News & Annoucements

Judith Andre

• Serves as a consultant for the Ethics Committee of the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan.
• Participated in an Ethics Grand Rounds on the subject of atypical treatments for vulnerable patients. Lansing, MI (Feb).

Len Fleck

• Gave lecture “Health Care Reform: Opposition, Obstacles, Opportunists” for MSU Undergraduate Bioethics Society (Jan).
• Participated in the “Disability and Bioethics Working Group” at the Cardozo School of Law. This research project is sponsored by Montefiore Medical Center and the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University. New York City (Jan).
• Published “Just Caring: The Challenges to Priority-Setting in Public Health” in TheBlackwell Guide to Medical Ethics (2007), edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie Francis, and Anita Silvers.

Linda Hunt

• Published (with co-authors H. Castaneda and K.B. de Voogd) “Do Notions of Risk Inform Patient Choice? Lessons from a Study of Prenatal Genetic Counseling.” Medical Anthropology 25(3): 193-219 (2006).
• Published (with co-author H. Brody) “BiDil: Assessing a Race-Based Pharmaceutical.” Ann Fam Med 2006 4: 556-560.
  

Ann Mongoven

• Published “The War on Disease and the War on Terror.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 15(4) 403-17, Fall 2006.
• Gave lecture on “Religious (?) Refusals (?) of Treatment (?)” for MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine diversity workshops series (Sept).
• Presented “Gift of Life or Relay of Life? Organ Donation in Comparative Perspective, U.S.-Japan” for MSU Asian Studies 2006-07 Colloquium Series on Biotechnology and Society in Asia (Oct).
• Gave talk “All is Fair in Love and War? Tendencies in American Organ Donation and Transplantation Policy” for the MSU premed society (Oct).

Harry Perlstadt

• Published “Ethical Dilemmas in Publishing a Journal of Public Health Practice.” The Michigan Journal of Public Health Vol. 1, no. 1 (2006).