Tag Archive | MacLean Center
LabBook November 16, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THIS […]
MacLean Center Prize Winner Challenges Ethics Conference to Drive Global Social Innovation
Peter Singer, MD, MPH, was awarded the second annual $50,000 MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics on Saturday, and challenged this weekend’s Dorothy J. MacLean Fellows Conference to think bigger about medical and clinical ethics. And to think globally. “Bioethics is actually, on reflection and especially clinical ethics the way it’s practiced here [at the […]
MacLean Fellows Conference to focus on ethics of organ transplant, global health and pediatric immunization
The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics will host its 24th annual conference on ethical issues this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9-10, at the University of Chicago Law School. This year’s conference will also feature the presentation of the second annual $50,000 MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics to Peter Singer, MD, MPH, senior scientist […]
Whole Genome Sequencing: Society to Reap the Benefits But Individuals to Bear the Risks
Using a person’s own genetic code to figure out what treatments might work best against a particular disease will be one of the most powerful weapons available to 21st century doctors and researchers. But such potential carries a heavy burden to protect the privacy of individuals who agree to share their most intimate information. That’s […]
Professionalism and Ethics, Day Two: Prize and Prejudice
Even in the court of ethics and medical professionalism, there’s nothing wrong with the occasional honor or award. On day two of the conference, the Maclean Center awarded its first Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes – at $50,000, the largest such prize in the ethics field – to John Wennberg, the Peggy Y. […]
The Many Faces of Medical Professionalism
Every patient wants their doctor to be a professional. But the broader concept of “medical professionalism” is not a cut-and-dry matter, as it opens the door to debates over how physicians interact with politics and society, the regulation of doctors’ ethical and legal behavior, and the role of the physician in the new world of […]
The Global Health Gap: Why Fight It?
The final question of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics seminar series on health disparities was a seemingly obvious query that had gone unasked and unanswered the entire year: who is responsible for fixing the problem? For the self-selecting audience that had attended the lectures all year, the question may have seemed irrelevant – […]
Fighting Disparities During Segregation
Reducing health disparities in the United States has been a top priority for our health care system in these early years of the 21st century. But efforts to narrow the health gap between black and white patients go much farther back, to the start of the previous century when the first African-Americans were graduating from […]
Hospitalists, Specialists, and a New Model of Care
In the Norman Rockwell past, patients had one doctor who followed them from home to clinic to hospital, managing their health care over a significant portion of their lives. That sort of doctor-patient relationship in today’s medical world seems about as outdated as a family gathered around the fireplace listening to the radio. Now, patients […]
Insurance Against Health Disparities
There are many different stakeholders in fixing the runaway costs of the U.S. health care system, including patients, doctors, hospitals, and the federal government. Another interested party, heavily involved in recent debates over health care reform, is the health insurance industry. As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act rolls out in the coming years, […]
