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In the SpotlightEach year, over 400,000 pregnant women in the US face significant medical illness. But information about how to treat these conditions in pregnancy is profoundly limited. A project co-sponsored by the Kennedy Institute of Ethics identified key steps toward responsibly gathering needed data - and started a movement.

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John LanganProfessor Langan is currently working on a manuscript on the ethics of humanitarian intervention; his research interests are wide-ranging and include just war theory and human rights in theory and practice.

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Intensive Bioethics Course June 7-11, 2010, Georgetown University

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IBC 36 Registration deadline extended to Friday, May 28, 2010.

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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