Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
Bioethics Bulletin
Editor:
Tim Madigan
NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS
December 1999
Volume Six, Number Twelve
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.
Upcoming Lectures
Wednesday, December 8. Rochester Interdisciplinary Clinical
Ethics Rounds. "The Uses and Abuses of Compassion: Are There
Times When Doctors Should AvoidEmpathy?" Tim Madigan, PhD. Noon
- 1:00 PM, K-307 (room 3-6408), Universityof Rochester Medical
Center. For further information, contact the Division ofMedical
Humanities and Program in Clinical Ethics office at 275-5800.
Rochester Bioethics Reading Group
The next meeting of the Rochester Bioethics Reading Group will be
held on Thursday, December 9 at 6 PM, at the Colgate Rochester
Divinity School, Kissell Portrait Lounge, first floor of Strong
Hall (please note new location for meetings). Wade Robison,
Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology,
will discuss his paper "The Moral Crisis in Health Care." 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.
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 December 15.
Please send it to: timothymad@aol.com.; phone: 424-3184;
fax: 271-8778.