Courses, Presentations, and Bioethics Resources

Human Subjects Research Course

The Department of Bioethics offers a yearly fall course, The Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research.
Registration for the 2012 course is currently closed. Check back in summer 2013 for registration information for the 2013 course.

The Department of Bioethics presents Ethics Grand Rounds as part of the Clinical Center Grand Rounds program. Ethics Grand Rounds generally take place four times per year, on Wednesdays from noon-1pm, in Lipsett Auditorium.
Slides from past Ethics Grand Rounds, going back as far as 2002-03, are available.
The Grand Rounds presentations can also be seen via webcast and podcast.

Topic-specific seminar co-sponsored by the NIH Department of Bioethics, The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and the Philosophy Departments of George Washington University and the University of Maryland.
Spring 2012 session: The Duty to Rescue

Thursday, February 16
Law, Morality and the Duty to Rescue
Arthur Ripstein
Professor of Law and Philosophy
University of Toronto
Tuesday, March 20
The Radical Nature of the Duty to Rescue
Alastair Norcross
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Colorado-Boulder
Tuesday, April 10
Ancillary Care Obligations and the Duty to Rescue
Maria Merritt
Assistant Professor
Berman Institute of Bioethics
Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday, May 8
Separateness, Suffering and Moral Theory
David Schmidtz
Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and Joint Professor of Economics
Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Tuesday, May 8
Frances Kamm
Littauer Professor of Philosophy & Public Policy, Professor of Philosophy
Kennedy School of Government, Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Harvard University