Union will host the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference XI April 4-5, and faculty members are urged to encourage students to join the festivities and submit papers, skits, plays or other presentations.
The deadline for submissions is March 1. For information, please visit: http://ethics.union.edu/nubc.html
“This is a celebration of undergraduate research and an opportunity to introduce a new generation of students to the field of bioethics,” said Robert Baker, chair of the
Rapaport Ethics Across the Curriculum Initiative and the William D. Williams Professor of Philosophy. He also directs the Union Graduate College-Mount Sinai School Medicine Bioethics Program.
Union was chosen as the host site by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). The theme for this year’s conference is “The Human Use of Human Beings in Medicine and Science.”
Tod Chambers, ASBH president and author of “Narrative Bioethics and Prozac as
a Way of Life,” will open the conference with a talk on “Witches, Punks and
Bioethicists.” Award-winning journalist Harriet Washington, author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,” will also address participants.
Other speakers will include Susan Lederer, chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and author of “Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature.”
The event will also include a series of panels, workshops and discussions. A Bioethics Bowl will draw teams from Dartmouth, the National Hispanic University, University of Miami and other schools for formal debates on numerous bioethical topics.