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Seminar Series – Face On or Off: Face Transplants and the Resistance to Categorization

Dec 9

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Seminar Series - Face On or Off: Face Transplants and the Resistance to Categorization

Sharrona Pearl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medical Ethics
Drexel University

Both like and not like cosmetic surgery and whole organ transplants, facial allografts have proven difficult to categorize. This talk will show how bioethicists, surgeons, and journalists have conceptualized face transplants as neither and both, and the resulting stakes for each. Paying particular attention to the media coverage of Isabelle Dinoire’s partial facial allograft in 2005, Pearl will discuss the implications of the cosmetic frame and the whole organ frame for the bioethical debates around FAT.

Bloomberg School of Public Health Feinstone Hall

Symposium on Humanism and Medicine: As if the Patient Mattered

Dec 14

8:00 am - 3:00 pm

Symposium on Humanism and Medicine: As if the Patient Mattered

Speakers including the Berman Institute’s Cynda Rushton and Jeremy Greene will address topics such as burnout and wellness among health care professionals, as well as discuss the erosion of the human relationship between provider and patient

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Chevy Chase Auditorum

Ethics for Lunch – When Birth May Mean Death: Best Decisions in the Light of Uncertainty

Dec 17

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Ethics for Lunch - When Birth May Mean Death: Best Decisions in the Light of Uncertainty

With increasing advances in prenatal sonographic technology and genetic testing, more expectant parents are now learning of potentially devastating diagnoses during pregnancy. The field of genetics is complex and ever-evolving, with some genetic findings having unclear significance and many diagnoses exhibiting a wide spectrum of outcomes. Even a small amount of uncertainty can create extraordinary pressure on parents who will need to make weighty decisions surrounding their baby’s birth and care, and also on medical providers endeavoring to offer meaningful guidance and support. In addition, genetic testing is often non-diagnostic, and, even when positive, the same condition can vary both within and among families.

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Zayed 2117

Conversation with Dani Shapiro, author of the NYT best selling memoir “Inheritance” on Jan. 13

Jan 13

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Conversation with Dani Shapiro, author of the NYT best selling memoir "Inheritance" on Jan. 13

Following a reading by the author, Ruth Faden will moderate discussion of about ethical dimensions of issues raised by her memoir

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Chevy Chase Auditorum

Ethics for Lunch: Decision Making for the Unfriended Patient Who Lacks Decision Making Capacity

Jan 21

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Ethics for Lunch: Decision Making for the Unfriended Patient Who Lacks Decision Making Capacity

Monthly discussion of a vital clinical ethics issue

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Zayed 2117

Seminar Series – Healthcare Architecture: A Moral Imperative

Jan 27

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Seminar Series - Healthcare Architecture: A Moral Imperative

Lecture by healthcare architect and a board-certified internist Diana Anderson, MD, M.Arch, geriatric medicine fellow at the University of California, San Francisco

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Zayed 2117

Brin Lecture

Feb 6

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Brin Lecture

“Disorders of Consciousness, Diagnostics and Disability Rights: How Neuroscience has Transformed the Clinical Transaction” by Joseph Fins, The E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College

Hurd Hall