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Bioethics seminar will examine 'Cosmopolitanism'
Louis P. Pojman, professor of philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point, will deliver two lectures on Wednesday, Dec. 18, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series exploring "Ethics in Scientific Research."
Pojman will discuss "Should Bioethics be Global?" at a noon seminar in the lower level conference room at ISPS, 77 Prospect St. In a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St., he will discuss "Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism." Both lectures are open to the public free of charge. For further information, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Pojman, who has taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point since 1995, is the author or editor of over 30 books and 80 articles and has won several research and teaching awards.
A 1969 Fulbright Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Pojman was also a Rockefeller Fellow at Hamburg University. He began his teaching career at the University of Notre Dame, and has also held positions at the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Mississippi, where he served as the chair of the department of philosophy and religion for three years.
The Program for the Humanities in Medicine will sponsor a lecture on Thursday, Jan. 9, by Nancy Cobb, author of "In Lieu of Flowers."
Cobb's talk, titled "In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living," will take place at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Rm. of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Cobb's book focuses on death as seen through the eyes of everyday people and treats the topic as one which should be explored, not avoided. She uses both her personal experiences with death as well as chance encounters with others that have lost loved ones as a basis for the book.
In a review, the Wall Street Journal stated that it is "an elegant book whose dark subject matter is lightened by the author's wry and sometimes brazen storytelling perspective. Each story Ms. Cobb tells is rendered with grace and simple honesty... [In Lieu of Flowers is] a candid collection of tales that lets readers know they aren't alone."
The Program for Humanities in Medicine was established by Dr. Howard Spiro in 1983 at the Yale University School of Medicine to bring attention to the links between the arts and humanities and the practice of medicine.
John D. Arras, the Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics and professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia, will deliver two lectures on campus on Wednesday, Jan. 15.
Arras will discuss "Method in Bioethics: How We Reason Now" in a Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar at noon in the lower level conference room at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. He will then speak on "Distributive Justice and International Research Ethics" at a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. Both lectures are free and open to the public. For further information, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.
Arras, who also directs the Undergraduate Bioethics Program at the University of Virginia, is a fellow of the Hastings Center and a former member of the New York State Task Force on Life and Law.
He is the co-editor of "Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine," and "Bringing the Hospital Home: Ethical and Social Implications of High Technology Home Care."
Arras' research focuses on the ethics of physician-assisted suicide, AIDS treatment and research, international research and methodology in practical ethics. He is currently a consultant to both the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health on ethical issues in research.
Before joining the University of Virginia faculty in 1995, Arras was a professor of bioethics at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he co-founded one of the first clinical ethics consultation services in the United States.
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