THE NINTH ANNUAL McLAUGHLIN SYMPOSIUM
Emerging Infectious Diseases: Ethics, Law and Professional Obligation
Dates: April 16-18, 2009
(Click here for Conference Information.)
Place: Galveston Island Convention Center at the San Luis Resort, 5600 Seawall Boulevard, Galveston, Texas
Description: Scientists studying emerging infectious diseases feel considerable urgency to develop vaccines, drugs and other therapeutic and preventive measures suitable for SARS, avian flu, extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis and other threats. These efforts will be ineffective, however, unless enough practitioners remain at their posts to administer the treatments. The Emerging Infectious Diseases: Ethics, Law and Professional Obligation conference will offer an opportunity for exchange and dialogue among scientists and bioethics, humanities and legal scholars from national and international institutions in an effort to facilitate novel approaches to pandemic preparedness.
Endorsed by:
The
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities whose 10th Annual Meeting, "Future Tense," which met October 23-26, 2008, in Cleveland, OH.
Click here for registration information. For more information, call Beverly Claussen at 409-772-9386.
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Welcome To
The Institute for the Medical Humanities
The Institute for the Medical Humanities is committed to moral inquiry, research, teaching, and professional service in medicine and health care. In today's often bewildering world of scientific, technological, cultural, and political changes, medicine faces human problems and possibilities that transcend traditional academic disciplines. Members of the Institute engage in research on ethical and legal problems in clinical practice and biomedical research; and on philosophical, historical, visual, literary, and religious dimensions of medicine and health care. This broad-gauged inquiry provides the foundation for the activities of the Institute faculty in medical and graduate teaching, clinical ethics consultation, and health policy analysis locally and in state, national, and international academic and public forums.
Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D, John P. McGovern Centennial Chair, arrived at the IMH in May, 2006 to assume the position of Director. Previously he was the University Distinguished Professor of Family Practice, Philosophy, and the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University, East Lansing. He served as Director of MSU's Center for Ethics and Humanities from 1985 to 2000.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mailing address:
University of Texas Medical Branch
301 University Blvd.
Galveston, Texas, USA 77555-1311
Phone:
(409) 772-2376
Fax:
(409) 772-5640
