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John Keown is inducted into the Pontifical Academy for Life in recognition of his influential scholarship on issues such as abortion, palliative care, and euthanasia.

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Intensive Bioethics Course June 4-8, 2012, Georgetown University

The Intensive Bioethics Course is a week-long academic program in bioethics designed for health care practitioners, policy makers, and clinical researchers. The course addresses the day's most challenging topics in health care ethics in a setting that allows for sustained dialogue through lectures and small discussion groups with a distinguished faculty.

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Robert M. VeatchProfessor Veatch's primary research interests include transplantation ethics, ethical issues in death and dying, and issues of consent in therapy and human subjects research.

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