UTMB carries lectures live every Tuesday

For immediate release: Sept. 17, 2007
GALVESTON, Texas - The public is invited to attend a series of free televised lectures titled "Medical Ethics During and After the Holocaust" at 6 p.m. every Tuesday through Dec. 11 on the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston campus.

The lectures are televised live from Houston and are shown in Room 1.102 at the School of Nursing/Allied Health Sciences building, 11th and Mechanic streets. Free parking is available at the surface parking lot in front of the building on Mechanic Street. Light refreshments will be provided.

To reserve a seat, please e-mail imendoza@utmb.edu no later than 5 p.m. the day before each lecture. For more information, please contact Cheyenne Martin at (409) 772-8327, e-mail damartin@utmb.edu. Information about the lectures also is available at http://www.nodussolutions.com/MedicalEthics/.

The lecture schedule is below (on some evenings the schedule includes two 45-minute lectures):

September 18
"Why Is It So Hard to Learn the Ethical Lessons of the Holocaust?," by Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Medical Ethics, director of the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania.

September 25
"A More Perfect Human: The Promise and Peril of Modern Medicine," by Leon R. Kass, M.D., Ph.D. Hertog Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

October 2
6 p.m. "Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis," by Sandra Ann Carson, M.D., professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University.

6:45 p.m.: "From Long Island to Auschwitz: The Surprising Origin of the ‘Master Race' Concept," by Edwin Black, New York Times and international best-selling investigative author whose work focuses on genocide and hate.

October 9
6 p.m.: "What Should We Tell Medical Students about Racial Hygiene, Cultural Diversity, the Doctor-Patient Relationship and Professionalism?," by Theresa M. Duello, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

6:45 p.m.: "What Should We Tell Medical Students about Racial Hygiene, Cultural Diversity, the Doctor-Patient Relationship and Professionalism?," by Jordan Cohen, M.D., president emeritus, Association of American Medical Colleges.

October 16
6 p.m.: "How Doctors Become Killers," by Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., chairman, the President's Council on Bioethics; professor emeritus of medicine and medical ethics and adjunct professor of philosophy, Georgetown University.

6:45 p.m.: "What is the Status of the Government-Citizen Relationship in the United States Today?," by Ward Connerly, founder and chairman, American Civil Rights Institute; president and CEO of Connerly & Associates Inc. and author of the autobiography "Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences."

October 23
6 p.m.: "Frankenstein or the More Perfect Human: Who Will It Be?," by Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D., associate professor, history of medicine, Yale University School of Medicine.

6:45 p.m.: "Immediate Gratification and the Quest for Perfection: A Frank Discussion About the Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports," by Mark Adickes, M.D., co-medical director, the Roger Clemens Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance, Memorial Hermann.

October 30
Panel discussion: "Disability and Genocide: Where Are We Today?," by Lex Frieden, senior vice president at Memorial Hermann-TIRR, former chairman, National Council on Disability.

November 6
"Cinematic Perspectives on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide," by Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., Brown Foundation Professor of Psychoanalysis, professor and director, Baylor Psychiatry Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine.
 
November 13
"The Legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial to American Bioethics and Human Rights," by George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H., chairman, Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health.

November 20
6 p.m.: "Power for Life or Power for Death? How and Why Science and Religion Can Work Together for Life After the Holocaust," by Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Ph.D.

6:45 p.m.: "Science, Medicine and Religion After the Holocaust," by John M. Haas, Ph.D., president, National Catholic Bioethics Center.

November 27
6 p.m.: "Physician Aid in Dying and Why Should This Option be Available? What Happens When Aid in Dying is Legal?," by Kathryn L. Tucker, J.D., director, Legal Affairs for Compassion & Choices; adjunct professor of law, Lewis & Clark School of Law.

6:45 p.m.: "Is Physician-Assisted Suicide Ever Permissible?," by Wesley Smith, senior fellow, Discovery Institute; attorney, International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide; and special consultant, Center for Bioethics and Culture.

December 4
6 p.m."Academic Medicine During the Nazi Period and Implications for Creating Awareness of Professional Responsibility Today," by Prof. Volker Roelcke, chairman and director, Institute of the History of Medicine, University of Gisse, and William Seidelman, M.D., professor emeritus, Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.

December 11
6 p.m.: "Mad, Bad or Evil: How Physician Healers Turn to Torture, Murder and Genocide from the Nazi Doctors to Abu Ghraib," by Michael A. Grodin, M.D., professor, Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health.

6:45 p.m.: "Is Medicine a Pacifist Vocation or Should Doctors Help Build Bombs?," by Michael L. Gross, Ph.D., chairman, Division of International Relations, School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel.
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