All Posts: medical ethics
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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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NHS Visiting Jesuit Chair: ‘Bring Our Moral Tradition to Bear’ Through Imagining Improved Health Systems
(March 4, 2022) — Using the gift of imagination and leaning into our Jesuit values can help us identify and solve problems within the health care system, said Rev. Michael Rozier, SJ, the School of Nursing & Health Studies’ first Visiting Jesuit Chair in the Department of Health Systems Administration, at the Values Based Lecture, […]
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Georgetown Nurse Ethicists Help Develop Ethics Toolkit for New ‘Essentials’ of American Association of Colleges of Nursing
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Georgetown Ethicist Collaborates with Physicians to Create Moral Framework for Elective Surgeries During COVID-19
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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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NHS Professor and Graduate Student Discuss Ethical Concerns of PPE Distribution During Current Pandemic
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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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WHO Expert Panel on Human Gene Editing a ‘Very Good Step,’ says Georgetown Medical Ethicist
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (December 14, 2018) — Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it is establishing a “global multi-disciplinary expert panel to examine the scientific, ethical, social and legal challenges associated with human gene editing.” The announcement follows a Chinese scientist’s claim that he performed genetic editing to create twin girls who are resistant to HIV […]
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Georgetown Medical Ethicist Voices Concern About Human Genetic Editing Claimed by Chinese Scientist
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (November 26, 2018) — Media outlets are reporting that a Chinese scientist says he performed genetic editing to create twins girls who are resistant to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. This would reportedly be the first known case of humans undergoing genetic editing before birth. The announcement has stunned the medical […]
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Experts Explore Causes and Solutions to the Opioid Epidemic
(November 20, 2018) — Recognizing that addiction is a complex problem requiring a comprehensive, multi-pronged solution, experts from the fields of medicine, ethics and public policy joined Nora Volkow, MD, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), for a colloquium on the opioid epidemic. The colloquium, titled “Addiction: Medical, Legal and Ethical Perspectives,” was […]
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