All Posts:bioethics
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Nurse-Bioethicist Christine Grady Returns to Her Roots at Georgetown
Christine Grady, RN, PhD, FAAN (N’74, G’93), an alumna who has built her career exploring the ethics of biomedical research, has returned to the Hilltop — a place where she has deep academic and personal roots.
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A Partnership for Good
A conversation with nurse-bioethicist Christine Grady (N’74, G’93) and her husband, new faculty member Anthony Fauci
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Nursing and Medical Students Debate Ethical Dilemmas as Pellegrino Student Scholars
(December 9, 2022) — In a clinical bioethics program unique to Georgetown, a select group of nursing and medical students — known as Pellegrino Student Scholars — work closely together as they discover that practicing cura personalis includes navigating challenging ethical decisions with their patients and families. “Clinical bioethics provides the tools needed to navigate […]
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Jesuit, Doctor, Ethicist to Lead Pellegrino Center
(December 5, 2020) — Myles Sheehan, SJ, MD, first met Edmund Pellegrino, the legendary bioethicist and founder of Georgetown’s Edmund D. Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, in 1994. At the time, Sheehan, already a Jesuit priest and physician, was considering career directions. His conversation with Pellegrino helped guide him toward 14 formative years working in […]
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Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing: Getting it ‘Morally Right’
(September 18, 2019) — The TV advertisements for DNA testing are ubiquitous: there’s one with the young man who thought he was part German until genetic testing led him to trade his lederhosen for a kilt, and there’s a woman pictured taking exciting trips to various parts of the world — from Scandinavia to West […]
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