Bioethics Society
Yale’s Bioethics Society is an undergraduate-and-graduate-student bioethics interest group. The group hosts speakers on a range of bioethics issues; promotes student awareness of, and participation in, bioethics events both on the Yale campus and beyond; and fosters social interaction among interested students from all parts of campus.
Plan ahead for next semester - for a listing of courses relevant to bioethics, visit the Resources & Links page.
The Bioethics Society’s speakers this term will include (please note that meeting times and locations vary):
September 16th Wendell Wallach
The Ethics and Social Impact of Military Robots
Time: 5:30 -7
Location: Timothy Dwight Common Room
September 24 Philip Wilson, World Society for the Protection of Animals
Securing the Protection of Animals in the Developing World: Special problems
Time: 3-4:30
Location: Davenport Common Room
Co-sponsored by Yale Law School's Animal Defense League
Tuesday September 29th
Student Discussion of the Current Health Care Debate
Time: 5:30-7
October 7th Thomas Pogge, Professor; Philosophy, Political Science, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
Health Impact Fund
Time: 5:30 -7
Location: Davenport Seminar Room
October 14th Bonnie Kaplan, Lecturer in Medical Informatics at the Yale School of Medicine
Bioethical Issues in Medical Informatics
Time: 5:15 - 6:45 PM
October 22 Dr. Hope Ferdowsian, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Belmont 2: Finding universal principles for the
protection of human and animal research subjects
Time: 3-4:30
Location: Timothy Dwight Common Room
October 27th Robert A. Burt, Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and writer on biomedical ethics and constitutional law
Euthanasia: the Court opinions in Glucksberg and Quill
Time: 5 - 6:30 PM
Location: Timothy Dwight Common Room
Pizza and Dessert will be provided!!!!
Co-sponsored by Yale Law Students for Life
November 4
Student Discussion of Physician Assisted Suicide
Time: 5:30 -7
Location: Davenport Seminar Room
Nov 9th or 10th Alyssa Bilinski, Yale College Student
The Efficiency of Prevention
Time: 5:30 -7
Location: Davenport Seminar Room
November 16th Dr. Jonathan Borak
Risk Assessment
Time: 5:30 -7
Location: Davenport Seminar Room
January 29th - BIOETHICS DAY!
Time: 1-5 PM
Location: LC 102
3 panels with refreshments in between. The topics are Euthanasia, Reproductive Rights, and Stem Cells.
To contact the Society, email thebioethicssocietyatyale@gmail.com.
Current students can contact the Bioethics Society’s officers. Click here to go to the Special Interest campus groups page, then click on “Officers” next to the Bioethics Society and use your Yale ID and Password to click through to the list of officers and their e-mails.
Any registered Yale student can also join the Bioethics Society by e-mailing its faculty advisor, Stephen Latham, at Stephen.Latham@yale.edu or by emailing bioethics.center@yale.edu. We will add your e-mail address to the student-run e-mail group, and you’ll be apprised of upcoming Society events.
