the minnesota centerann m. bauer, in minnesota monthly, january 2005,52-59. the center proudly...

The stars must have been in alignment in 1985.

“There was a sense of excitement, a spirit of collegiality,”

said Mila Aroskar, Professor Emerita and first Director

of Graduate Studies in the Center. “It was as if the

University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics was

meant to be.”

Prior to 1985, bioethics education in the health sciences

at the University of Minnesota consisted of a spring

quarter lecture series sponsored by the multidisciplinary

Student Committee on Bioethics. The lectures were not

providing the ethics education students and faculty

wanted so they requested additional resources. The Vice

President for Health Sciences at the time, Neal Vanselow,

responded by appointing a University-wide task force

to consider the request. The task force recommended

centralizing and using available University ethics

resources, and created a mission statement that

described a center that would address “newly emerging

biomedical ethics questions and developing dilemmas

in health care delivery.”

Dr. Vanselow, mission statement in hand, requested

and almost immediately received start-up funding from

the Northwest Area Foundation. Paul Quie, MD,

accepted the position of Interim Director, and the rest,

as they say, is history.

The Center’s twentieth anniversary creates an opportunity

to look at how the issues, the field of bioethics, and the

Center have changed over its history. For example,

The Minnesota Center for Bioethics at 20: Coming of Age in MinnesotaBy Dianne Bartels, RN, MA, PhD

The year 2005 will mark the 20th anniversary of the

founding of the Center for Bioethics. This makes this

year an auspicious occasion and milestone not only

for the Center and the University of Minnesota,

but is a sign of the evolution and maturation

of the field of bioethics—an evolution in which

the Center has played an integral part.

Since this is our anniversary year, the entire volume

of the Examiner will be devoted to discussion of the

Center’s past, present and future and to the issues we

continue to address. As the lead article in this issue of

the Examiner details, the Center has been an important

hub for discussion, research and policy recommendations

on the important bioethics issues over the last two decades.

Dianne Bartels outlines the

early history of the Center—

how it got its start and who

were the key early

proponents of bioethics

at the University, helping

to launch the Center

and fostering its fledgling

efforts. She also highlights

some of the issues the

Center took on in its early days, making clear that

our mission from the beginning has included the

examination of pressing and controversial issues.

The spring issue of the Examiner will feature an

assessment of the state of the field of bioethics by

From the Director ...

Twenty and CountingBy Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH

In this issue:

Center News

Page 2

2004 Minnesotan

of the Year -

Steven Miles

Page 3

A Look Back —

1985–1993

Page 4

Recent Faculty

Publications

Page 6

Calendar of Events

Page 7

Continued on Pages 4–5

Bioethics ExaminerA Publication Exploring Issues in Bioethics

Winter 2005

Volume 8

Issue 3

Continued on Page 2

Jeffrey Kahn

in the early 1980s AIDS was an emerging issue, end of

life decision-making was a new area, and managed care

was a novel approach to a growing problem of rising

health care costs.

A Center-sponsored conference in 1986, AIDS: Medical

Facts, Social Challenges and Ethical Dilemmas, was the

first AIDS education effort in the country to address

ethical, as well as medical challenges of this new and

frightening disease. AIDS raised questions not only

about how health care decisions would be made for

AIDS patients, but for other terminally ill individuals.

Concerns about death and dying prompted a number

of recommendations for respecting and maintaining

control of one’s own health care decisions.

In 1987, Arthur Caplan became the Center’s first

full-time director. Mila Aroskar, Dianne Bartels,

Muriel Bebeau, and Ronald Cranford, all of whom

were members of the original task force, have continued

to be active over the succeeding twenty years of the

Center’s efforts to address challenges in bioethics.

“Right to die” cases advanced through the courts and

established legal support for patient and family control

over end of life care. Ronald Cranford, a neurologist

who studied brain injury, advocated for patients and

their families in many of these cases. Steven Miles

was the physician who cared for Helga Wanglie as

the hospital and her family disagreed over who should

make end of life decisions on her behalf, a question

that would eventually end up in the Minnesota courts.

In 1992, the Center convened a conference, Managing

Mortality: Ethics, Euthanasia and Termination of Medical

Treatment, to address ongoing concerns about end

of life issues. This conference gave health care

professionals and community members an opportunity

to hear the voices of professionals and families who

had been actively involved in landmark right to die

cases. Speakers described their ethical perspectives

and the profound personal impact of their

involvement in the processes of decision-making

in this uncharted territory.

These are just a few examples of the pioneering work

of the Center and its faculty and staff. Twenty years ago,

those involved in founding the Center would have had

a hard time imagining bioethics as it has evolved at the

University of Minnesota. Today the Center for Bioethics

is a home for thirty regular and affiliated faculty.

Graduates, trainees, and visitors now populate

numerous universities and research institutions across

the country and around the world. The Center’s impact

over its twenty year history is hard to measure, but by

any account it played an important role in the evolving

field of bioethics, a legacy we all hope will continue over

the next twenty years.

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These are just a few

examples of the pioneering

work of the Center and

its faculty and staff.

Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD, has been elected

as a Fellow to the American Academy of Nursing.

Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, has been elected as

member-at-large of the American Association for

the Advancement of Science: Committee of the Section

on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering.

Check out the new and improved Resource Center webpage

(www.bioethics.umn.edu/resources/) with a new,

user-friendly design. Now it is easier to connect with

the issues and information that interest you most.

You will find new short summaries on organ

transplantation, resource allocation, and reproductive

technologies. See our new Bioethics Overview on

End of Life Care: An Ethical Overview on page 8.

Center News

Save the DateCenter for Bioethics Celebrates 20 Years

May 18, 2005

McNamara Alumni Center

The Center will host a symposium celebrating the Center’s 20th

anniversary, including reflections on the Center’s contributions

to the development and growth of the field of bioethics. Features

will include the Center’s place in a “genealogy of bioethics,”

showing the relationship of the Center, its faculty, and students

to the development of the field, and highlights of past and present

work by the Center and its faculty.

Speakers will include:

Mila Aroskar, RN, EdD; Dianne Bartels, RN, MA, PhD; Arthur Caplan, PhD;

Frank Cerra, MD; Ronald Cranford, MD; Debra DeBruin, PhD; Carl Elliott, MD,

PhD; Kathy Faber-Langendoen, MD; Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH;

Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD; Steven Miles, MD; John Song, MD;

Maryam Valapour, MD; Susan Wolf, JD, and a number of students

and visiting scholars who have worked or studied in the Center.

SPACE IS LIMITED AND PRE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

For information, please contact the Center at 612-624-9440.

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. . . His work has saved countless elderly patients from

medical mishaps and the hazards of institutionalized care.

He’s traveled around the world to treat refugees with

TB and HIV. He authored the Do-Not-Resuscitate order

that allows people to die with dignity and helped develop

the MinnesotaCare program. Last year, he uncovered

physician complicity in the torture of prisoners at Abu

Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. What is this guy— some

kind of secular saint? Not quite. He’s chronically late,

a little moody, absentminded, and stubborn. Also, he tends

to mumble. But it’s worth hearing what Dr. Steven Miles

has to say.

–An excerpt from the article authored by

Ann M. Bauer, in Minnesota Monthly,

January 2005, 52-59.

The Center proudly salutes our colleague, Steven Miles,

MD, who was named 2004 Minnesotan of the Year by

Minnesota Monthly magazine. Steve Miles is an admired

leader in the bioethics community. His work has

exemplified a commitment to human rights issues at

a local, national, and international level throughout his

career. Steve is a master teacher, role model, and mentor.

His work in bioethics is focused on patients’ rights

to make health care decisions throughout their lifespan

and at the end of their lives. He was among the first

physicians and bioethicists in the United States to call

for a universal right to health care. He is an articulate

and prolific spokesperson and scholar who has focused

on changing public policy. Congratulations to Steve

for a well-deserved honor!

Steven Miles, MD

Professor,

Center for Bioethics and

Department of Medicine,

University of Minnesota

Attending Physician,

Fairview-University

Medical Center

Steven Miles–2004 Minnesotan of the YearMinnesota Monthly, January 2005.

Selected Publications

Book

Miles S. The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of

Medicine, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Articles

Miles S. Medical Ethicists, Human Curiosities,

and the New Media Midway. American Journal

of Bioethics 2004;4(3):39-43.

Miles S. Abu Ghraib: Its Legacy for Military Medicine.

Lancet 2004;364:725-29.

Oguz Y, Miles S, Buken N, Civaner N. End of Life Care

in Turkey. Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics

2003;3:279-84.

Dula A, Royal C, Gray Secundy M, Miles S.

The Ethical and Social Implications of Exploring

African American Genealogies. Developing World

Bioethics 2003;3:133-142.

Miles S, Ololo H. Traditional Surgeons in Sub-Saharan

Africa: Images from South Sudan. International Journal

of STDs and AIDS 2003;14:505-08.

Center C, Miles S, Silverman M [Planning Group

on Physician Depression and Suicide of the American

Foundation for Suicide Prevention]. Confronting

Depression and Suicide in Physicians: A Consensus

Statement. JAMA 2003;289:3161-3166.

Miles S. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the

Bioethics Imagination. American Journal of Bioethics

2003;3:12.

Oguz Y, Miles S, Buken N, Civaner N. End of Life Care

in Turkey. Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics

2003;3:279-84.

Available soon

in paperback from

New York, NY: Oxford

University Press, 2004

Miles S. The Hippocratic

Oath and the Ethics

of Medicine.

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The Center for Bioethics has been an important hub for

discussion, research and policy recommendations on the

important bioethics issues over the last two decades.

This issue and the next two issues of the Bioethics Examiner

will highlight key events in the Center’s twenty year history.

In this issue, we highlight events from 1985–1993.

Center for Biomedical

Ethics established with

a $300,000 grant from

the Northwest Area

Foundation.

Paul Quie, MD,

appointed Interim Director.

The Center sponsors

conference on

“AIDS: Medical Facts,

Social Challenges,

Ethical Dilemmas.”

Dianne Bartels, RN, MA,

appointed Interim Director.

First Center newsletter,

The Messenger.

Arthur Caplan, PhD,

appointed Director.

Visiting Scholars

Program established.

Center receives funding

from the Deinard Memorial

Law and Medicine fund

to implement an annual

seminar on health,

law and ethics.

First Annual Bioethics

Retreat in Lutsen, MN

hosted by the Center.

More than 50 national

and international

participants working full–

time in the area of bioethics

attended the retreat.

“The Meaning of the

Holocaust for Bioethics”

conference. Participants

represented 15 countries.

Launched bi-monthly ethics

rounds in the University

of Minnesota (UM) Medical

School’s Department of

Medicine and held monthly

ethics case conferences

at Abbott Northwestern

Hospital.

Director Arthur Caplan

writes a weekly column

on ethical issues in health

care for the St. Paul

Pioneer Press Dispatch,

syndicated nationally.

Community Advisory Council

and Research & Education

Council initiated.

our colleague Steve Miles, whose advocacy positions

and unique perspective issues in ethics, medicine

and the broader society have made him a leader

in the field for about as long as the Center has existed.

In the fall issue Carl Elliott will ponder the future

of bioethics; what issues should demand our attention

and what we might do about them.

In addition to feature articles, this year’s Examiner

will feature a timeline chronicling twenty years of

Center events and efforts, with each issue marking

a different collection of notable issues, events or

achievements from across the Center’s history.

There will be a number of additional ways that we

mark our 20th anniversary over the course of the year:

The centerpiece of our recognition of twenty years

of bioethics at Minnesota will be an anniversary

celebration in May 2005, inviting back to campus a

number of faculty and students who have worked

or studied in the Center to reflect on their time in the

Center and on the field of bioethics. We will highlight

our faculty and the issues they have taken on in the

course of the Center’s history as well as showcase the

Center’s contributions to the development and growth

of the field. This will include a “genealogy of

bioethics” showing the relationship of the Center,

its faculty and students to the field.

Continued from Page 1

First Visiting Scholar—

Dr. John Roberts,

Chief Resident, Internal

Medicine, Abbott-

Northwestern Hospital,

Minneapolis.

Center produces a series of

reading packets on current

topics in biomedical ethics;

“Organ Transplantation”;

“Withholding and

Withdrawing of Artificial

Nutrition and Hydration”;

“Fetal Tissue Transplantation”;

and “Termination of

Treatment of Adults.”

Center announces its first

research project, supported

by the Deinard Memorial

Law and Medicine Fund,

“Do We Need a New Ethic for

Health Care in a Changing

Health Care Environment?”

The Center hosts a national

conference “Beyond Baby M:

Ethical Issues in New

Reproductive Technologies”

in Minneapolis.

Center receives funding

for a study on “The Use

of Human Fetal Tissue:

An Interdisciplinary Study

of the Ethical and Public

Policy Issues,” from

the Minnesota Medical

Foundation and General

Service Foundation.

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A free-standing Graduate

Minor in Bioethics is

approved by the University

of Minnesota Graduate

School and the Board

of Regents.

Center for Bioethics and

the University of Pittsburgh

Center for Medical Ethics

awarded a $1.6 million grant

from the DHHS Agency for

Health Care Policy Research

for a 3-year study on organ

and tissue donation.

Faculty and Center Associate

criteria established that

created new faculty

appointments in the Center.

Center awarded grant from

the Edwards Memorial Trust

Foundation for a project

on Humane Care of the

Dying Patient.

“Drawing the Line: Defining

a Basic Level of Health Care”

conference, co-sponsored

with the University of

Minnesota Hospital and

Clinics, the Minnesota

Humanities Commission,

the Hubbard Foundation and

Blue Plus Quality Assurance.

Center sponsors a national

conference on “Genetic

Counseling: Ethics, Values,

and Responsibilities,”

funded by the Human

Genome Project, NIH.

Center sponsors a

conference and theatrical

production “Race, Prejudice

and Health Care: Lessons

of the Tuskegee Syphilis

Study” (collaboration

with the Illusion Theater,

Minneapolis).

Center coordinates first


Health Sciences Short

Course on the Successful

and Responsible Conduct

of Scientific Research to

meet NIH requirement

for research training grants.

“Managing Mortality:

Ethics Euthanasia, and the

Termination of Treatment”

conference funded by the

FHP Foundation.

A conference on “Critical

Condition: African

Americans in the Health

Care System” (collaboration

with the Illusion Theater,

Minneapolis).

“Taking Values Seriously:

A Values Framework for

Minnesota’s Health Care

System” conference.

We will host a series of speakers on cutting edge topics

and issues, through our Center seminar series and our

co-sponsorship of numerous speakers and symposia

across campus (see page 6 for details).

The Center, along with our partner the Consortium

on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life

Sciences, will host a meeting on the future of the field

of bioethics.

Finally, in conjunction with the University’s Stem

Cell Ethics Advisory Board, we will host a one-day

conference in Fall 2005 on public discourse and

the future of the stem cell research debate.

Stay tuned for more details.

Twenty years is the blink of an eye in the development

of a scholarly area, of course, but it is also seems long

enough to be confident that bioethics is here to stay.

Nobody can predict what the field will look like twenty

years from now, but it seems safe to say that bioethics

has filled an increasingly important role in the

education of students, professionals, and the public;

and that bioethics research will continue to impact

science, medicine and public policy. We have been

proud to be an important part of the story that brought

bioethics to where it is today, and hope to play a role

in what it will be twenty years from now.

The Center publishes reports

on “RU486: New Issues in

the American Abortion

Debate” and “The Use

of Human Fetal Tissue:

Scientific, Ethical and

Policy Concerns.”

Center’s first book

publication, Beyond

Baby M: Ethical Issues

Raised by New Reproductive

Technologies, Humana

Press, February 1990;

based on conference

proceedings from 1988.

Center appoints Susan Wolf,

Associate Professor of Law

and Medicine, jointly with

the University of Minnesota

Law School.

Center establishes first Post

Doctoral Fellowship.

“Who’s Afraid of Jurassic

Park” a discussion for kids

and adults about genetic

engineering—a collaboration

with The Science Museum

of Minnesota and the

Minnesota Human

Genetics League.

Center book publication,

Prescribing our Future: Ethical

Challenges in Genetic Counseling.

Aldine De Gruyter, 1993.

Arthur Caplan and Steven Miles

participated on President

Clinton’s US Domestic Health

Policy Commission.

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Recent Faculty Publications

Book

Rule J, Bebeau M. Dentists Who Care: Inspiring Stories

of Professional Commitment. Chicago, IL: Quintessence

Publishing, 2005.

Articles

DeBruin D. Looking Beyond the Limitations of

Vulnerability: Reforming Safeguards in Research.

American Journal of Bioethics 2004;4(3):76-78.

DeVries R, Bosk C. The Bioethics of Business:

Rethinking the Relationship Between Bioethics

Consultants and Corporate Clients. Hastings Center

Report 2004;34(5):28-32.

DeVries R, Bosk C. Bureaucracies of Mass Deception:

IRBs and the Ethics of Ethnographic Research.

Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science

2004;595(1):249-263.

DeVries R, DeBruin D, Goodgame A. Ethics Review

of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research: Where

Should We Go From Here? Ethics & Behavior

2004;14(4):351-368.

DeVries R. The Warp of Evidence-Based Medicine:

Lessons from Dutch Maternity Care. International

Journal of Health Services Research 2004;34(4):595-623.

Elliott C. Pharma Goes to the Laundry: Public Relations

and the Business of Medical Education. Hastings Center

Report 2004;34(5):18-23.

Wagner J, Kahn J, Wolf S, Lipton J. Preimplantation

Testing to Produce an HLA-Matched Donor Infant.

[Letter] JAMA 2004;292(7):803-804.

Kent R, Liaschenko J. Operationalizing Professional

Values Through PAC Donations. Politics, Policy,

and Nursing Practice 2004;5(4):243-249.

Peter E, Liaschenko J. Perils of Proximity:

A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Moral Distress and Moral

Ambiguity. Nursing Inquiry 2004;11(4):218-225.

Miles S. Medical Ethicists, Human Curiosities, and the

New Media Midway. American Journal of Bioethics

2004;4(3):39-43.

Norlander L, Ratner E. Formation and Operation of a

Statewide Commission on End-of-Life Care, Minnesota.

Journal of Palliative Medicine 2004;7(6):839-845.

ISBN #0867154519

Chicago, IL: Quintessence

Publishing, March 2005.

Center for Bioethics Seminar Series—Celebrating 20 Years

Seminars will be held in room 2-122 Molecular

& Cellular Biology Building, on the University

of Minnesota campus from 12:15 to 1:30 pm.

For information, contact the Center at 612-624-9440.

Mar 11

Carol Tauer, PhD, Center for Bioethics will speak on “Feeding

Tubes and Moral Decisions: Jamie Butcher, Terri Schiavo, and

the Pope.”

April 8

Maryam Valapour, MD, Center for Bioethics and Division

of Pulmonary Medicine, will speak on “Ethics of the Use of

Psychosocial Factors as Contraindication for Transplantation.”

May 6

Timothy Murphy, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago

School of Medicine will speak on “Members First: The Ethics

of Donating Organs and Tissues to Groups.”

Co-sponsoredSeminars with theJoint Degree Programon Law, Health & the Life Sciences and the Consortium on Law and Values inHealth, Environment & the Life SciencesFor more information,

call 612-625-0055.

April 5Lunch Series on the Societal

Implications of the Life

Sciences. Alan Milstein, Esq.,

Sherman, Silverstein, Kohl,

Rose & Podolsky will speak

on “Human Subjects

Protection: A Plaintiff ’s

Perspective” 12:15 to

1:30 pm, Mississippi Room,

Coffman Memorial Union.

April 18Annual Conference.

“Proposals for the

Responsible Use of Racial

& Ethical Categories in

Biomedical Research: Where

Do We Go From Here?”

8:30 to 5:00 pm, Mondale

Hall, University of

Minnesota Law School.

April 20Lecture Series. Professor

Alta Charo, University of

Wisconsin will speak on

“From Stem Cells to Jail

Cells” 11:30 to 1:00 pm,

Mississippi Room,

Coffman Memorial Union.

May 20Annual Symposium.

“Where are Law, Ethics

& the Life Sciences

Headed? Frontier Issues,”

at Mondale Hall,


Law School.

Feb 26Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,

will participate in a panel

presentation “Scholarly

Communication and

Practical Ethics” at the

Association for Practical

and Professional Ethics 14th

Annual Conference,

San Antonio, TX.

For information, visit

www.indiana.edu/~appel/.

Feb 28 – Mar 1Steven Miles, MD,

will speak on “Abu Ghraib

and Guantanamo: Medical

Professionalism, Dual

Loyalty and Human Rights”

at the Harvard Public Forum

sponsored by Harvard

University and the Center

for Applied Ethics and

Professional Practice,

Boston, MA.

For information, email

[email protected].

Mar 2Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,

will speak on “Ethical Issues

Surrounding Cellular

Therapy” at the 7th Annual

United Resource Network

Conference “Evolving

Science of Blood/Marrow

Transplantation and Cancer

Treatments,” Miami, FL. For

information, visit

www.urnweb.com/.

Mar 3Michael Gill, PhD,

University of Arizona,

will speak on “Can US

Organ Donation Policy

be Improved?” Minneapolis,

MN. Sponsored by the

Department of Philosophy

and co-sponsored by Center

for Bioethics, and CHIP

Bioethics Student

Committee, University of

Minnesota. For information,

call 612-624-9440.



in Emerging Technologies”

at the University of

Nebraska, Graduate Studies

Research Fair, Lincoln. NE.


[email protected].

Mar 10Steven Miles, MD,

will speak at Yale School

of Medicine Grand Rounds,

New Haven, CT.


[email protected].

Mar 14 –15Steven Miles, MD, will

comment on Richard Sprott,

PhD, “Reality Check: What

are the Consequences of

Genetic Research for Aging

and the Clinical Implications

that Derive from the

Genetics Revolution?”

at Boston College, Chestnut

Hill, MA. For information,

email [email protected].


will speak at the University

of Minnesota Medical

School, Department

of Surgery Transplant

Conference “Cutting

Edge–Debate on Organ

Sales,” Minneapolis, MN.

For information,

call 612-625-5150.

Mar 20–24Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,

will speak on “Maimonides

and Contemporary Research

Ethics” and Steven Miles,

MD, will speak on

“The Medical Aphorisms

of Maimonides and of the

Hippocratic School” at the

The First International

Maimonides Conference

on Medicine and Ethics,

Tiberias, Israel.


www.ortra.com/maimonides/.

Apr 2–3Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,

will participate in Great

Conversations on the Road

“Bioethics in the National

Spotlight” at the University

of Minnesota Alumni

Association —Arizona

Chapters, Tucson, AZ.


www.alumni.umn.edu/

UMAA_Home.html.

Apr 4Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,

will speak at St. Olaf College,

Stem Cell event, Northfield,

MN. For information,

call 612-624-9440.

Apr 7Carl Elliott, MD, PhD,

will speak on “Is That

a Bioethicist in Your

Pocket?” at the American

Society for Bioethics and

Humanities (ASBH) spring

conference “The Ethics of

Bioethics,” held at Albany

Medical College, Albany, NY.

For more information, see

the conference website at

ethics.bioethics.net/dir.php

or contact Ann Nolte

at 518-3883-8042.


will speak on “Little Cells,

Big Issues: The Ethics

and Policy Debate Around

Embryonic Stem Cell

Research” at the Keck

Graduate Institute,

Claremont, CA.

For information,

call 612-624-9440.

Apr 20–21Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,

will speak at the Native

American Transplant

Conference at McNamara

Alumni Center,

Minneapolis, MN.

For information,

call 612-624-9440.


will speak on “Ethics

and Stem Cell Research—

the State of the Debate”

at the Twin Cities Eye

Meeting, Phillips Eye

Institute, Minneapolis, MN.

For information,

call 612-624-9440.

May 18Celebrating 20 YearsThe Center for Bioethics

Anniversary Event at

McNamara Alumni

Center, 1:00–5:30 pm.

(see page 2 for information).

May 23–27Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,

will serve as faculty at the

USDA Bioethics Institute

2005. The workshop will

be hosted by Iowa State

University, Ames, IA.


[email protected].

June 2Steven Miles, MD, will speak

at the University of

California, Davis Medical

Center, Internal Medicine

Grand Rounds, Davis, CA.


[email protected].

June 14Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,


in Emerging Technologies”

and “A Model for

Implementing Training

in Ethics” at the University

of Pittsburgh’s 11th Annual

Conference on Teaching

Survival Skills and Ethics,

Snowmass, CO.


www.survival.pitt.edu/events

/trainer.asp.

June 21–25Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH,

will speak at Peiking

University Health Science

Center Workshop,

Xi’an, China.


[email protected].

Call for Papers–UndergraduateBioethics JournalThe Bioethics Society of the

University of Pennsylvania

has announced the launch

of a peer-reviewed online

journal Penn Bioethics

Journal. This journal

provides a nationwide

forum for undergraduate

discussion of current,

relevant issues in bioethics.

All undergraduates in

bioethics are encouraged

to submit term papers,

summer research write-ups

and manuscripts fitting

submission guidelines.

Guidelines are available at

www.bioethicsjournal.com.

Calendar of Events

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Center Faculty & StaffCenter FacultyJeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH

Director and Maas Family

Chair in Bioethics

Dianne Bartels, RN, MA, PhD

Associate Director

Debra DeBruin, PhD

Director of Graduate Studies

John Song, MD, MPH, MAT

Director of Medical

Education

Carl Elliott, MD, PhD

Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD

Steven Miles, MD

Maryam Valapour, MD

Susan M. Wolf, JD

Visiting FacultyRaymond de Vries, PhD

Carol Tauer, PhD

Post-Doctoral FellowDavid Satin, MD

Faculty AssociatesMuriel Bebeau, PhD

Ronald Cranford, MD

Barbara Elliott, PhD

Rosalie Kane, PhD

David Mayo, PhD

Gregory Plotnikoff, MD, MTS

Edward Ratner, MD

Karen-Sue Taussig, PhD

Beth Virnig, PhD, MPH

Resource CenterLesli Rawles

Amy Ward

Graduate AssistantsLucy Alderton

Tali Averbuch

Alicia Hall

Susan Parry

Administrative StaffLeeAnne Hoekstra

Candace Holmbo

Karen Howard

Janice Kalien

Margaret O’Neill

The Spring 2005

Bioethics Examiner

submission deadline is

April 1, 2005.

Send submissions to:

Bioethics Examiner

Center for Bioethics


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Minneapolis, MN 55455-0346

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E-mail: [email protected]

The Bioethics Examiner

is produced by the Center

for Bioethics, University

of Minnesota, free of charge.

The editorial staff has sole

authority over and

responsibility for the content

of this publication.

We welcome comments, letters,

and contributions. No part

of this publication may

be reproduced, in any form,

without the written consent

of the Center for Bioethics.

Candace Holmbo,

Managing Editor


N504 Boynton

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Beginning with a definition of death in modern society

and continuing all the way through post-death issues,

End of Life Care: An Ethical Overview presents significant

ethical issues related to death and dying. Topics include

the benefits and drawbacks of various types of modern

treatment, ending life through termination of treatment

or physician assistance, preserving the patient’s individual

autonomy, terminally ill children, and medical research.

Available now at www.bioethics.umn.edu/resources

or contact the Resource Center at 612-624-3171

or [email protected].

Bioethics Overviews are also available on:

Human Stem Cells

Research Ethics

Organ Transplantation

Distributing Limited Healthcare Resources

Resuscitation Decisions

Genetic Testing and Screening

The Center gratefully acknowledges the Starr Foundation,in supporting this effort.

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