| Enjoy this week’s installment of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Ethics’ Friday Newsletter!
Stephen Latham, Center Director, extends an invitation to a “book party” for Barry Schaller’s new book, Veterans on Trial: The Coming Court Battles over PTSD. We’ll gather for wine and cheese at my home, 299 Lawrence St., New Haven, at 5:30 on Thursday, March 7. Barry will be on hand to describe the book—and to sell and sign a few of them, too. Barry is a retired Connecticut Supreme Court justice who continues to serve on the Connecticut Appellate Court. He is a graduate of, and a clinical visiting lecturer at, Yale Law School. A longtime friend of the Bioethics Center, Barry previously authored a 2007 book on bioethics. His new book, which describes the difficulties facing our returning troops with PTSD, and prescribes some legal and policy remedies for some of those difficulties, had its origins in Barry’s work on a Bioethics Center PTSD working group funded by the Donaghue Foundation. If you’d like to join us in our celebration of Barry’s book, please RSVP to me at Stephen.Latham@yale.edu. |
| This Week on Campus
Monday, March 4 Leitner Political Economy Seminar Tuesday, March 5 Rudd Center Seminar MacMillan Center Lecture Program for the Study of Antisemitism Seminar Wednesday, March 6 Politics, Markets & Environment Workshop Thursday, March 7 Human Rights Workshop Humanities in Medicine’s Dobihal Lecture Initial Meeting of Violence and Health Interest Group
Conferences & Off Campus Events National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference (NUBC) -2013 Georgetown University April 5-7, 2013; Bioethics: Intersections in Global Health and Environmental Ethics Policy Interested in Global Health, the Environment, and Bioethics? Do you work with students interested in those topics? The Georgetown Undergraduate Bioethics Society (UBS) is excited to be hosting the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference (NUBC) 2013 at Georgetown University, Friday, April 5 through Sunday, April 7. NUBC 2013 will bring together undergraduate students from across the nation at Georgetown for one weekend to delve into this year’s conference theme, “Bioethics: Intersections of Global Health and Environmental Policy.” Specific aims and objectives for the Conference are to introduce participants to the philosophical underpinnings of bioethics and current scientific and policy issues related to issues in global health and environmental policy; to cultivate rich conversation in ethics; to connect undergraduates to each other and experts; and to promote undergraduate leadership, scholarship, and research. A special feature of the Georgetown conference is a series of sessions designed to equip students for developing policy briefs around topics in global health and environmental policy. By the end of the conference, participants should be able to produce a framework of actionable steps to address a specific issue informed by ethical reasoning and working in close collaboration with peers from other universities. In addition, unique features of the Georgetown conference include a student poster presentation session and a career luncheon. The Conference will also include the annual Bioethics Bowl debate competition. We would welcome student poster presentations on global health, environmental ethics, general issues in bioethics, and/or bioethics and public policy. We hope you will join us for this opportunity to learn more about bioethics and to make connections with other students from universities across the country. Registration is now open and will run through March 15th. You can register on the conference website at https://nubc2013.org. If you have additional questions or are interested in volunteering at the conference, please email bioethicssociety@georgetown.edu. Thank you!
Grants, Fellowships, & Jobs Registration is open for the Tenth Annual Byron Fellowship, May 19-24, 2013 at Turkey Run State Park in Parke County, Indiana. Byron Fellowship is an interdisciplinary course in leadership and sustainable community development that uniquely engages participants through place-based learning. During the five and a half day program, participants will learn with a collection of academic teachers and active practitioners. Fellows and mentors represent a wide spectrum of disciplines including the arts, natural and social science, engineering and design, business, and theology. Teaching methods include tutorial mentoring, collaborative discussion, reflection, and team building. The Byron Fellowship is available to 20 upper class undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates from throughout the world by application. Strong attention is paid toward crafting every Fellowship with diversity capable of supporting a holistic exploration of sustainability. The student cost of the program is limited to a subsidized rate of $250, which includes food and lodging for the event. Need based scholarships are available. Visit our website for more information and to apply: https://www.byronfellowship.org 2013 YCEI Research Grant Competition: Each year Yale Climate & Energy Institute solicits proposals from the Yale community for Interdisciplinary Research Grants in climate and energy. YCEI grants are intended to act as seed funds to establish new areas of research and, ideally, to lead to or leverage larger grants from established agencies. Projects involving collaborations that transcend traditional boundaries are preferred, although all creative proposals will receive strong consideration. Proposals must come from Yale faculty, but Yale staff and students are encouraged to work with faculty on proposals. Proposals can include external collaborations. Preference will be given to faculty who have not previously received YCEI support. Research Grants are awarded for a maximum of two years and cover basic expenses, such as salary for postdoctoral researchers or fellows, stipends or wages for student research assistants, equipment, sample and data purchasing and analysis, and travel for PIs and collaborators. Grants cannot be used for faculty salary, including summer salary. The total budget should not exceed $100,000. YCEI encourages applications for research projects below this maximum level. We seek diversity in duration, size, scope, research focus, and collaborative intensity. There are no indirect costs associated with these grants, which means that the full award can be devoted to the project. Collaborations among different units within Yale University will be given the highest priority. YCEI anticipates funding as many as three new interdisciplinary grants each year. This year the deadline for proposals is May 1. Selections will be announced by June 15. For further details, including requirements for proposals, please click here. Science for Sustainable and Healthy Tribes
Calls for Papers & Nominations The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics is pleased to invite proposals for panels and papers for presentation at the 2014 World Congress in Mexico City, 22-24 June 2014. The Congress theme is Health Care Ethics: Local, Global, Universal. While FAB encourages submissions on this team, submissions on any topic in feminist bioethics are welcome. Paper abstracts should be 300 words, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by both a descriptive title for the paper proposed and 2-3 keywords. Proposed panels should also be prepared for anonymous review and consist of a 300-word description of the overall topic and objectives of the panel, as well as a panel title and the titles of all the papers to be included in the panel. All submissions should include the names, e-mail addresses, and full affiliations of all authors. In cases of panels and co-authored papers, please identify a corresponding author. One or two submitted papers may be selected for plenary presentations. If you wish your paper to be considered for a plenary, please submit the full paper and indicate that you seek review for a plenary. The conference organizers welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, the social sciences, critical cultural studies (gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, race studies, etc.), law, public health, and others. We particularly encourage submissions from early career researchers. Submissions (in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format) should be e-mailed to fab.mexico.2014@gmail.com by 1 September 2013. This e-mail address should only be used for communications concerning submissions, and not for general conference or FAB inquiries. For more information about FAB, visit www.fabnet.org. The Journal of Community Positive Practices is a Social Research Review with appearance in both printed and electronic versions which proposes topics of public interest published in accordance with the rules described within the section instructions for authors. Submissions in English for our next release are received until the 20th of March 2013 (for JCPP 1 / 2013). For this issue, we will be accepting email submission (office@jppc.ro). Topics could include:Community best practices (social interventions), Best practices in social projects implementation, Preventing and combating of social exclusion, Interventions at the level of the vulnerable groups, Equal access to education, Improving the situation of Minorities, Immigrants, Vulnerable People, Rehabilitation of persons who committed penal deeds, Community Justice Administration – Community Policing, Probation, Prison, Modern Administration of Urban/Rural Areas, Gender Equality, Social Research, Assessment of socio-economic projects, Families challenges in modern societies, Child protection, Social economy, Social and/or rural entrepreneurship.
Other Items of Interest Department of Social Science, Medicine & Health, King’s College London. Applications are invited for those wishing to pursue a Full-Time Masters Programme in the Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine starting from September 2013. Each award will provide £2000 toward home/EU tuition fees. There is one award for one student on each of the following Masters programmes: MSc Medicine, Science & Society, MA in Bioethics & Society and MSc in Global Health & Social Justice. Two awards in total are available for students on the following Masters programmes: MSc Gerontology, MA/MSc Ageing & Society or MA Public Policy & Ageing.Health & Illness are more than medical matters; illness is a human experience, in which biological processes are shaped by social, political and economic conditions, by cultural beliefs and values, and by systems of language and meaning. The Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine is unique interdisciplinary social science department working in collaboration with biomedical researchers and clinicians. We focus on the social, political, economic, legal and ethical factors shaping developments in biomedicine, disease and healthcare and their implications. It is also home to the Institute of Gerontology, a leading multi-disciplinary centre for research and teaching into the study of ageing. More information about the Department (and the Institute) and its strands of research can be found here and here. All students applying for any of our Full-Time programmes to begin in September 2013 are eligible for these bursaries, including UK, EU and Overseas students. The bursaries will be awarded on academic merit. There is no separate application procedure. All fully completed applications received by midnight on the 31st July will be considered for the bursaries. A fully completed application means a complete online application form together with all supporting documents including personal statements, transcripts, references and IELTS certificates (where appropriate). These must have been uploaded to or received by the Postgraduate Admissions Portal by the due time and date. The successful candidate will be notified no later than 14th August. Payments will be made in October and January. Full details of all our Masters programmes are available here.
Articles of Interest In the News Featured Article Tucker, Abigail. Are Babies Born Good? Smithsonian Magazine. January 2013. Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Rovner, Julie. Morning-After Pills Don’t Cause Abortion, Studies Say. NPR. 21 February 2013. The most heated part of the fight between the Obama administration and religious groups over new rules that require most health plans to cover contraception actually has nothing to do with birth control. It has to do with abortion. Specifically, do emergency contraceptives interfere with a fertilized egg and cause what some consider to be abortion? Continue reading… Environment Talmadge, Eric. US Gov’t to Air-Drop Toxic Mice on Guam Snakes. ABC News. 22 February 2013. Health Care Mezrich, Joshua. On Purposely Getting Arrested to Get Life-Saving Surgery. The Atlantic. 26 February 2013. Law and Bioethics Payne, Ed and Ashley Fantz. Parents of transgender first-grader file discrimination complaint. CNN. 27 February 2013. Andrews, Michelle. Long-term-care insurance plans call for some women to pay more than men. Washington Post. 25 February 2013. Kevles, Daniel J. Can They Patent Your Genes? New York Review of Books. 7 March 2013. Medical Ethics Shute, Nancy. Anesthesia Care and Web-Surfing May Not Mix, Nurses Say. NPR. 26 February 2013.The next time you’re being wheeled into the operating room, you might want to ask the medical professionals there to lay off the eBay and Twitter apps on their phones. That’s the word from the nation’s nurse anesthetists, who just came out with a new policy urging OR staff to use their smartphones for the practice of medicine, not Facebooking. The policy is a bit vague, in part because no one’s really studied whether it’s risky for healthcare workers to use smartphones for “non-essential” web time at work. Continue reading… Sack, Kevin. ‘Bloodless’ Lung Transplants Offer Hint at Surgery’s Future. New York Times. 24 February 2013. Research Ethics Markoff, John. Connecting the Neural Dots. New York Times. 25 February 2013. Technology Johnson, Brian David. The Future of Lying. Slate. 26 February 2013. In the Journals Friedman, Lawrence. A Holist’s Anxiety of Influence: Commentary on Kirshner. American Psychoanalytic Association. November 2012. Macer, Darryl. Ethical Consequences of the Positive Views of Enhancement in Asia. Health Care Analysis. December 2012. Nisbet, Matthew C. Bioethics in popular science: evaluating the impact of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on the biobank debate. BMC Medical Ethics. February 2013. Ren, Xiaoping. The Next Frontier in Composite Tissue Allotransplantation. CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics. November 2012. Opinion Ars Technica Timmer, John. Sequestration to kill 1,000 NSF grants. February 27, 2013. Timmer, John. Smokers need not apply for jobs at Penn medical system. February 26, 2013. Chicago Tribune Editorial. Health care headache. February 26, 2013. Los Angeles Times Editorial. Antibiotics, animals and us. February 28, 2013. Editorial. Critiquing the stem cell board. February 27, 2013. Editorial. The right way to regulate pot. February 28, 2013. New York Times Editorial. DNA and the constitution. Februrary 24, 2013. Editorial. The next frontier is inside your brain. February 23, 2013. Editorial. Making some painkillers hard to get. February 21, 2013. Slate Sanghavi, Darshak. Why do so many people think they need gluten-free foods? February 26, 2013. Washington Post Editorial. A prize for life. February 24, 2013. |
Yale Friday Newsletter – 03/01/13
