{"id":13,"date":"2015-05-12T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/biomedical-ethics\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:00:56","slug":"13-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/biomedical-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Health Humanities &amp; Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\n<div id=\"gslideshow\" class=\"gss-container\">\n\t<div class=\"cycle-slideshow\" \n\t\tdata-cycle-timeout_4000=\"\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-slides=\"> a\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-paused=\"true\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-prev=\"#gslideshow_prev\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-next=\"#gslideshow_next\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-pager=\"#gslideshow_pager\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-pager-template=\"<a href=#>&nbsp;<\/a>\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-speed=\"750\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-caption=\"#gslideshow_captions\"\n\t\tdata-cycle-caption-template=\"{{cycleCaption}}\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div id=\"gslideshow_pager\" class=\"gss-pager\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/biomedical-ethics\/13-2\/1946barringerbldg\/\" data-cycle-caption=\"Hospital Drive\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/biomedical-ethics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2015\/05\/1946barringerbldg.jpg\" title=\"Hospital Drive\" alt=\"Hospital Drive\" \/><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/biomedical-ethics\/melton\/\" data-cycle-caption=\"7 September 2016\nMedical Center Hour\nPRIMARY CARE: ON THE FRONT LINE FOR HEALTH AND WELL BEING\n\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/biomedical-ethics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2016\/06\/Melton.jpeg\" title=\"S. 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Hughes Melton MD\" \/><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/biomedical-ethics\/?attachment_id=625\" data-cycle-caption=\"2016 Biomedical Ethics Summer Interns\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/biomedical-ethics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2016\/01\/2016Summer-Interns.jpg\" title=\"2016 Biomedical Ethics Summer Interns\" alt=\"2016 Biomedical Ethics Summer Interns\" \/><\/a>\n\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/biomedical-ethics\/?attachment_id=643\" data-cycle-caption=\"Veritas 2016\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/biomedical-ethics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2016\/08\/Veritas2016.jpg\" title=\"Veritas 2016\" alt=\"Veritas 2016\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"gss-info\">\n\t\t<div class=\"gss-nav\"><div id=\"gslideshow_prev\" class=\"gss-prev\">&lt;<\/div><div id=\"gslideshow_play\" class=\"gss-play\">&#9658;<\/div><div id=\"gslideshow_next\" class=\"gss-next\">&gt;<\/div><\/div><div class=\"gss-long-cap\">7 September 2016\nMedical Center Hour\nPRIMARY CARE: ON THE FRONT LINE FOR HEALTH AND WELL BEING\n<\/div><div id=\"gslideshow_captions\" class=\"gss-captions\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\n<p>The University of Virginia Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities is a diverse interprofessional community of scholars, teachers, and practitioners whose interests in the human dimensions of illness, health, and health care bridge clinical and social sciences, arts and humanities, ethics and law, philosophy and religion. 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