Past EventsWednesday, April 30, 2008 The NYU Center for Bioethics and the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University invite you to: Broad Bioethics: Clinical Ethics, Public Health and Global Health Onora O'NeillProfessor of Philosophy, Cambridge University President, The British Academy
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
7:30 PM Location: Yeshiva University Museum/The Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street (Btwn 5th and 6th Avenue), New York, N.Y. RSVP to 212-960-0189 or at events@yu.edu Abstract: Across thirty years, medical ethics has mainly been concerned with clinical ethics. This focus has marginalised ethical questions about public health: the central requirements of clinical ethics, such as demands for informed consent or for a just distribution of health care, cannot generally be met by public health interventions. This is unavoidable: many public health interventions are public goods which are not and cannot be allocated to individuals, and cannot be adjusted to individual choice or subject to consent requirements. In marginalising questions about public health, work in bioethics has also marginalised ethical questions about global health issues, where public health interventions are often of fundamental importance. An approach to bioethics that takes questions of public and global health seriously would need to be anchored in political philosophy. It would need not only to look beyond questions about informed consent and individual autonomy, but beyond questions about the proper distribution of health care to individuals. In particular it needs to focus on the differences between interventions that are acceptable without the consent of those whom they may affect, and those which are not. I shall suggest that careful consideration of this demand shows that clinical interventions too, although they are provided for individuals and can be subject to consent requirements, rely on many structures and procedures that cannot be matters of individual choice. Clinical ethics therefore presupposes an ethics of public health. Thursday, May 1, 2008 The Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge University Dissecting Informed Consent Applications to Medicine and Public Health Thursday, May 1, 2008 4:00 p.m. Board of Overseers Room (Forchheimer Building Ground Floor) Albert Einstein College of Medicine Jack & Pearl Resnick Campus 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, NY 10461 RSVP by April 24, 2008 to Ms. Merrilly Calabrese at 718-430-3234 Or email: calabres@aecom.yu.edu Reception to follow. Friday, May 2, 2008
Naturalism, Normativity, and Applied Philosophy Friday, May 2, 2008 4:00-6:00 PM 5 Washington Place 1st Floor Auditorium Thursday, March 27, 2008 The
NYU Center for Bioethics invites you to a lecture by To download a PDF of the flyer, click here. Thursday, February 21, 2008
The NYU Center for Bioethics invites you to a talk by S. Matthew Liao, D.Phil.(Oxford) Deputy Director & James Martin Senior Research Fellow Program on the Ethics of New Biosciences, Oxford University Parental Love Pills: Some Ethical Considerations What if we can develop drugs that enable parents to feel and behave more lovingly towards their children? Why would anyone want to take such pills? What implications do these pills have for a duty to love a child? Thursday February 21 5:30-7pm 5 Washington Place, Room 202 Announcement: Professor William Ruddick of the Philosophy Department has been appointed the first Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics and Director of the NYU Center for Bioethics. Announcement: Faculty Positions
Center for Bioethics, Arts and Science Start date: September 1, 2008 for both positions (pending administrative and budgetary approval; the start date for the open rank faculty position is negotiable for more senior applicants) Description of institution: A new Center for Bioethics at New York University promotes a broad conception of bioethics encompassing both medical and environmental ethics through conferences, workshops, public lectures, and a Master’s degree program. Based in the Faculty of Arts and Science, the Center draws on faculty affiliates and programs throughout the University, including environmental studies, medicine, law, education, and public service. The Center will begin a Master’s program in “Bioethics: Life, Health, and Environment” in September 2007. A description of the program can be viewed at http://bioethics.as.nyu.edu. Description of position: Applications are invited for both an open rank faculty position and an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow position. The open rank faculty position is for a tenured or tenure-track Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or full Professor. The initial appointment for the Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow position will be for one year, renewable annually for a maximum of three years. The applicant will be expected to give a graduate course in the new MA in Bioethics Program in Spring 2009. NYU is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Requirements: Applicants for the open rank faculty position may be from any academic discipline. The applicant should have studied, taught, and written on relevant moral or general philosophical matters. Applicants for the Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow position should have written and preferably taught in areas of medical, environmental, and/or animal ethics and have completed a Ph.D. no more than three years before the application date. Review of applications begins: September 17, 2007 Contact information: For both positions, please submit curriculum vitae, letters of recommendation (or, for more senior applicants applying for the open rank position, a list of recommenders), and two relevant essays to Professor William Ruddick, Director of the Center for Bioethics, 5 Washington Place, Room 305, New York University, New York, NY 10003, Attn: Open Rank or Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow Position. Please send any questions to bioethics@nyu.edu. |
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