| These lectures address topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Speakers are MH&B faculty or special guests we've invited to present. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building, during The Graduate School's Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters. Due to public interest, we've made these lectures open to all, inside and outside the Northwestern community. Please feel free to bring a lunch. |
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Bioethics and Humanities in Translational Research.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The International Society of Stem Cell Research recently completed a two-year international project to define regulations on how translational research in human stem cells should be conducted. For the first time, scientists and ethicists proposed standards for social justice in translational research. How were the guidelines created? What is the argument for justice in translational research? How are guidelines enforced in a world where wild promises tempt desperate patients to offshore clinics? How is the line between quacks and medical innovators drawn?
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
What do 40 years of International House of Pancakes commercials tell us about why Americans are fat? How is the deep yearning for happiness somehow used by marketers of fast food? What is the relationship between the cultural narratives of completeness and the rise of obesity? What is the relationship between obesity and class?
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Among the fiercest debates of the Bush Administration years was the arguments between religion and science. This lecture will explore one such debate in detail as played out in formal NAS hearing on the making of chimeric mice with human neurons by Stanford investigators, and ask why this issue became important. What is at stake when we debate religion and science?
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