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CENTER NEWS
June 22, 2009
Perlman Receives Award for "Bioethics 2.0" Project
Center Associate Dr. David Perlman was awarded $10,000 by Penn Nursing to integrate innovative educational technologies into his nursing class at Penn. The award is the second year of funding for Perlman and will allow him to develop a series of video podcasts on topics in clinical ethics, deployment of interactive wikis to capture student research and encourage group collaboration, and license several ethics education scenarios from E4 - Eclipse Ethics Education Enterprises, LLC. Working with Perlman on the project this summer is Center intern and UCLA pre-med student, Rebecca Cha. Use of the interactive wikis will allow students to access these resources while enrolled in Perlman's course but also later in their clinical studies as ethics resources. The podcasts will also appear on Penn Nursing's iTunes University site. Disclosure: Dr. Perlman is the President & Founder of E4 and inventor of the Crucial Choices learning format.
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July 9, 2009
Center for Bioethics
2009 Summer Intern Lecture Series
“When Can Parents Refuse Medical Care for a Child?”
Arthur Caplan, PhD
12:00pm
Suite 321
3401 Market St.
Open to students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Bridgette King (email or tel: 573-7136).
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IN THE MEDIA
June 27, 2009
Details, schmetails: Think big on health care
In a commentary for MSNBC.com, Arthur Caplan writes that reform requires appealing to American values, not number cruncher.
As the debate over health care reform heats up this summer, the new battle cry of those who oppose change is that overhauling the nation’s health care can’t work because reform is “all in the details.” And the details, the critics say, don’t add up. Republican critics in the House and Senate along with the American Medical Association, the United States Chamber of Commerce and the pundits of right-wing talk radio, TV and blogs are warning daily that without the “details,” health reform cannot possibly proceed. Read more...
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July 19, 2009
Synthetic Biology's Emergence and Potential To Be Discussed at World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology
Successful applications and popular exploration have positioned the field of synthetic biology to become a growth industry. Thought leaders from the United States and Europe will explore the implications of the synthetic biology’s rapid emergence during the 2009 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, to be held July 19-22, 2009 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The Tuesday July 21 Lunch Plenary Session will feature a discussion of among high-level speakers:
Arthur Caplan, Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania;
Jim Greenwood, President and CEO, Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO);
Denise Caruso, Executive Director and Chair, The Hybrid Vigor Institute; and
Kristala Jones Prather, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT.
For more information or to register, please visit the Sixth Annual World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprocessing website.
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