Learn More2021-10-26 12:00:002021-10-26 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS) | Ian Peebles, PhD Candidate
To race or not to race: Guidelines for the use of biological racial classifications in medicine
Ian Peebles, PhD Candidate
Department of Philosophy, UPenn
Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 12:00-1:00p Eastern
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Abstract: With the resurgence in anti-racist activism and the COVID-19 pandemic came a growing attention to how racial classifications are used in medicine. Some support eliminating the use of biological racial classifications (BRCs) in medicine, given these classifications have historically been implicated in a variety of social ills (Krieger 1999, 2014; Roberts 2009, 2011; Hochman 2013; Yudell et al. 2016). But there is growing data that suggest certain BRCs may aid in the promotion of social and epistemic goods (Burchard et al. 2003; Yang et al. 2011; Hardimon 2017; Spencer 2018, 2019). Given the potential tradeoffs, when (if ever) is it morally permissible to use BRCs in medicine? Using a virtue-based normative framework, I construct a decision tree for determining permissible uses of BRCs in medicine. I argue that it is morally permissible to use BRCs in medicine if and only if (i) the relevant social determinants of health are sufficiently engaged prior to or in tandem with the use of BRCs, (ii) the end(s) sought cohere with the aim of medicine and are best acquired using BRCs, and (iii) the use of BRCs does not violate the relevant just legal norms constraining medical practice more generally. A benefit of my account is that it provides guidance in using BRCs in medicine, without requiring a metaphysical commitment to the reality of these classifications.
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Learn More2021-11-01 12:00:002021-11-01 13:00:00America/New_YorkResearch Ethics and Policy Series (REPS) | Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, M.Bioethics
Paying patients to participate in clinical trials: Undue, Unjust, or Understudied?
Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, M.Bioethics
John M. Eisenberg Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Monday, November 1, 12:00-1:00p Eastern
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Abstract: For decades, providing patients with financial incentives for research participation has been controversial and variably regulated due to uncertainty regarding whether financial incentives serve as undue inducements by blunting peoples’ sensitivity to research risks, or unjust inducements by preferentially increasing enrollment among disadvantaged persons. Emerging normative analyses and a small number of empirical studies of how hypothetical offers of payments influence trial enrollment decisions have increasingly suggested that concerns with incentivizing research may be overblown. But without evidence of how real incentives influence participation in real trials, investigators, research sponsors, and regulatory bodies have rarely modified their practices or norms. This year, we published the results of two randomized trials of real incentives for participating in two real parent trials. This talk will review these trials’ designs and results, interpret these findings in the context of prior knowledge and theory, and identify the remaining unanswered questions.
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Learn More2021-11-09 12:00:002021-11-09 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS) | Jessica Fishman, PhD
Validated causal models, methods, and messages for predicting and changing behavior
Jessica Fishman, PhD
Director of the Message Effects Lab, PSOM and Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 12:00-1:00p Eastern
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Abstract: To be shared.
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Learn More2021-11-30 12:00:002021-11-30 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS) | Aliza Narva, JD, MSN, RN, HEC-C
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Aliza Narva, JD, MSN, RN, HEC-C
Director of Ethics, Hospital of the University of Pennylvania (HUP)
Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 12:00-1:00p Eastern
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Abstract: To be shared.
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Learn More2021-12-06 12:00:002021-12-06 13:00:00America/New_YorkResearch Ethics and Policy Series (REPS) | Kim Smith-Whitley, MD
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Kim Smith-Whitley, MD
Clinical Director, Division of Hematology
Director, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Monday, December 6, 12:00-1:00p Eastern
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Abstract: To be shared.
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Learn More2021-12-14 12:00:002021-12-14 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS) | Eric Finkelstein, PhD, MHA
Hope, bias, and survival expectations of advanced cancer patients: A cross‐sectional study
Eric Finkelstein, PhD, MHA
Professor of Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore; Executive Director of the Lien Centre for Palliative Care
Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 12:00-1:00p Eastern
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Abstract: To be shared.
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Learn More2021-12-21 12:00:002021-12-21 13:00:00America/New_YorkPenn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS) | LaKisha T. David, PhD
Evolving African Ethnic Identity and Recognizing Relatedness: An Exploration of Identity Development Among African Americans Using Genetic Genealogy to Find African Relatives
LaKisha T. David, PhD
Postdoctoral ELSI Fellow, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
Tuesday, December 21, 2021, 12:00-1:00p Eastern
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Abstract: African Americans are using genetic genealogy to go beyond the vague estimates of ancestral ethnicities to identify African genetic matches. An African and African American genetic match engaging with one another as relatives presents an emerging situation that challenges our understanding of family identity and ethnic identity. While relatives from Africa share knowledge about their family history and ethnicity with African American genetic relatives, African Americans have new agents of socialization and new information to inform their family identity and ethnic identity. This study uses grounded theory methods to develop a substantial theory on family identity development and ethnic identity development among African Americans who engaged in social interactions with their African genetic relatives. Examining the collective experiences of the participants of this study, participants felt (1) a sense of lack in African ancestral history and (2) an evolving African ethnic identity while (3) recognizing relatedness, and (4) managing many emotions associated with the experience. New family forms are taking shape through emerging African transnational families inclusive of African Americans from the use of genetic genealogy which provides a new social context for family identity development and ethnic identity development for African American adults.
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