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The Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series meets once monthly for faculty, staff, and students to discuss selected ethics topics. All meetings are Wednesdays, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are at UCSD in Medical Teaching Facility (MTF) 175

2001
Topic
Discussion
Leader
January 17
Integrating Machines and Bodies
Butler
February 21
Human Trials of Gene Therapy in the Nervous System
Tuszynski
March 21
Ethical Selection of Kidney Donors
Steiner
April 18
Ethics of Health Care Reform
Schneiderman
May 23
Statistical Ethics:
Choice, Chance and Error in an Imperfect World
Woolf
June 13
Ethical and Policy Issues in International Research
Carrera
July 11
Responsibility for Communicating Science to Non-Scientists
Kalichman
August 8
What is a University?
Shapin
September 19
Whistleblowing
Kalichman
October 17
Protecting Genomics' Promise: Banning Discrimination Based on Genetic Identity
Anita Silvers
San Francisco State University
November 14
Placebo-controlled Trials
Carrera
December 19
Paid Organ Donation -- Can it Ever be Ethical?
Burke and Steiner