9:00 - 10:30

The Bioethics of the Human Genome Diversity Project: Cross-Cultural Currents
Chair: Dean Stephen Gehlbach, School of Public Health, UMass
Speaker: Professor Alan Swedlund, Anthropology Dept., UMass
Commentator: Professor Ann Herring, Anthropology, McMaster University (Canada)

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:15

Parental Autonomy and Reproductive Technologies: Babies to Specification?
Chair: Professor Brenda Milette, School of Nursing, UMass
Speaker: Professor Bonnie Steinbock, Philosophy, SUNY/Albany
Commentator: Clay Splawn, Philosophy, UMass

12:15 - 2:00

Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30

An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide
Chair: Dr. Andrew Larkin, Chair, Ethics Committee, Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Speaker: Professor Bernard Gert, Philosophy, Dartmouth College
Commentator: Jean-Paul Vessel, Philosophy, UMass

3:30 - 3:45

Refreshment Break

3:45 - 5:15

Just Distribution of Health Care: Substantive and Procedural Issues
Chair: Dr. Deborah Morsi, Ethics Committee, Baystate Medical Center
Speaker: Professor Dan Brock, Philosophy, Brown University
Commentator:Don Berkich, Philosophy, UMass

 

This Conference is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, UMass, with funds from the Commonwealth College; it was planned and organized by students in an honors course in medical ethics.