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Research Ethics Journal Club
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 Wednesday, October 12 , 2005
| Topic: |
The "Is and Ought" of Ethics Centers |
| Presenter: |
Michael Kalichman, UCSD Research Ethics Program |
| Location: |
SDSU Foundation: Sky Park |
| Discussion: |
Recently, USA Today ran a brief story on the state of bioethics. It called attention to some of the difficulties surrounding the definition of what we mean by someone being an "ethicist" and what it is that they are qualified to speak about (see http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-09-28-bioethics-expertise_x.htm)
This very timely question has now come up in two articles in the most recent issue of the Hastings Center Report:
• Wolf SM, Kahn JP (2005): Bioethics Matures: The Field Faces the Future. Hastings Center Report 35(4): 22-24.
• Solomon MZ (2005): Realizing Bioethics' Goals in Practice: Ten Ways "Is" can help "ought." Hastings Center Report 35(4): 40-47.
The discussion will focus on first summarizing the content of these papers and then a consideration of what this means about what is needed and how it can be accomplished in the San Diego region. |
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Note: For those Journal Club members at UCSD, readings are available through electronic reserves in the UCSD Biomedical Library. Go to http://reserves.ucsd.edu, click "Electronic Reserves & Reserves Pages", select the "Pages by Instructor" tab, select instructor "Kalichman", and click "View". On the Course Reserves page, click "SOM300", read and accept the copyright statement, open the Journal Club folder, and find the files in this month's file. For those not at UCSD, please e-mail us at ethics@ucsd.edu and we will send you a PDF attachment. |
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