Welcome
Yale’s Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center focuses its attention on bios or life, and the way we have helped, broken and abused it. Our primary focus has been, and will continue to be, biomedical ethics, but we are increasingly putting time and resources into issues related to ecology, environmental ethics, and care for nonhuman animals. Some current projects relate to research and treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and problems faced by IRBs and the whole IRB system. We have strong interests in questions of health policy, cost containment and justice. We are dedicated to the teaching of ethics and mean to support and improve it in any way possible. Our main sources of support are the Office of the Yale Provost, the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, and The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation.

David H. Smith
Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

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Bioethics at Yale 2009-2010
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Upcoming Events
Tuesday, February 9th at 5:30 PM
The Jerome Medalie End of Life Issues Group
Location: 77 Prospect St room A002
Speaker: David Ross-Russell, MD, ProHealthMD
Discussant: Thomas Duffy
Topic:
Prognostication: Meaning and Interpretation of an Imprecise Science
***CANCELLED***
Wednesday, February 10 at 9 AM
Perspectives on Aging Study Group
Location: 238 Prospect St. conf room
Speaker: Judith Brograd Gordon, PhD, Lecturer in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Topic: Make New Friends, But Keep the Old: Reflections on population aging, mental health, and bioethics
***CANCELLED***
Thursday, February 11 at 4 PM
Biotechnology in Agriculture
Location: KBT, 219 Prospect St, room 102
Speaker: Melinda Smale, Oxfam America
Topic: New Crops, Old Crops: Social and economic dimensions of GM technology in developing agriculture
Please RSVP for study groups to:
bioethics.center@yale.edu
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