AMA Journal of Ethics essay by James Childress and Marcia Day Childress
8/6/2020
In its May 2020 issue, the AMA Journal of Ethics carried an essay by James Childress and Marcia Day Childress, "What Does the Evolution from Informed Consent to Shared Decision…
3/24/2020
This portion of our website provides relevant articles from the literature regarding ethical issues that have or may arise during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will keep it updated, and welcome…
1918 Flu Pandemic – Lessons for Today
3/2/2020
In fall 2018, Medical Center Hour offered Influenza! 1918-2018, a three-program series on the 1918 global influenza pandemic to raise awareness for 21st century public health preparedness. Looking back helps…
3/2/2020
Medical Center Hour’s two latest Hayden-Farr Lectures, in October 2018 and November 2019, dealt with the challenges of global pandemic infectious disease. In 2018, physician-scientist Jeffery Taubenberger discussed lessons from…
1/8/2020
Dr. Marshall is consulted in a Kaiser Health News article about the case of Tinslee Lewis, a Texas baby at the center of a dispute between family and health care…
Lois Shepherd publishes new AJOB commentary on “usual care” studies
1/8/2020
Professor Lois Shepherd, in this peer commentary published in January 2020 in the American Journal of Bioethics, explains that much of the debate about comparative effectiveness research “involves a disagreement…
Core Faculty Member Featured in NPR Story on Childhood Type 1 Diabetes
10/22/2019
Julia Taylor, MD MA a core faculty member at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, was recently interviewed for an NPR story about Type 1 Diabetes in children and…
Chen and Shepherd write about the healing skill of being a team player
10/18/2019
Chen and Shepherd write about the healing skill of being a team player. Donna Chen, M.D., M.P.H., and Lois Shepherd, J.D., along with former bioethics interns Eleanor Muse and…
Medical Center Hour Speaker’s New Book
9/24/2019
MEDICAL CENTER HOUR SPEAKER’S NEW BOOK Writer Leslie Jamison’s newest book, Make It Scream, Make It Burn, earns high praise for being, according to a review on NPR, “a heady…
Medical Center Hour Speaker Creates an Inspiring Barbie Doll
9/24/2019
MEDICAL CENTER HOUR SPEAKER CREATES AN INSPIRING BARBIE DOLL Tree biologist Nalini Nadkarni, who has spoken at two Medical Center Hours, was featured in NPR’s special video series, “Maddie about…
