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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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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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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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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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Reynolds quoted in Wall Street Journal story about ethical implications of advances in reproductive technologies

KIE’s Joel Michael Reynolds, assistant professor of philosophy and disability studies, was quoted in an October 28, 2023 Wall Street Journal essay titled “What If Men…

November 22, 2023

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

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

May 31, 2023

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KIE scholar Joel Michael Reynolds elected as a fellow of The Hastings Center 

Senior Research Scholar Joel Michael Reynolds  has been recognized by The Hastings Center for his groundbreaking work on disability in the field of bioethics. The…

March 3, 2023

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Remembering Prof. Dr. phil. Hans-Martin Sass (1935-2023)

Prof. Dr. Phil. Hans-Martin Sass*December 4, 1935 –  †February 6, 2023 With sadness, we share news of the passing of Prof. Dr. phil. Hans-Martin Sass on February 6, 2023…

March 1, 2023