Center News and Announcements

Clayton Thomason acted as Planning Committee Chair and Moderator for the 3rd Annual Foglio Conference on Spirituality & Medicine, "Suffering, Healing and Hope in Medicine," co-sponsored by the College of Human Medicine and the Center for Ethics, MSU.

Len Fleck conducted a workshop for the 3rd Annual Bioethics Conference in October in Mackinac Island, MI, sponsored by the Michigan State Medical Society titled, "Just Caring: The Moral and Economic Challenges of Creating Integrity-Preserving Incentives for Health Care Cost Containment."

Judith Andre, Leonard Fleck, and Tom Tomlinson published "Improving Our Aim," in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 2, (1999) pp., 130-147.

While in the UK with the MSU Study Abroad course "Medical Ethics and History of Health Care in the UK" Libby Bogdan-Lovis presented "Gift Horse or Trojan Horse: Midwives and the Birth of Evidence-based Medicine" to faculty and students at the University of Sheffield's School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Tom Tomlinson moderated a panel of representatives of four religious faiths who spoke on the theme, "End of Life-What Do You Say?", as part of the Anne Tauber Goldman Lecture series on Biomedical Ethics, in Birmingham, MI.

In November, Howard Brody will speak at MEDAX, a conference for family physicians in Israel, on the subject "Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine." He also will be visiting various Israeli family practice training programs and departments.

Clayton Thomason presented a paper titled "An Inclusive Spirit in Medicine: Toward a Spirituality of Practice," to the 9th Annual Wheaton College Theology Conference, Wheaton, IL, to be published in James Callahan and Richard Buttman (eds.), Healing, Health & Spirituality: Evangelical Theology Engages Scientific Research (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, forthcoming).

Len Fleck had his article "Just Caring: Oregon, Health Care Rationing and Rational Democratic Deliberation," originally published in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, translated into Chinese and published in the journal Chinese and International Philosophy of Medicine (1999).

Judith Andre participated in a panel for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) speaking on "Feminism as a Heuristic Stance."

Libby Bogdan-Lovis will present "Show Me the Evidence: Midwifery and Evidence-based Practice Policies" in November at the annual American Anthropological Association meetings in Chicago.

Howard Brody presented at ASBH with Peter Vinten-Johansen "You See, But You Do Not Observe: John Snow, the Broad Street Pump, and the Limits of Scientific Induction."

In mid-October, Tom Tomlinson presented on "Ethical Issues in Refusals of Treatment" at the Great Lakes Cancer Nursing Conference at Novi, MI.

Clayton Thomason and Howard Brody, published an editorial "Inclusive Spirituality," in The Journal of Family Practice 48(2):21-22 (Feb. 1999).

Len Fleck is serving as director of the community dialogue phase of the NIH ELSI Genome project recently funded for another two and a half years under the title "Communities of Color and Genetics Policy Project." He is creating resource materials for those community dialogue sessions. This is a joint University of Michigan/ Michigan State University/ Tuskegee University project.

Clayton Thomason acted as consultant to the Presiding Bishop's Consultation on Bioethics at the College of Preachers, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

Judith Andre participated in a panel on Doctor-Nurse Collaboration with Denise Jacob, RN, Ph.D. for the Michigan State Medical Society Bioethics Retreat, Mackinac Island, MI.

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