Panels and Events

2008 Featured Speakers

Tod S. Chambers, Ph.D., on "Witches, Punks, and Bioethicists."
Dr. Chambers is President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities; Associate Professor of Medical Humanities (Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University), author of The Fiction of Bioethics.

Susan E. Lederer, PhD on "The Myth and Metaphor of Frankenstein."
Dr. Lederer is Chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics,
Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics,
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and author of Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America (2008) and Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature.

Harriet A. Washington, Ph.D., on "Medical Apartheid."
Dr. Washington is a Visiting Scholar at DePaul University College of Law, Medical Ethicist, writer, Research Fellow in Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School; John S. Knight Fellow in Jouralism, Stanford University; Fellow of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course and recipient of Harvard Journalism Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Public Health; author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday).


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