Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
Bioethics Bulletin
Editor:
Tim Madigan
NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS
November 1999
Volume Six, Number Eleven
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
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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
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of old BIOETH-LIST messages are maintained at:
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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
NOTE NEW DATE:
Thursday, December 2. 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.
Monday, November 15. "Should the Baby Live? The Problem of
Handicapped Infants." A Panel Discussion of the Views of
Princeton Philosopher Peter Singer. 4 PM - 6 PM, 104 O'Brian
(Moot Court), North Campus, SUNY-Buffalo Amherst Campus. The
Panel: Peter H. Hare, SUNY-Buffalo/Philosophy; Moira Howes,
SUNY-Buffalo/Philosophy; Lamont Johnson, Canisius
College/Philosophy; Barry Smith, SUNY-Buffalo/Philosophy; Vicki
Toscano, SUNY-Buffalo/Philosophy. Free and open to the public.
NOTE NEW DATE:
Thursday, December 2. 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, November 18 at 5:30 PM, at the Colgate
Rochester Divinity School, Kissell Portrait Lounge, first floor
of Strong Hall (please note new location for meetings). It will
discuss the article "Autonomy and Paternalism in Communitarian
Society: Patient Rights in Israel", by Michael L. Gross, MD,
from the July-August 1999 Hastings Center Report (vol. 29, no. 4,
pp. 13-20). 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.
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.
Symposium on Bioethics in the Urban Context
"Bioethics in the Urban Context: A National Symposium", sponsored
by the Center for Urban Bioethics of the New York Academy of
Medicine, December 2 and 3, 1999, at the New York Academy of
Medicine. Registration information can be received by contacting
Sharon Meekin, MPH: bioethicssymposium@nyam.org.
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.
Comments and Suggestions
The deadline for material for the next newsletter is November 15.
Please send it to: timothymad@aol.com.; phone: 424-3184;
fax: 271-8778.