OSHER 637 - Contemporary Ethical Issues in Medicine and Medical Research

Ethical issues in medicine cover a broad range, and along with legal forces have influenced the emergence of bioethics as a discipline. Experts from the Division of Medical Ethics and the Humanities at the U of U will offer a range of presentations, including: Controversial Cases in Medical Ethics, Ethical Dilemmas at the End of Life: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, Jeffrey R. Botkin, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Ethics and Associate Vice President for Research; Religion and Bioethics: Religiously Based Demands for and Refusals of Treatment, Armand Antommaria, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Utah's New Approach to Advance Directives, Leslie P. Francis, Ph.D., J.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy and Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law, College of Law; Healing with Stories: Medical Humanities, Narrative Medicine, and Bioethics, Teresa Jones, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities; and Apologizing for Mistakes: In Medicine and In Life, Jay Jacobson, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, Chief, Division of Medical Ethics, and Member, Division of Infectious Disease.