Berman Institute of Bioethics Seminar Series  

The Berman Institute hosts seminars every other Monday. The seminars are open to anyone. Previously known as Bioethics Interest Group meetings, the seminar series features speakers from the world of academia such as faculty, fellows, and the occasional PhD candidate from The Johns Hopkins University.  
 

  
FALL 2007 SCHEDULE

Monday, October 22 (Now posted online
12:15 PM 
Hampton House 208 
 
Missed the seminar? Listen to it here.
 
Monday, November 12
12:15 PM
Hampton House 208
Fred Levy, Corianne Iacovelli, and Rachel Grunberger
Allocating Organs: Ethical and Policy Challenges

Monday, November 26 (Now posted online
12:15 PM
BSPH, W4030
Courtland Robinsonand Gil Burnham, Research Ethics: Working with Conflict-Affected and Hidden Populations
 
Missed the presentation? See it here.
 
Monday, December 10 
12:15 PM
Hampton House 208
Leslie Meltzer, Six Degrees of Dignity: Can a Concept With so Many Meanings Play a Leading Role in Bioethics?
 
Spring 2007 SCHEDULE
 
Monday, January 14 (Now Posted Online)
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W2008
Paul Appelbaum, MD,
Blame It on My Genes! Behavioral Genetics and the Causes of Crime
  
Missed the seminar? See it here.
 
Monday, January 28  (Now Posted Online)
Location: 600 N. Wolfe Street, CMSC 306 Pediatrics (Schaffer Amphitheater)
Myra Bluebond-Langer, PhD, MA, Involving Children with Life Limiting and Life Shortening Illnesses in Medical Decisions
 
Missed the seminar? See it here. 
Rogan Kersh, PhD, The Politics of Obesity: Ethical & Historical Considerations           
 
Monday, February 25  
 Raphael Cohen-Almagor, DPhil, MA, Euthanasia in Belgium: Policy Making and Reform Proposals             

Monday, March 10

Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030
Jeff Kahn, PhD, MPH, Providence or Pandora's Box? The Ethics of Incidental Findings in Research

 
Monday, March 24
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Susan Lederer, PhD, MA, Henry Beecher's Bombshell? Ethics and Omissions in Clinical Research in the 1960s.           

Monday, April 14             
Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3008
Steve Pearson, MD, MSc, FRCP,
Ethics and the Use of Evidence to Improve "Value" in Health Care
                
             
Monday, April 28       

Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W3030 ( NOTE ROOM CHANGE )   
Dan O’Connor, PhD, " Do You Believe in Gender?" - Transsexuality, Narrative, and the Bioethics of Cutting Off Your Leg 

                           

Monday, May 12      

Location: 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4030    
Ruth Macklin, PhD, HIV Prevention Trials: What are the Ethical Issues? 

 

 

* All Seminars begin at 12:15 PM * Lunch will be provided * Locations are subject to change *

* Reminders for individual seminars will continue to be emailed out as usual *

 

For more information contact Kiran Khaira at kkhaira@jhsph.edu or  410-516-8576