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Keown-authored report on physician-assisted suicide widely cited in advance of vote in UK
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Improving the Quality of the Debate, a report written for Policy Exchange, a leading think tank in the United Kingdom, by John Keown, DPhil, PhD, DCL,…
November 22, 2024
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Call for Applications: Rose F. Kennedy Chair in Christian Ethics
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University is seeking nominations and applications for the Rose F. Kennedy Chair in Christian Ethics, a tenure-track position to…
October 24, 2024
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Reynolds discusses clinical import of 2023 NIH decision on disabled people and health disparity
Senior Research Scholar Joel Michael Reynolds published a new article in JAMA Health Forum, a journal of the American Medical Association. In it, they discuss the larger…
June 17, 2024
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Sulmasy recognized for Excellence in Medical Ethics by Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM)
Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD, André Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, received the Society for…
June 12, 2024
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Carl Elliott MD, PhD speaks on whistleblowing and unethical medical research June 21st
Why They Blow the Whistle: Book Talk with Carl Elliott, MD, PhD 12:00 pm on Friday, June 21, 2024 at the Herman Room in theHealey Family Student Center, Georgetown…
June 10, 2024
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Aas co-authors bioethics textbook, article in Journal of Medicine & Philosophy
Along with Collin O’Neil and Chiara Lepora, Sean Aas, Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy Department, has-…
May 13, 2024
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Reynolds speaks at GU/MedStar research and education symposium on how to improve care for disabled patients
On Monday, April 29, 2024 KIE Senior Scholar Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD, MA, spoke at the 2024 MedStar Health-Georgetown University Research and Education Symposium at the…
May 2, 2024
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Patients benefit from attending to spirituality in health care, says Georgetown University bioethics expert
(WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2024) In a Perspective piece titled "Physicians, Spirituality, and Compassionate Patient Care" in the March 21, 2024 issue of the New England…
March 20, 2024
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Sulmasy quoted on medical aid-in-dying, brain death, capital punishment
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Director Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD has been quoted in a number of media outlets over the last three months in stories addressing timely bioethical…
March 10, 2024
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Senior Scholar John Keown, DPhil, PhD, DCL in The Critic (UK) on the ethics of lockdowns
Senior Scholar John Keown, DPhil, PhD, DCL, has published an op-ed in The Critic (UK) on the ethics of lockdowns. David Paton and John Keown, ‘Were Lockdowns Ethical?&; …
February 7, 2024