and future of medical ethics
A symposium tracing the evolution of the field of medical ethics over the past three decades and predicting future developments in the field will take place on Friday, Oct. 6, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.
The event is sponsored by the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and its Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project.
Titled "Paul Ramsey's Beecher Lectures of 1969: The Structure of an Ethical Revolution -- And Beyond," the symposium celebrates the 30th anniversary of another landmark conference held at Yale. In the spring of 1969, Princeton ethicist Paul Ramsey presented the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale as the centerpiece of a University-wide symposium on medical ethics sponsored by the Law, Divinity and Medical Schools.
Ramsey's lectures focused on questions of care of the dying, the definition of death, research on human subjects, organ transplantation and the allocation of rare medical resources -- questions of medical ethics that have since become part of the public consciousness. The lectures were published in 1970 under the title "The Patient as Person," a book that is credited with setting the direction of Western medical ethics for the next quarter-century.
The event is also designed to introduce the University community to the work being done by Yale's Interdisciplinary Bioethics Committee
The Oct. 6 symposium will feature presentations by two renowned bioethicists: Albert R. Jonsen, professor of ethics in medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, and William F. May, founding director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Responsibility and professor of ethics at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Jonsen was visiting emeritus professor-in-bioethics at Yale last year; May holds that post this year and next.
Following welcoming remarks at 8:30 a.m., Jonsen will present a talk titled "Structure of an Ethical Revolution: Paul Ramsey's Beecher Lectures of 1969 and the Origins of Bioethics." May will speak at 10:30 a.m. on "The Patient as Person: Beyond Paul Ramsey's Beecher Lectures.
At 12:45 p.m., there will be a panel discussion on the future of the broader field of bioethics. Margaret A. Farley, the Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at the Divinity School, will moderate the panel, which will include Dr. Nancy R. Angoff, associate dean of the School of Medicine; Dr. Maurice Jeremiah Mahoney, professor of genetics, obstetrics/gynecology and pediatrics; and Stephen R. Kellert, professor of social ecology at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
The public is invited to attend the symposium free of charge. Those who would like to attend the luncheon, however, must make a reservation by contacting Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
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