Center News & Announcements

Len Fleck and Kathleen Delp did a workshop for the Medical Ethics Resource Network (MERN) of Michigan annual meeting in Novi, MI, under the title "Ethics, Genetics, and Social Workers: Three Cases" (May 21, 2004).

Judy Andre presented versions of the same talk titled "Virtue and the Global Village: Honesty and Public Health" at the University of Caen, France (March 16, 2004), and to the Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto (April 14, 2004).

Tom Tomlinson spoke on "Giving and Getting: The Ethics of Reciprocity in Organ Allocation" as part of the Michigan Conference on Organ Donation. Dearborn (April 22, 2004).

Len Fleck did a faculty seminar for the Life Sciences and Values Program at the University of Michigan in May under the title "Pricing Human Life: Must Health Care Rationing be About Tragic Choices?" (May, 2004).

Congratulations to Libby Bogdan-Lovis and Clayton Thomason. Libby was awarded the College of Human Medicine Distinguished Academic Staff Award. Clayton was the recipient of the College of Human Medicine Teacher-Scholar Award (April, 2004).

Tom Tomlinson served as a paper commentator, "Health Care Resource Allocation in a Rawlsian Framework" (by B. Sachs), at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL (April 24, 2004).

Len Fleck published the essay "Children and Organ Donation: Some Cautionary Remarks," in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 13 (Spring, 2004), 161-67.