Study
of the Ethical and Public
Policy Issues,” from
the Minnesota Medical
Foundation and General
Service Foundation.
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A free-standing Graduate
Minor in Bioethics is
approved by the University
of Minnesota Graduate
School and the Board
of Regents.
Center for Bioethics and
the University of Pittsburgh
Center for Medical Ethics
awarded a $1.6 million grant
from the DHHS Agency for
Health Care Policy Research
for a 3-year study on organ
and tissue donation.
Faculty and Center Associate
criteria established that
created new faculty
appointments in the Center.
Center awarded grant from
the Edwards Memorial Trust
Foundation for a project
on Humane Care of the
Dying Patient.
“Drawing the Line: Defining
a Basic Level of Health Care”
conference, co-sponsored
with the University of
Minnesota Hospital and
Clinics, the Minnesota
Humanities Commission,
the Hubbard Foundation and
Blue Plus Quality Assurance.
Center sponsors a national
conference on “Genetic
Counseling: Ethics, Values,
and Responsibilities,”
funded by the Human
Genome Project, NIH.
Center sponsors a
conference and theatrical
production “Race, Prejudice
and Health Care: Lessons
of the Tuskegee Syphilis
Study” (collaboration
with the Illusion Theater,
Minneapolis).
Center coordinates first
University of Minnesota
Health Sciences Short
Course on the Successful
and Responsible Conduct
of Scientific Research to
meet NIH requirement
for research training grants.
“Managing Mortality:
Ethics Euthanasia, and the
Termination of Treatment”
conference funded by the
FHP Foundation.
A conference on “Critical
Condition: African
Americans in the Health
Care System” (collaboration
with the Illusion Theater,
Minneapolis).
“Taking Values Seriously:
A Values Framework for
Minnesota’s Health Care
System” conference.
We will host a series of speakers on cutting edge topics
and issues, through our Center seminar series and our
co-sponsorship of numerous speakers and symposia
across campus (see page 6 for details).
The Center, along with our partner the Consortium
on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life
Sciences, will host a meeting on the future of the field
of bioethics.
Finally, in conjunction with the University’s Stem
Cell Ethics Advisory Board, we will host a one-day
conference in Fall 2005 on public discourse and
the future of the stem cell research debate.
Stay tuned for more details.
Twenty years is the blink of an eye in the development
of a scholarly area, of course, but it is also seems long
enough to be confident that bioethics is here to stay.
Nobody can predict what the field will look like twenty
years from now, but it seems safe to say that bioethics
has filled an increasingly important role in the
education of students, professionals, and the public;
and that bioethics research will continue to impact
science, medicine and public policy. We have been
proud to be an important part of the story that brought
bioethics to where it is today, and hope to play a role
in what it will be twenty years from now.
The Center publishes reports
on “RU486: New Issues in
the American Abortion
Debate” and “The Use
of Human Fetal Tissue:
Scientific, Ethical and
Policy Concerns.”
Center’s first book
publication, Beyond
Baby M: Ethical Issues
Raised by New Reproductive
Technologies, Humana
Press, February 1990;
based on conference
proceedings from 1988.
Center appoints Susan Wolf,
Associate Professor of Law
and Medicine, jointly with
the University of Minnesota
Law School.
Center establishes first Post
Doctoral Fellowship.
“Who’s Afraid of Jurassic
Park” a discussion for kids
and adults about genetic
engineering—a collaboration
with The Science Museum
of Minnesota and the
Minnesota Human
Genetics League.
Center book publication,
Prescribing our Future: Ethical
Challenges in Genetic Counseling.
Aldine De Gruyter, 1993.
Arthur Caplan and Steven Miles
participated on President
Clinton’s US Domestic Health
Policy Commission.
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Recent Faculty Publications
Book
Rule J, Bebeau M. Dentists Who Care: Inspiring Stories
of Professional Commitment. Chicago, IL: Quintessence
Publishing, 2005.
Articles
DeBruin D. Looking Beyond the Limitations of
Vulnerability: Reforming Safeguards in Research.
American Journal of Bioethics 2004;4(3):76-78.
DeVries R, Bosk C. The Bioethics of Business:
Rethinking the Relationship Between Bioethics
Consultants and Corporate Clients. Hastings Center
Report 2004;34(5):28-32.
DeVries R, Bosk C. Bureaucracies of Mass Deception:
IRBs and the Ethics of Ethnographic Research.
Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science
2004;595(1):249-263.
DeVries R, DeBruin D, Goodgame A. Ethics Review
of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research: Where
Should We Go From Here? Ethics & Behavior
2004;14(4):351-368.
DeVries R. The Warp of Evidence-Based Medicine:
Lessons from Dutch Maternity Care. International
Journal of Health Services Research 2004;34(4):595-623.
Elliott C. Pharma Goes to the Laundry: Public Relations
and the Business of Medical Education. Hastings Center
Report 2004;34(5):18-23.
Wagner J, Kahn J, Wolf S, Lipton J. Preimplantation
Testing to Produce an HLA-Matched Donor Infant.
[Letter] JAMA 2004;292(7):803-804.
Kent R, Liaschenko J. Operationalizing Professional
Values Through PAC Donations. Politics, Policy,
and Nursing Practice 2004;5(4):243-249.
Peter E, Liaschenko J. Perils of Proximity:
A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Moral Distress and Moral
Ambiguity. Nursing Inquiry 2004;11(4):218-225.
Miles S. Medical Ethicists, Human Curiosities, and the
New Media Midway. American Journal of Bioethics
2004;4(3):39-43.
Norlander L, Ratner E. Formation and Operation of a
Statewide Commission on End-of-Life Care, Minnesota.
Journal of Palliative Medicine 2004;7(6):839-845.
ISBN #0867154519
Chicago, IL: Quintessence
Publishing, March 2005.
Center for Bioethics Seminar Series—Celebrating 20 Years
Seminars will be held in room 2-122 Molecular
& Cellular Biology Building, on the University
of Minnesota campus from 12:15 to 1:30 pm.
For information, contact the Center at 612-624-9440.
Mar 11
Carol Tauer, PhD, Center for Bioethics will speak on “Feeding
Tubes and Moral Decisions: Jamie Butcher, Terri Schiavo, and
the Pope.”
April 8
Maryam Valapour, MD, Center for Bioethics and Division
of Pulmonary Medicine, will speak on “Ethics of the Use of
Psychosocial Factors as Contraindication for Transplantation.”
May 6
Timothy Murphy, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago
School of Medicine will speak on “Members First: The Ethics
of Donating Organs and Tissues to Groups.”
Co-sponsoredSeminars with theJoint Degree Programon Law, Health & the Life Sciences and the Consortium on Law and Values inHealth, Environment & the Life SciencesFor more information,
call 612-625-0055.
April 5Lunch Series on the Societal
Implications of the Life
Sciences. Alan Milstein, Esq.,
Sherman, Silverstein, Kohl,
Rose & Podolsky will speak
on “Human Subjects
Protection: A Plaintiff ’s
Perspective” 12:15 to
1:30 pm, Mississippi Room,
Coffman Memorial Union.
April 18Annual Conference.
“Proposals for the
Responsible Use of Racial
& Ethical Categories in
Biomedical Research: Where
Do We Go From Here?”
8:30 to 5:00 pm, Mondale
Hall, University of
Minnesota Law School.
April 20Lecture Series. Professor
Alta Charo, University of
Wisconsin will speak on
“From Stem Cells to Jail
Cells” 11:30 to 1:00 pm,
Mississippi Room,
Coffman Memorial Union.
May 20Annual Symposium.
“Where are Law, Ethics
& the Life Sciences
Headed? Frontier Issues,”
at Mondale Hall,
University of Minnesota
Law School.
Feb 26Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will participate in a panel
presentation “Scholarly
Communication and
Practical Ethics” at the
Association for Practical
and Professional Ethics 14th
Annual Conference,
San Antonio, TX.
For information, visit
www.indiana.edu/~appel/.
Feb 28 – Mar 1Steven Miles, MD,
will speak on “Abu Ghraib
and Guantanamo: Medical
Professionalism, Dual
Loyalty and Human Rights”
at the Harvard Public Forum
sponsored by Harvard
University and the Center
for Applied Ethics and
Professional Practice,
Boston, MA.
For information, email
msolomon@edc.org.
Mar 2Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will speak on “Ethical Issues
Surrounding Cellular
Therapy” at the 7th Annual
United Resource Network
Conference “Evolving
Science of Blood/Marrow
Transplantation and Cancer
Treatments,” Miami, FL. For
information, visit
www.urnweb.com/.
Mar 3Michael Gill, PhD,
University of Arizona,
will speak on “Can US
Organ Donation Policy
be Improved?” Minneapolis,
MN. Sponsored by the
Department of Philosophy
and co-sponsored by Center
for Bioethics, and CHIP
Bioethics Student
Committee, University of
Minnesota. For information,
call 612-624-9440.
Mar 10Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will speak on “Ethical Issues
in Emerging Technologies”
at the University of
Nebraska, Graduate Studies
Research Fair, Lincoln. NE.
For information, email
lbellows1@unionotes.unl.edu.
Mar 10Steven Miles, MD,
will speak at Yale School
of Medicine Grand Rounds,
New Haven, CT.
For information, email
patricia.king@yale.edu.
Mar 14 –15Steven Miles, MD, will
comment on Richard Sprott,
PhD, “Reality Check: What
are the Consequences of
Genetic Research for Aging
and the Clinical Implications
that Derive from the
Genetics Revolution?”
at Boston College, Chestnut
Hill, MA. For information,
email readca@bc.edu.
Mar 16Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will speak at the University
of Minnesota Medical
School, Department
of Surgery Transplant
Conference “Cutting
Edge–Debate on Organ
Sales,” Minneapolis, MN.
For information,
call 612-625-5150.
Mar 20–24Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will speak on “Maimonides
and Contemporary Research
Ethics” and Steven Miles,
MD, will speak on
“The Medical Aphorisms
of Maimonides and of the
Hippocratic School” at the
The First International
Maimonides Conference
on Medicine and Ethics,
Tiberias, Israel.
For information, visit
www.ortra.com/maimonides/.
Apr 2–3Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will participate in Great
Conversations on the Road
“Bioethics in the National
Spotlight” at the University
of Minnesota Alumni
Association —Arizona
Chapters, Tucson, AZ.
For information, visit
www.alumni.umn.edu/
UMAA_Home.html.
Apr 4Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will speak at St. Olaf College,
Stem Cell event, Northfield,
MN. For information,
call 612-624-9440.
Apr 7Carl Elliott, MD, PhD,
will speak on “Is That
a Bioethicist in Your
Pocket?” at the American
Society for Bioethics and
Humanities (ASBH) spring
conference “The Ethics of
Bioethics,” held at Albany
Medical College, Albany, NY.
For more information, see
the conference website at
ethics.bioethics.net/dir.php
or contact Ann Nolte
at 518-3883-8042.
Apr 12Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will speak on “Little Cells,
Big Issues: The Ethics
and Policy Debate Around
Embryonic Stem Cell
Research” at the Keck
Graduate Institute,
Claremont, CA.
For information,
call 612-624-9440.
Apr 20–21Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will speak at the Native
American Transplant
Conference at McNamara
Alumni Center,
Minneapolis, MN.
For information,
call 612-624-9440.
Apr 22Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will speak on “Ethics
and Stem Cell Research—
the State of the Debate”
at the Twin Cities Eye
Meeting, Phillips Eye
Institute, Minneapolis, MN.
For information,
call 612-624-9440.
May 18Celebrating 20 YearsThe Center for Bioethics
Anniversary Event at
McNamara Alumni
Center, 1:00–5:30 pm.
(see page 2 for information).
May 23–27Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will serve as faculty at the
USDA Bioethics Institute
2005. The workshop will
be hosted by Iowa State
University, Ames, IA.
For information, email
bioeth1@iastate.edu.
June 2Steven Miles, MD, will speak
at the University of
California, Davis Medical
Center, Internal Medicine
Grand Rounds, Davis, CA.
For information, email
ctgomez@ucdavis.edu.
June 14Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will speak on “Ethical Issues
in Emerging Technologies”
and “A Model for
Implementing Training
in Ethics” at the University
of Pittsburgh’s 11th Annual
Conference on Teaching
Survival Skills and Ethics,
Snowmass, CO.
For information, visit
www.survival.pitt.edu/events
/trainer.asp.
June 21–25Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,
will speak at Peiking
University Health Science
Center Workshop,
Xi’an, China.
For information, email
wzxia1975@vip.sina.com.
Call for Papers–UndergraduateBioethics JournalThe Bioethics Society of the
University of Pennsylvania
has announced the launch
of a peer-reviewed online
journal Penn Bioethics
Journal. This journal
provides a nationwide
forum for undergraduate
discussion of current,
relevant issues in bioethics.
All undergraduates in
bioethics are encouraged
to submit term papers,
summer research write-ups
and manuscripts fitting
submission guidelines.
Guidelines are available at
www.bioethicsjournal.com.
Calendar of Events
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Center Faculty & StaffCenter FacultyJeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH
Director and Maas Family
Chair in Bioethics
Dianne Bartels, RN, MA, PhD
Associate Director
Debra DeBruin, PhD
Director of Graduate Studies
John Song, MD, MPH, MAT
Director of Medical
Education
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD
Steven Miles, MD
Maryam Valapour, MD
Susan M. Wolf, JD
Visiting FacultyRaymond de Vries, PhD
Carol Tauer, PhD
Post-Doctoral FellowDavid Satin, MD
Faculty AssociatesMuriel Bebeau, PhD
Ronald Cranford, MD
Barbara Elliott, PhD
Rosalie Kane, PhD
David Mayo, PhD
Gregory Plotnikoff, MD, MTS
Edward Ratner, MD
Karen-Sue Taussig, PhD
Beth Virnig, PhD, MPH
Resource CenterLesli Rawles
Amy Ward
Graduate AssistantsLucy Alderton
Tali Averbuch
Alicia Hall
Susan Parry
Administrative StaffLeeAnne Hoekstra
Candace Holmbo
Karen Howard
Janice Kalien
Margaret O’Neill
The Spring 2005
Bioethics Examiner
submission deadline is
April 1, 2005.
Send submissions to:
Bioethics Examiner
Center for Bioethics
University of Minnesota
N504 Boynton
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Minneapolis, MN 55455-0346
Tel: 612-624-9440
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Beginning with a definition of death in modern society
and continuing all the way through post-death issues,
End of Life Care: An Ethical Overview presents significant
ethical issues related to death and dying. Topics include
the benefits and drawbacks of various types of modern
treatment, ending life through termination of treatment
or physician assistance, preserving the patient’s individual
autonomy, terminally ill children, and medical research.
Available now at www.bioethics.umn.edu/resources
or contact the Resource Center at 612-624-3171
or bioethx@umn.edu.
Bioethics Overviews are also available on:
Human Stem Cells
Research Ethics
Organ Transplantation
Distributing Limited Healthcare Resources
Resuscitation Decisions
Genetic Testing and Screening
The Center gratefully acknowledges the Starr Foundation,in supporting this effort.
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