Editor: Tim Madigan
January 1996
Volume Three, Number One
Telephone: 862-3412 FAX: 862-4748
E-mail sent to Lisa BoltenLBolten@ubmedc.buffalo.edu.
"Survivors of Childhood Cancer." Presenter: Lawrence Golden, MD. Monday, January 15, 8:00 AM. Pediatrics Grand Rounds - Sponsored by the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo through the Department of Pediatrics. Kinch Auditorium, Children's Hospital, 219 Bryant Street. Approved for 1.0 hours of AMA/PRA Category 1 credit. For further information, contact Marcia Chelminiak, Office of Pediatric Medical Education, 878-7355.
Richard J. Lanham, MD, will speak on chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome during a meeting of the Western New York Sjogren's Syndrome Support Group, Wednesday, January 17 at 7:00 PM, in the LL Conference Room at Kenmore Mercy Hospital. The lecture is open to the public. For more information, call 874-0986.
"Impaired Physicians and Other Medical Professionals." Presenter: Peter Manusky, MD. Monday, January 22, 8:45 AM. Sponsored by the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo through the Department of Medicine. Webster Hall, Millard Fillmore Hospital. Approved for 1 credit hour of AMA/PRA Category 1 credit. Call Nancy Mack at 887-4694 for further information.
Fifth Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. February 29-March 2. To be held at the Stouffer Renaissance Hotel, St. Louis, MO. Deadline for advance registration is January 15. For information about the conference, contact: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, 410 North Park Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405; phone: 812-855-6450; fax: 812-855-3315; appe@indiana.edu. "Protecting the Vulnerable: Public Policy and Human Experimentation." April 18-19; sponsored by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. For information, contact: Jonathan Moreno, PhD jmoreno@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu. at 215-898-7136.
New York State Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Conference. April 18-19. Co-sponsored by Hospice Buffalo. Sheraton Inn, Buffalo. Guest speakers include Rabbi Dr. Earl Grollman, Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, and Wanda Henry-Jenkins, MHS. The conference will focus on helping personal sorrow, public support and addressing children's needs. Registration includes a luncheon, breaks and materials. The conference will be held from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM on April 18 and 19. Save money by registering before March 1. To attend one day, the fee is $50; for both days, the fee is $90. After March 1, the fee for one day is $75 or $115 for both days. For further information or to receive a conference brochure, call 1-800-336-7437 or 837-7438.
In addition, Richard Hull, professor of philosophy at the University of Buffalo and visiting scholar at Buffalo General Hospital, will be offering a semester-long course at Buffalo General Hospital, Wednesday evenings from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM in Advanced Biomedical Ethics. It will meet in the Board of Trustees Room, E-Building, First Floor, starting January 24. Hull is particularly interested in getting interns, residents, nurse practitioners, hospital administrators and persons in medical law involved, as well as philosophy graduate students. Variable credits are available, and anyone is welcome to audit who will do the readings and participate in discussions. For information, contact Hull phirhull@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu. at 645-2444, extension 722.
Conference on Value Inquiry: Inherent and Instrumental Values. The 24th Conference on Value Inquiry will be held at D'Youville College, April 18-20, 1996. Broad participation is sought. Papers and abstracts of papers that address issues concerning inherent and instrumental values are welcome. Early submission is advised. Papers may be practically or theoretically oriented. Treatment of the topic may be disciplinary and address arguments within a single field of value inquiry such as ethics, law, politics, aesthetics, health care, business, or education. Papers may also be interdisciplinary and examine inherent and instrumental values from two or more fields of inquiry. A selection of papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication. Contact: John Abbarno, Coordinator, 24th Conference on Value Inquiry, Dept. of Philosophy, D'Youville College, 320 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, New York, 14201. Telephone: 716-881-3200, extension 6540. Fax: 716-881- 7760.
The Society for Health and Human Values invites papers of no more than 12 pages for its 1996 Spring Meeting, "Stories and Their Limits: Putting The Ethics Into Narrative Ethics," to be held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 11-13, 1996. Submissions deadline: January 15. For information, contact Hilde L. Nelson, Center for Applied and Professional Ethics, 801 McClung Tower, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996; or call 615-974-3255.
The Society for Health and Human Values also calls for abstracts for its joint meeting with the Society for Bioethics Consultation, on "Health Care, Ethics, and Humanities: From Our Past to Our Future," to be held October 10-13 at the Sheraton City Center Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. Deadline for conference workshops is March 15; for papers, and section and interest group programs, the deadline is April 15. Papers and workshops are welcome on topics related to health sciences and the humanities, including but not limited to: ethics, philosophy, religious studies, literature, history, creative arts, law, social science, clinical ethics, education evaluation, and health policy studies related to the humanistic aspects of health care education and practice. For more information, contact the SHHV national office, 703-556-9222.
A conference honoring University at Buffalo English Professor Leslie Fiedler will be held at Northern Illinois University, March 29-31. Fiedler will give the keynote address, and presentations will be held devoted to his work. Topics include "Twenty Years of Freaks", "Huckleberry Finn and Political Correctness", and "The Mythology of Bioethics." For information on the conference, contact Department of English, Northern Illinois University jwaite@niu.edu, DeKalb, IL 60115; phone: 815-753-0611; fax: 815-753-0606; The Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care is planning its own symposium in honoring of Fiedler's upcoming book The Tyranny of the Normal, and sends its sincerest condolences to him for the recent fire which destroyed many of his manuscripts and belongings.
Stephen Wear, PhD, Benjamin Phillips, RN, Sally |Shimmel, RN and John Banas, MD had an article entitled "Developing and Implementing a Medical Futility Policy: One Institution's Experience" published in the Winter 1995 Community Ethics: The Newsletter of the Consortium Ethics Program, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 2-5. If anyone is interested in a copy, please contact the Center.
Wayne Waz, MD and Jennifer Henkind, MD published "the Adequacy of Medical
Ethics Education in a Pediatrics Tranining Program" in Academic
Medicine; Vol. 70 (1995), pp. 1041-43.