Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
Bioethics Bulletin
Editor:
Tim Madigan
NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS
October 1999
Volume Six, Number Ten
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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If you prefer fax, call 862-3412 and
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Center Listservers
The Center now maintains two automated e-mail listservers.
BIOETH-LIST is primarily designed for those in the Greater Buffalo
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available for posting local announcements, as well as a medium
for discussion of relevant topics. It will also distribute the
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BIOBUL-LIST is strictly used for distribution of "Bioethics
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If you have further questions about this service,
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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
Sunday, October 13. The Annual Membership Meeting of the Greater
Buffalo Memorial Society, Inc., 2:30 PM. Speaker: Timothy R.
Lovallo, partner in the law firm of Lovallo-Williams, past
president of New York State Common Cause and Chairman of the
Erie County Board of Ethics. Mr. Lovallo will speak on "Elder
Law." Free and open to the public. Place: Center for Inquiry,
1310 Sweethome Road, Amherst.
Thursday, October 21. City-Wide Grand Rounds, Department of
Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences,
SUNY-Buffalo. "Symptoms Without an Obvious Cause: When Doctors
Blame Patients." 3:30 PM, Buffalo Marriott Hotel, 1340
Millersport Highway, Amherst. Speakers: M. Peter Lance, MD:
"Abdominal Pain: Who Has An Ulcer?"; Margo J. Krasnoff, MD:
"Domestic Violence: When to Suspect It and What to Do"; John
Hay, PhD: "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Psychological Disorder or
Not?"; Robert M. Swift, MD, PhD: "Recognition and Management of
Depression for the Internist".
Friday, November 12. Professor Dennis Patterson of Rutgers
University will speak on "Normativity, Objectivity and Law."
4:00 PM, SUNY-Buffalo North Campus, Park Hall, Room 141.
Thursday, November 18. Professor Moira Howes, Visiting Assistant
Professor, Department of Philosophy at SUNY-Buffalo will speak on
"Words in Plenty, and No Knowledge of Healing: Cause,
Explanation, and Alternative Medicine", 4:00 PM, SUNY-Buffalo
North Campus, Park Hall, Room 141.
Rochester Bioethics Reading Group
The next meeting of the Rochester Bioethics Reading Group will be held on
Thursday, September 16 at 5:30 PM, at the Colgate Rochester Divinity School,
Kissell Portrait Lounge, first floor of Strong Hall (please note new location
for meetings). Larry Torcello, graduate student in philosophy at SUNY-Buffalo
and Stephen Wear, PhD, co-director of the SUNY-Buffalo Center for Clinical
Ethics and Humanities in Health Care, will discuss their joint paper "The
Commercialization of Human Body Parts: A Re-Appraisal from a Protestant
Perspective", which will appear in the Journal of Christian Bioethics.
The speaker at the next meeting will be Richard Taylor, professor emeritus of
philosophy at the University of Rochester, who will discuss his paper
"Reproductive Medicine and Ethics", which appeared in the Spring 1999 issue
of Free Inquiry magazine. The meeting will take place on Thursday, October
21 at the same location and time as above.
For further information on the meetings, or for a copy of the papers to be
discussed, please contact Tim Madigan at 716-424-3184; e-mail:
timothymad@aol.com.
AIDS Conference
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.
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International Conference on 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 will 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: www.apfmed.org/bioethics.
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
The second annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics
and Humanities will be held at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 28-31. The Society promotes
interest in bioethics and humanities through teaching,
scholarship, collegiality, and career development. For
information on the conference, call 847-375-4745.
Workshop on Ethics Consultation
Saturday, November 13. "Ethics Consultation: The Basics." Bunts
Auditorium, The Cleveland Clinic Educational Foundation,
Cleveland, Ohio, 8:20 AM - 4:30 PM. Faculty: George J. Agich,
PhD, F. J. O'Neill Chair in Clinical Bioethics and Chairman,
Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation and
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,
Ohio State University; Martin T. Smith, STD, Staff Bioethicist,
Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Jacquelyn
Slomka, RN, PhD, Staff Bioethicist, Department of Bioethics,
Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Assistant Professor of Clinical
Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University.
Cost: $150.00. For information, call 800-955-6111, webpage:
www.ClevelandClinic.org/education/cme.
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.
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.
Timothy Madigan was guest editor of the Fall 1999 issue of Free
Inquiry magazine special section entitled "Bioethics and the
Human Condition." In addition to interviewing Arthur Caplan,
Director of the Center for Bioethics and Trustee Professor of
Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, Madigan also wrote
an article for the issue entitled "Forward to Methusaleh: Ethical
Dilemmas of Life Extension Techniques."
Comments and Suggestions
The deadline for material for the next newsletter is October 15.
Please send it to: timothymad@aol.com.; phone: 424-3184;
fax: 271-8778.