Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
Bioethics Bulletin
Editor:
Tim Madigan
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July 1999
Volume Six, Number Seven
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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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.
Rochester Biomedical Ethics Reading Group
A new Reading Group in Biomedical Ethics has started in
Rochester. The fourth meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 21
at 5:00 PM, at Strong Memorial Hospital, Old Faxon Room. Jane
Greenlaw, director of the Strong Memorial Hospital's Center for
Medical Humanities, will lead a discussion on the ethics of
taking sperm from corpses. For further information on the
meeting,
contact Tim Madigan at 424-3184; e-mail: timothymad@aol.com.
Upcoming Lectures
International Conference on Jewish Bioethics
The
Second Annual International Conference on "Jewish
Perspectives on Bioethics in the 21st Century" will be held at
Boston University's
George Sherman Union , 775 Commonwealth
Avenue, on Sunday, October 10 and Monday, October 11, 1999.
Special guest speaker wil be Rabbi Lord Immanuel Jakobovits
of Great Britain. Keynote speakers include: Rabbi Elliot Dorff,
PhD, University of Judaism; Rosalie Ber, MD, DSc,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; Baruch Brody, PhD,
Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor University;
Fred Rosner, MD, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Noam Zohar,
PhD, Bar Ilan University; Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, Jewish
Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh; and Shoshana Cardin,
Wilstein Institute. To receive registration materials and
additional information, contact:
American Physicians Fellowship for Medicine in Israel,
2001 Beacon Street, Suite 210,.
Boston, MA 02135; phone: 617-232-5382; e-mail:
bioethics@apfmed.org.
Online registration and information:
http://www.apfmed.org/bioethics/register.html.
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.
Call for Papers
"Writing the Past, Claiming the Future: Women and Gender in
Science, Medicine, and Technology: October 12-15, 2000,
St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO. This conference is designed to
further conversations begun at previous conferences among
historians of science, medicine, and technology. These
discussions made explicit how much historians of science,
medicine, and technology can learn from each other. It is
intended to invite greater interchange among the disciplines,
while recognizing the uniqueness of each. Conference themes will
include, but not be limited to, personal and external factors
that empower or inhibit women's participation in the scientific,
medical, and technological disciplines; scientific, medicla, and
technological ideas that have influenced ideas about gender and
gender roles in the disciplines and in the wider society; and
the relationship between gender and conceptions of knowledge and
the practice of science, medicine, and technology. Proposals
must include two copies of a one-page abstract and a one-page
curriculum vitae. For proposals submitted as a panel, an abstract
and vitae are required for each panel member. Proposals are due
by January 1, 2000. If you have any questions or would like to be
put on the mailing list to receive the conference brochure,
please contact Charlotte G. Borst, Chair, Local Arrangements
Committee, Dept. of History, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
63156.
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, Stephen, Freer, Jack and Koczwara, Bogda; "The Commercialization of Human
Body Parts: Public Policy Considerations"; in
Persons and Their Bodies:
Rights, Responsibilities and Relationships; edited by T. Bole and M. Cherry;
Dordrecht, Holland:
Kluwer Academic Publishers; 1999, pp. 363-383.
Comments and Suggestions
The deadline for material for the next newsletter is July 15.
Please send it to: timothymad@aol.com.; phone: 424-3184;
fax: 271-8778.