Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
Bioethics Bulletin
Editor:
Tim Madigan
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August 1999
Volume Six, Number Eight
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.
Hospice Conference
"Regaining Lost Ground: Doctors, Death and Dignity, Conference
II." Friday and Saturday, September 24-25, at the historic
Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. Featured speakers
include: Robert Buckman, MD, associate professor of Medicine at
the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine; Lachlan Forrow,
MD, assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School;
Gerritt Kimsma, MD, associate professor of Medical Ethics, Vrije
University, the Netherlands; Robert Milch, MD, medical director,
The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care; Jan Poulson, MD,
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Faculty of
Medicine; and Timothy Quill, MD, professor of Medicine and
Psychiatry, University of Rochester. Small group discussions
include: "Pain Management in the Terminally Ill," "Medical
Futility," "Physician-Assisted Suicide," "Family Expectations,"
"Palliative Care," and special sessions for surgeons and critical
care professionals. In addition to the workshop, attendees will
enjoy a 36-hole golf course, sightseeing/shopping tours of
antique shops and wine-tasting as well as walks or bus tours of
the Chautauqua grounds. The registration fee of $225.00 before
August 15 ($250 after August 15) includes the seminar, syllabus
materials, refreshment breaks, two continental breakfasts, two
lunches, and dinner Friday evening.
Physicians-in-training/students can attend for $100.00. Call
1-800-352-2553 to register. Room reservations can be made by
contacting the Athenaeum Hotel at 1-800-821-1881. Please
reference the "Doctors, Death and Dignity" conference to receive
the special room rate.
Rochester Bioethics Reading Group
The fifth meeting of the Rochester Bioethics Reading Group will
be held on Wednesday, August 18 at 5:30 PM, at Strong Memorial
Hospital, Old Faxon Room (1-7023). Jeffrey Spike, Ph.D., of the
Strong Memorial Hospital's Center for Medical Humanities, will
lead a discussion on his article "Physicians' Responsibilities in
the Care of Suicidal Patients" (Journal of Clinical Ethics,
Fall 1998, pp. 306-313). For further information on the meeting,
or for a copy of the paper, please
contact Tim Madigan at 424-3184; e-mail: timothymad@aol.com.
Waterfront Reception
The community is invited to attend the McMullen Family Waterfront
Reception at the Westside Rowing Club at the foot of Porter
Avenue, Buffalo, on Friday, August 20. The Reception follows the
8th annual McMullen Golf Tournament and will begin with cocktails
at 6:00 PM and dinner at 7:00 PM. The cost is $45.00 per person
or $80.00 per couple. For more information, call the
Hospice Foundation at 686-8090. This year's proceeds will benefit
Essential Care, a program for children who are facing
life-threatening illnesses.
Physicians and MediCaring
The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care and Buffalo Oxygen
will be hosting an informational dinner on
MediCaring, Tuesday,
August 31.
MediCaring is a national demonstration project
available at 12 sites throughout the country. In New York, CHPC
is the only site offering MediCaring Programs for patients with
CHF and COPD through Home Care Buffalo, the certified home health
agency of CHPC, and Hospice Buffalo Home Care. For more
information, call Catherine Mann, MS, RN, at 686-8172.
Upcoming Lectures
Building Bridges
Author David Kessler will headline a full day conference designed
for health care professionals and individuals concerned with HIV
and AIDS. "Building Bridges: Hope and Hospice in the Age of AIDS"
will be held on Friday, October 8, at the Center for Hospice and
Palliative Care, 225 Como Park Blvd, from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM. The
lecture is sponsored by the Tides Foundation. Kessler's keynote
speech will address "The Rights of the Dying: Compassion and
Empowerment at the End of Life." He will discuss the 17 rights of
the dying that Kessler believes all people deserve at the end of
life. Kessler is the author of
The Rights of the Dying: A
Companion for Life's Final Moments and co-author with Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross, MD of Lessons From the Edge of Life: Two Experts on
Death and Dying Teach Us About Life Itself, which is due out
next year. Registration for the conference is $15.00 per person
and includes a continental breakfast, breaks, materials and
lunch. To register, call Life
Transitions Center at 836-6460.
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.
Job Opening
The
Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia is
searching for a
physician-ethicist at the Assistant
Professor/Associate Professor level. This will be a joint
appointment between the Center for Biomedical Ethics and the
appropriate clinical department, with 60 percent time assigned to
the Center. Responsibilities associated with the position will
include: teaching in the School of Medicine, in the new Master's
Program in Bioethics, and in other Center programs; developing a
funded research program in co-operation with other Center and
School of Medicine programs and faculty; assisting in support of
the hospital Ethics Consultation Service; serving the Center, the
School of Medicine and the University on faculty governance
bodies; and other responsibilities as assigned by the Director of
the Center. Send nominations or applications with a cover letter,
curriculum vitae, and the names and addresses of three references
and a sample of published work to: Search Committee, Center for
Biomedical Ethics, The University of Virginia, Box 348 Health
Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908. The deadline
for receipt of applications is October 15, 1999.
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 August 15.
Please send it to: timothymad@aol.com.; phone: 424-3184;
fax: 271-8778.