Welcome
This 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 Events
Savannah 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.
More. . .
Bioethics asks the hard
questions:
- Is it ethical to clone a human being?
- Shall we legalize euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide?
- Should Terri Schiavo's feeding tube have been removed?
- Is there a right to health care - or appropriate
limits to demands for treatment?
- How can we use human subjects in biomedical
research without dehumanizing them?
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