Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
Bioethics Bulletin
Editor:
Tim Madigan
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February 1999
Volume Six, Number Two
Co-Directors:
Gerald Logue, MD and Stephen Wear, PhD
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Associate Director:
Jack Freer, MD
Research Associates: Adrianne McEvoy and Larry Torcello
Address: Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
Veteran's Affairs Medical Center
3495 Bailey Avenue Buffalo, NY 14215
Telephone: 862-3412 FAX: 862-4748
Website:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/
Send E-mail to: Wear@acsu.buffalo.edu.
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Newsletter Distribution
This newsletter can be delivered to you via e-mail or fax or over
the internet (forward your request to: Jack Freer, MD at:
jfreer@buffalo.edu).
If you prefer fax, call 862-3412 and
leave your fax number. We encourage and appreciate the use of
e-mail and fax distribution rather than paper for the newsletter.
Center Listservers
The Center now maintains two automated e-mail listservers.
BIOETH-LIST is primarily designed for those in the Greater Buffalo
area and permits subscribers to post to the list. This list is
available for posting local announcements, as well as a medium
for discussion of relevant topics. It will also distribute the
Center newsletter, "Bioethics Bulletin." If you are on this list,
you can send a message to the entire list by addressing the
message to: BIOETH-LIST@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu. Archives
of old BIOETH-LIST messages are maintained at:
http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/bioeth-list.html
BIOBUL-LIST is strictly used for distribution of "Bioethics
Bulletin" and is mainly for those outside of Western New York.
If you have further questions about this service,
contact Jack Freer at 887-4852 or at: jfreer@buffalo.edu.
Upcoming Center Meetings
The Center currently has three committees: Community Affairs,
Education and Research. All Center members are welcome to
participate in these committees.
Reading Group
The Center's Reading Group will meet on Wednesday, February 17 at
4:00 PM. The meeting will be held at the Center for Inquiry,
1310 Sweet Home Road, Amherst. Roger Worthington will speak on "The
patient/physician relationship and current trends in managed
care." There will also be a meeting on Wednesday, March 10 at 4:00
PM at the same location by Monica Spaulding, MD on "Ethical Issues
in Palliative and Long Term Care." If you plan to attend one of
these sessions, please call 862-3412 for copies of relevant
readings.
Upcoming Lectures
Thursday, February 4. "It Was a Wonderful Life: Hidden Homeless
Women." A film following the lives of six "hidden" homeless women
as they struggle to survive and cope with life. The women were
left homeless after a divorce, loss of a job, or a long illness.
Dr. Nancy Chin from the University of Rochester Department of
Community and Preventative Medicine and former Director of the
Medical School's Community Outreach Program will be the discussion
leader. University of Rochester, K-207 (room 2-6408) in the
Medical Center. For details, call Andrea Ehmann at 275-5800.
Wednesday, February 10. "Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary
Investigations into a Possible Alliance." Speaker: Elizabeth Grosz,
Professor in Critical Theory, Philosophy and Women's Studies, and
Director of the Institute for Cultural and Critical Theory at Monash
University, Melbourne, Australia. 2:00 PM, SUNY-Buffalo Center
for the Arts, Amherst Campus. A reception will follow in the
atrium.
Wednesday, February 10. "Invasive Therapy, Reproduction, and
Women's Nature: Social Assumptions and Their Consequences."
Speaker: Laura Purdy, PhD. 4:00 - 5:00 PM. Joint Centre for
Bioethics, 88 College Street, Great Hall, Philippa
Harris Bioethics Library, Toronto. For details, call
416-978-0871.
Thursday, February 18. "Save the Children: Jewish Medical Ethics
and Pediatric Medicine." Speaker: Rabbi Frydman-Kohl, Rabbi of the
Beth Zedec Conservative Synagogue. 3:00 - 4:00 PM. The Hospital
for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, University Wing, 10th
Floor, Bioethics Conference Room, Room 10407, Toronto. Coffee and
kosher refreshments will be served. For details, contact Michelle
Cox, tel: 416-813-5000; e-mail: micheline.cox@sickkids.on.ca.
Wednesday, March 24. The George Washington Corner Society of
Rochester presents a talk on "Blood Clots: the Use of Clot Busters
in the Treatment of Strokes." Speaker: Richard Satran, MD,
professor emeritus of neurology, University of Rochester. 6:30 PM,
Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue, Rochester. The
talk is free and open to all. A dinner follows at 7:30
PM, for which there is a $27.00 charge. If you would like to
attend the dinner, contact Andrea Ehmann at 275-9781.
Wednesday, April 7. The Philippa Harris Lecture on Bioethical
Issues in Cancer will be held on Wednesday, April 7, 1999 at 5:00
PM at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto. The lecture will
take place in the Auditorium (610 University Avenue, 6th Floor).
Joanne Lynn, Director of the Center to Improve Care of the Dying,
Institute for Health Policy, Outcomes, and Human Values at the
George Washington University Medical Center will be speaking on
"When All is Said and Done: Improving End of Life Care." For more
information, contact Margot Smith (e-mail:
margot.smith@utoronto.ca; fax: 416-978-1911; tel: 416-978-0871.
Thursday, April 15-Friday, April 16. Ontario Gerontology
Association 18th Annual Conference. The Colony Hotel Downtown,
Toronto. The 9th Annual GRCO Bayne-Galloway Lecture will be given
by Dr. Rosalie Kane of the University of Minnesota, entitled "Long
Term Care: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." For more information,
call 416-535-6034; fax: 416-535-6907; e-mail:
dvigoda@compuserve.com.
SUNY-Buffalo Spring Clinical Day
The Freshman Medical School Class at SUNY-Buffalo is the first in
the 150 year history of the school to have a majority of women in
the class (69 women vs. 66 men). It is fitting that this year's
Spring Clinical Day topic is "Women's Health Issues." The focus
will be on advances in the identification and treatment of the
common cancers seen in women. Speakers include: Dr. Steven Piver,
Dr. Wende Logan-Young, Dr. Stephen Edge, and Ms. Carolyn Farrell.
The Stockton Kimball Lecturer will be the renowned spokesperson
for women's rights, Betty Friedan. In 1963 she wrote The Feminine
Mystique. Her most recent book, Beyond Gender: The Politics of
Work and Family, reflects the changes in the women's movement in
the 35 years since. For details, call 829-2778.
Position Available
The University of Minnesota invites applications for a faculty
position in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota
Medical School. This position is a tenure track position at the Full,
Associate, or Assistant Professor level, depending on qualifications.
The successful candidate will be an academic physician with a track
record of research in bioethics. Applications received prior to
February 15, 1999 will be assured of full consideration, though
applications will be considered until the position is
filled. For more information, please contact: Dianne Bartels,
Associate Director, Center for Bioethics, N504 Boynton, 410 Church
Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0346; tel: 612-624-9440; fax:
612-624-9108; e-mail: barte001@tc.umn.edu.
Jewish Medical Ethics Conference
The
10th Annual International Conference on Jewish Medical Ethics
will be held on Presidents' Weekend, February 12-15, 1999 at the
Park Plaza Hotel near the San Francisco International Airport.
Among the topics to be discussed is workshop on the role, from
a Jewish perspective, of a physician on a hospital ethics
committee. The workshop leader is Rabbi Lawrence Zierler, who
serves as an ethics committeee member of Heather Hills Hospital,
University Hospitals, and MacDonald Hospital in Cleveland.
Kennedy Institute Course
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics is holding a course on "Ethics
Committees: Changing Roles and Evolving Issues", March 5-7, 1999.
Faculty includes Albert Jonsen, PhD, James F. Childress, PhD,
Robert M. Veatch, PhD, Kevin William Wildes, SJ, PhD, and Edmund
D. Pellegrino, MD. For information, call the Institute at
202-687-5477; fax: 202-687-8089; webpage:
http://guweb.georgetown.edu/kennedy.
Oxford Conference on Family Law
The International Society of Family Law will be holding a
Regional Conference on August 27-30, 1999 at St. Anne's College,
Oxford. Topics include: pre-implantation genetic diagnosis,
genetic engineering, sex selection, cloning, assisted reproductive
technology, embryo research and surrogacy, Council of Europe
Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, family law and
ethics, duties and responsibilities, international legal
collaboration, and practical legal problems. For details, contact
Ruth Deech, Convenor, St. Anne's College, Oxford University,
Oxford, OX2 6HS, UK. Tel: +44=865-274-820; fax: +44-865-274-895;
e-mail: sandra.madley@st-annes.ox.ac.uk.
Members Corner
The Members Corner is designed to note research, presentations
and published articles and books by Center members. Please send
all such information to the newsletter editor so that the Center
can keep members informed about the work occurring in this area.
Wear, S.E. "Enhancing Clinician Provision of Informed Consent and
Counseling: Some Pedagogical Strategies", Journal of Medicine and
Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1999), pp. 34-42.
Comments and Suggestions
Your comments and suggestions regarding this newsletter are
encouraged. Please send them to the Center address, or by e-mail
to the newsletter editor, Tim Madigan
timothymad@aol.com. We
also need information on upcoming events that would be of
interest to Center members. The deadline for the next newsletter
is Febuary 15.