June 1999
Volume Six, Number Six
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: 862-6563 FAX: 862-5649 or 862-8533
Website:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/
Send E-mail to: Wear@acsu.buffalo.edu.
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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.
Upcoming Lectures
Friday, June 4. Symposium: "Controversies in Medical Ethics:
Jewish, Secular, and Legal Perspectives", 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, The
Joseph E. and Minnie Wagman Centre, 55 Ameer Avenue, Toronto.
The keynote lecture, "Jewish and Secular Perspectives on Dying,
Death and Suicide" is by Dr. Paul Root Wolpe, Associate
Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of
Pennsylvania. For information, contact Lenora Winer, Education
and Organizational Development Department, Baycrest Centre for
Geriatric Care, 3560 Bathurst Street, North York, Ontario
M6A 2E1; tel: 416-785-2500, ext. 2365.
Thursday, June 10. City-Wide Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, SUNY-Buffalo. 3:30 PM, Buffalo Marriott Hotel, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst. Speakers: Gerald Logue, MD, Professor of Medicine; Richard Sarkin, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics; Alan Saltzman, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine; Murray Ettinger, PhD, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Biochemistry; Richard Schifeling, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine; Diane Schwartz, MLS, Research Associate Professor of Medicine and Family Medicine; Timothy Gabriel, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. Topics: "Can Evaluating Medical Learners be Made Easy and Fun?", "Problem-Based Learning: An Alternative to Didactic Methods", "Feedback to the Resident", and "Teaching in the Ambulatory Setting." Please RSVP to: Marie Wysocki, phone: 898-3941; fax: 898-3279.
Wednesday, June 16. "The Fiercely Independent-Dependent Patient." A physician and social worker confront ethical issues when patient refuses assistance and family caregiver wants physician to order assistance for protection of the patient. Kenmore Mercy Ethics Educational Session, 8:00 AM. Community Room-Kenmore Mercy Hospital, 2950 Elmwood Avenue, Kenmore.
Glenn McGee, bioethics and philosophy professor from the University of Pennsylvania, will be the guest on the "Oprah Winfrey Show", airing on Tuesday, June 1st in most major markets. Lori Andrews of Chicago-Kent School of Law will also be a participant in the discussion of the relationship between social and personal practices, culture, and medicine in the area of infertility. For further details, contact Glenn McGee at: mcgee@mail.med.upenn.edu.
Stephen Wear: "Enhancing Clinician Provision of Informed Consent and Counseling: Some Pedagogical Strategies", Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1999), pp. 34-42. This article is part of a section that includes a case presentation, and commentaries on the case by Edmund Erde and Howard Brody, as well as Wear.
David Nyberg, professor of education at SUNY-Buffalo, will present a paper on "An Aptitude for Empathy: Moral Philosophy and the Scientific Basis of Medical Practice", at the Fifth International Conference on Philosophy in Practice, Wadham College, Oxford University, July 27-30.