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WelcomeThis is the Undergraduate Bioethics Program at the University of Virginia.If you are a prospective student, you can find information about the centerpiece of this program, the Minor in Bioethics, under Academic Programs, or hear about the experiences of one of our alumni. If you are a current student, you can find a quick list of Bioethics courses on the Course Offerings page. News and EventsSavannah Thompson-Hoffman,(4th year government major/bioethics minor) has written a prize-winning abstract for a paper she will deliver at the National Dilemmas and Struggles in Transplantation Conference in Chicago in April 2008. Her abstract won one of the three best abstract awards, which includes an honorarium of $1000 to speak at this forum of transplant surgeons and physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and ethicists who are gathering to discuss and debate issues in the field of solid organ transplantation. Congrats Savannah! Elizabeth Fenton (4th yr graduate student, philosophy) was awarded one of two postdoctoral fellowships in the Program on Ethics and Health at Harvard University, http://peh.harvard.edu/fellowship/index.html. For the next two years she will attend a special seminar for fellows and pursue her own research in the area of bioethics and human rights. |
What is Bioethics?
Bioethics is both a field of intellectual inquiry and a professional
practice that examines moral questions at the intersection of biology,
medicine, law, public health, policy, and ethics - all broadly construed. |
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