The public face of bioethics focuses on hot-button issues such as stem cell research, genetic privacy and physician-assisted suicide. These are, without doubt, critical issues. But larger policy questions are often neglected. This multidisciplinary lecture series examines a wide range of neglected issues—from the ethics of health care reform to the impact of industry and national security funding on biomedical research, from the effects of climate change on global health to the ethics of food choice.
Nancy Olivieri, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), Professor, Pediatrics, Medicine and Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto
David U. Himmelstein, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Co-Founder of Physicians for a National Health Program
Allen M. Hornblum, Temple University, Author, with
Edward "Yusef" Anthony, former inmate test subject
Cheap and Available: The American Medical and Pharmaceutical Community’s Love Affair with Prison InmatesRebecca Kukla, Professor of Philosophy and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of South Florida
Jonathan D. Moreno, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, Professor of Medical Ethics, and Professor of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Mind Wars: Brain Research and National DefenseMark Schapiro, Editorial Director, Center for Investigative Reporting
Paul Epstein, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School
Confronting Climate Instability: Health Consequences and Healthy Solutions
Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, and Professor of Sociology, New York University
The Ethics of Food Choice: Personal Responsibility vs. Social Responsibility
