Penn Bioethics Seminar | Stephanie Morain, PhD, MPH
Reexamining the ethics of dual-role consent https://zoom.us/j/865415752 Classic statements of research ethics advise against permitting physician-investigators to...
Penn Bioethics Seminar | Ulf Schmidt
Seven Days that Changed the World: The Salisbury Nerve Agent Attack and its Aftermath Ulf Schmidt is Professor of Modern History, Director of the Centre for the History of...
Penn Bioethics Seminar | Vardit Ravitsky, PhD
Reproductive ethics: a critical historical view and the challenge of prioritizing While certain aspects of reproductive ethics, such as abortion or contraception, go back...
Penn Collaboration Lands in Top 100 Proposals for MacArthur Foundation 100&Change Competition
A proposal spearheaded by the University of Pennsylvania has been named in the Top 100 in the MacArthur Foundation 100&Change competition, which offers a single $100 million...
Penn dementia expert on newly approved Alzheimer’s drug: ‘The data aren’t strong enough’
From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Well before the FDA approved aducanumab, the first new Alzheimer’s drug since 2003, many dementia experts were lining up to criticize the...
Penn Development Research Initiative Launches
Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy Harsha Thirumurthy and Guy Grossman (Political Science, School of Arts & Sciences) have launched the Penn Development...
Penn Ethicist Proposes New Category for Psychiatric Patients to Justify Instances of Compulsory Treatment
The “involuntary treatment” of unwilling psychiatric patients has long been accepted as necessary in some cases, for the sake of patients and society, though it can raise...
Penn Master of Bioethics Program 20th Anniversary Celebration
Colloquium: David Magnus, PhD "Facing the Changing Ethical Landscape of Transplantation." Dr. Magnus is the Founding Director of the MBE Program.