Health Care Ethics
Seminars
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The Poynter Center invites six to eight speakers during the
academic year to address ethical concerns of community health
care providers. Discussion participants include faculty
members, students, local physicians and nurses, and center staff.
January 22
Nicole C. Quon, Assistant Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
"Do Changes in NIH Grant Priorities Match the Women's Health Agenda? The Role of Advocacy and Public Health Needs."
Professor Quon is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affiars. She examined the impact of the women's health movement and public health needs on NIH grant funding for key diseases on the women's health agenda.
February 19
Kimberly Quaid, PhD, IU School of Medicine
"Should We Test Children for Late-Onset Genetic Disease?"
March 26
David Craig, Religious Studies, IUPUI
"Making Religious Values Count: Health Care Mission as Participatory Discourse."
April 9
Robert Crouch, Poynter Center, IU
"Hope in the Healthcare Context."
Robert Crouch spelled out the tension between the value of sustaining one’s hopes in the face of illness and the need to attend to the (possibly hope-extinguishing) facts, and he offered some preliminary considerations in favor of the conclusion that people should be allowed a broad normative space within which to hope or not hope as they see fit, most especially near the end of life, and regardless of the facts.
See also the Matthew Vandivier
Sims Memorial Lecture.
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