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McDonald-Agape Fellow Ben Frush consulted on debate over prayer in healthcare
A February MedScape column by physician Andrew Wilner about his discomfort with prayer in some clinical settings generated active discussion and a reader poll showing that 70% of…
May 5, 2025
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KIE’s Sulmasy featured on WHYY (Philadelphia) program on the debate over assisted suicide
on April 29, 2025, in response to a bill in Delaware that would legalize assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, NPR affiliate WHYY’s Studio 2 hosted a discussion…
April 30, 2025
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GU wins National Bioethics Bowl for second time in three years
For the second time in three years, Georgetown’s team has won the National Bioethics Bowl. The team’s head coach was GU philosophy PhD Jake Earl, and in the final…
April 9, 2025
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Remembering Tom Beauchamp (1939-2025)
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics mourns the loss of our friend and colleague, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and retired Senior Research Scholar Tom Beauchamp, who passed away…
February 25, 2025
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KIE Director Sulmasy quoted on spirituality in health care on NPR and on the Hippocratic Oath in MedScape
KIE Director Dan Sulmasy, MD, PhD, has been interviewed for two recent news stories on contemporary approaches to longstanding medical practice: addressing the spiritual needs of…
January 23, 2025
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Keown-authored report on physician-assisted suicide widely cited in advance of vote in UK
Update: Letters to the editor from Professor Keown on the subject of the bill legalizing assisted dying have been published in the London Times (29 November 2024) and the Daily…
November 22, 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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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