News & Annoucements

Judith Andre

• Presented “Development Ethics, Environmentalism, and the American Suburban Student” for the international conference “Globalization, Environmental Ethics, and Environmental Justice,” held at Lyman Briggs, MSU (Aug).
• Conducted workshops on confidentiality in health care, with a focus on adolescent medicine, for the College of Osteopathic Medicine Statewide Campus conference, MSU (Sept).
• Participated in the panel “Hearing and Heeding the Challenging Voices: Defining Values for Bioethicists,” American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, Denver (Oct).

Elizabeth Bogdan-Lovis

• Gave a workshop (with co-presenters Lisa Kane Low, CNM, Ph.D., and Ray DeVries, Ph.D.) titled “Have it Their Way: Constructing Autonomy in Childbirth” and participated in the “Against Health: Future Directions” plenary session, for the “Against Health: Resisting the Invisible Morality” conference, University of Michigan (Oct).

P. Sean Brotherton

• Lectured on “Colonialism, Representation, and the ‘Black Body’:Revisiting the ‘Hottentots Venus’ Controversy” for the Sex and Gender Course, Department of Sociology (Oct).
• Presented a paper, “Emergent Capital, Shifting Ideologies, and Expanding Therapeutic Itineraries in Cuba's Special Period,” for Western Michigan University's Department of Anthropology Speaker Series (Oct).
• Gave a talk “‘We Have to Think Like Capitalists but Continue Being Socialists’: Emergent Capital, Shifting Ideologies, and Cuba’s Changing Health Sector,” for Cornell University's Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series (Nov).
• Chaired a session, titled “Politics and Health Care: Neoliberal Reforms, Shifting Ideologies, and Cuban Dichotomies,” and presented a paper at the American Anthropology Association Meetings in San, Jose, California (Nov.)

Leonard M. Fleck

• Published The Costs of Caring: Who Pays? Who Profits? Who Panders? Hastings Center Report 36 (May/June, 2006), 13-17.
• Workshop presentations “Ethical Issues in Withdrawing/ Withholding Life-Sustaining Care from Incompetent Patients,” “Ethical Issues regarding Brain Dead, PVS, and minimally Conscious Patients,” for College of Osteopathic Medicine (core competencies) Ethics Day for medical residents (Sept).
• Paper presentation (with Allison Wolf) “Challenges to Conscience: Quarrels, Quibbles, and Quips” at the Annual meeting of ASBH in Denver (Oct).

Margaret Holmes-Rovner

• Chaired two events at the Society for Medical Decision-Making Annual Meeting, Boston, (Oct): Dinner Symposium and Debate: “Patient Decision Aids Are the Best Way to Improve the Quality of Clinical Decision Making” and ashort course on “Standards for Educational Materials to Support Shared Decision-Making: State of the Art.”
• Received the Michigan Cancer Consortium Spirit of Collaboration Honorable Mention Award for her collaborative work in developing the new Prostate Cancer Control Plan for Michigan.

Co-authored presentations:

• Martin, Holmes-Rovner M, et al. “Effectiveness of Disease Modifying Anti-rheumatic Drug Risk Communication in Rheumatoid Arthritis.” American College of Rheumatology, Washington DC (Nov).
• Martin, R, Holmes-Rovner M, et al. “Rheumatoid Arthritis DMARD Knowledge Profile: Development and Validation.” American College of Rheumatology, Washington DC (Nov).
• Martin, R, Holmes-Rovner M, et al. “The Importance of Patient Trust of Physician in Rheumatoid Arthritis Decision Making.” American College of Rheumatology, Washington DC (Nov).
• Dwamena FC, Holmes-Rovner M, Mavis B, Fletcher F, Loyson A, Osuch J, Walsh K. “Teaching Medical interviewing to Patients: The Other Side of the Encounter.” American Academy on Physician and Patient (AAPP) Research and Teaching Forum, Atlanta (Oct).
• Dwamena FC, Smith RC, Fletcher F, Holmes-Rovner M, Mavis B,A, Osuch J, Walsh K. “Feasibility of Teaching Medical interviewing to African American Women.” American Academy on Physician and Patient (AAPP) Research and Teaching Forum, Atlanta (Oct).

Publications:

• Stacey, D., O'Connor, A. M., Llewellyn-Thomas, H., Holmes-Rovner, M., Entwistle, V., Rovner, D. et al. 2006. Outils de prise de décision afin de permettre aux patients de peser les avantages et les désavantages des options associées au dépistage ou au traitement: Une revue systématique de la littérature. In L. Lalonde & F. Légaré (Eds.), Les choix en matière de sante et la participation du patient: vers une prise de décision partagée (107 ed., pp. 85-111). Montréal: l'Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS).
• Elwyn G, O'Connor A, Stacey D, Volk R, Edwards A, Coulter A, Thomson R, Barratt A, Barry M, Bernstein S, Butow P, Clarke A, Entwistle V, Feldman-Stewart D, Holmes-Rovner M, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Moumjid N, Mulley A, Ruland C, Sepucha K, Sykes A, Whelan T, The International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS)Collaboration. Developing a Quality Criteria Framework for Patient Decision Aids: Online International Delphi Consensus Process. BMJ 2006; 333: 417. Supporting documents are available at http://www.ipdas.ohri.ca/resources.html. .
• Dunn, S., Corser, W., Stommel, M., Holmes-Rovner, M. Hopelessness and Depression in the Early Recovery Period After Hospitalization for Acute Coronary Syndrome. Jl Cardiopul Rehab, May-Jun 2006 26(3): 152-9
• Holtrop JS, Corser W, Spence-Jones G, Brooks G, Stommel M, Holmes-Rovner M. Health Behavior Goals of Cardiac Patients After Hospitalization. Amer Jl of Hlth. Behavior, 2006 (Jul-Aug), 30:387-399

Linda M. Hunt

• Published, with Castaneda, H. and de Voogd, K. B. 2006. Do Notions of Risk Inform Patient Choice? Lessons from a Study of Prenatal Genetic Counseling. Medical Anthropology, 25(3): 193-219.
• Grant Awarded “Helping Low-Income Families Manage Chronic Illness in Lansing: An Ethnographic Study of a Community Outreach Health Program,” (with Heidi Connealy). Family and Communities Together Coalition (FACT), Michigan State University.
• Presented “Race, Ethnicity and Genetic Variation: Origin Myths in the New Genetics” as a CEHLS Brown Bag Talk, MSU (Oct).

Ann Mongoven

• Presented “Terrorism as Ritual: The Hijacking of Public Health?” as a CEHLS Brown Bag Talk, MSU (Sept).

Harry Perlstadt

• Gave a talk on “A Framework for Assessing Risk in Public Health Research,” American Public Health Association Meetings, Boston (Nov).
• Presented “The Ethics of Conducting Clinical Trials in the Midst of an Epidemic: Lessons from Arrowsmith and the Neel-Yanomami Expedition,” 11th World Congress on Public Health and 8th Brazilian Congress on Collective Health, Rio de Janeiro (Aug).

Gerald S. Schatz

• Gave a talk on “A Framework for Assessing Risk in Public Health Research,” American Public Health Association Meetings, Boston (Nov).
• Presented “What’s the Deal with Institutional Review Boards?” at the Cancer Core Conference, MSU Breslin Cancer Center, College of Human Medicine, and Great Lakes Cancer Institute (Sept).

Tom Tomlinson

• Gave a talk on “Bioethics Meets Hospital Administration,” Doctorate of Healthcare Administration program orientation, Central Michigan University (Aug).