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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

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KIE director quoted in Discover magazine article on “the thorny ethics” of Effective Altruism

KIE director Dan P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD is quoted in an August 4, 2023 online article in Discover Magazine on the “thorny ethics” of the philosophy of Effective, …

August 14, 2023

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KIE scholar publishes first-of-its-kind disability bioethics reader

Senior Research Scholar Joel Michael Reynolds (new window) and Christine Wieseler, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the California State Polytechnic…

May 31, 2023

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KIE scholar named Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics

Senior Research Scholar Joel Michael Reynolds was recently named a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics. Considered one of the top fellowships in the field, the…

June 7, 2022

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KIE Senior Scholar Founds The Journal of Philosophy of Disability

The Kennedy Institute of Ethics celebrates the inaugural issue of The Journal of Philosophy of Disability (JPD), released Thursday, November 18th. Joel Michael Reynolds, KIE…

November 22, 2021

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Call for Applications: Assistant Professor of Bioethics

The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University – a research center for practical ethics with an historical focus on bioethics – invites applications for a tenure…

September 28, 2021

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KIE Announces New Francis J. McNamara, Jr. Chair

The Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE) is pleased to announce that Maggie Little, BPhil, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Senior Research Scholar at the KIE, and Director of the…

August 27, 2021

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KIE Director Appointed to the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs

At the June 2021 meeting of the American Medical Association House of Delegates, KIE Director Dr. Daniel Sulmasy was appointed to the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial.…

July 1, 2021