Scholars Gather for MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics Intensive Summer Program
The five-week program of 90 seminars is taught by more than 30 faculty of UChicago's Biological Sciences Division. [Read more]
Ethics
The Ethics of Clinical Trials for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
David Rubin and Mark Siegler tackle the ethical issues involved with human clinical trials for IBD. [Read more]
Marshall Chin new president-elect of Society of General Internal Medicine
Marshall Chin, the Richard Parrillo Family Professor of Healthcare Ethics in the Department of Medicine, has been named the new president-elect of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) for the 2014-2015 year. [Read more]
University of Chicago Faculty Named Guggenheim Fellows
Medical ethicist Lainie Ross and geneticist Joe Thornton were among 177 scholars to receive 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships. [Read more]
Religious Beliefs Of American Muslims Influence Attitudes Toward Organ Donation
American Muslims who interpret negative events in life as punishment from God are less likely to believe that donating organs after death is ethical than those with a more positive outlook. [Read more]
The Ethics Of Solving The Transplant Organ Shortage
At the 2014 AAAS meeting in Chicago, medical ethicist Mark Siegler laid out a framework for a potentially provocative solution to the shortage of kidneys available for transplantation.
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Questions about accommodating the religious beliefs of a patient? There’s an app for that
Elsevier, the publisher of scholarly and medical journals, has produced an app for the iPhone and iPad called “Care of Muslim Patients – A Practical Guide.” It’s a reference guide to help doctors accommodate Islamic beliefs [Read more]
Presidential Commission on Bioethics Tackles Research on Children
National leaders in medicine, law, public health and disease control gathered Nov. 5, 6, at the University of Chicago Divinity School to participate in a two-day meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to examine [Read more]
Fairness and Efficiency: Designing a Better Kidney Allocation System
Each year approximately 11,000 people receive kidney transplants from deceased donors, but nearly 100,000 people are on the waiting list for a deceased donor kidney. This means that people with end-stage renal disease who desperately need a new [Read more]
Building a New Marcus Welby To Cut Costs
Marcus Welby, M.D. was a popular TV drama that ran from 1969 to 1976. The titular character was a symbol of a traditional physician archetype that was already fading from reality — the cradle-to-grave general practitioner that took care of [Read more]