Past Presentations

The following list of seminars and lectures is merely a sample:
it omits many Program presentations.

SEMINAR SERIES, GRAND ROUNDS AND PUBLIC LECTURES

GEM Anscombe, LLD, Cambridge University
Lethal Transplants (1988)

Hymie Gordon, MD, Mayo Clinic
The Tennessee Embryo Case (1989)

Peter T Geach, PhD, University of Leeds
Persons, Brains and Consciousness (1989)

University Hospital Nurses and Residents Ethics Forum
The Cruzan Case (1989)

GEM Anscombe, LLD, Cambridge University
Murder and the Morality of Euthanasia (1990)

John M Dolan, PhD & Jane Hoyt, MEd
The Cruzan Decision (1990)

Anna Lawler, RN, MS
The Use of Tissue from Human Fetuses (1990)

Hymie Gordon, MD, Mayo Clinic
Towards Molecular Treatment of Genetic Disorders (1990)

University Hospital Nurses and Residents Ethics Forum
Living Wills (1990)

Professor GEM Anscombe
Must One Obey One's Conscience? (1991)

Thomas J Bouchard, PhD, University of Minnesota
Public Policy Implications of Identical Twins Studies (1991)

Keith Crutcher, PhD
The Human Fetus as Donor (1991)

GEM Anscombe, LLD, Cambridge University
Brain Death (1991)

Steven H. Miles, MD, University of Minnesota
The Helga Wanglie Case (1991)

Leonid Hurwicz, National Academy of Sciences
Economics and Individual Welfare (1991)

GEM Anscombe & Michael Gerrity
"Operation Rescue" (1992)

John M. Dolan, PhD, University of Minnesota
"Radical Moral Disagreement" (1992)

Hymie Gordon, MD, Mayo Clinic
"How Medicine Became a Science" (1992)

Lester E Block, PhD, School of Public Health
"Health Care Rationing" (1992)

Sandra L Menssen, PhD, University of St. Thomas
"Theodicy: The Limits of Moral Evaluation" (1992)

Paul Benjamin Linton, JD, Americans United for Life
"The Impact of the Casey Decision on Abortion Law" (1992)

A two-part seminar led by C Anthony Anderson, PhD,
John M Dolan , PhD, & Paul E Meehl, PhD
"The Status of Ethical Principles" (1993)

Louis Kilzer, Star Tribune
"Media Bias in AIDS Coverage" (1993)

Michael Osterholm, PhD, State Epidemiologist
"The AIDS Mythology: a Rebuttal" (1993)

GEM Anscombe, Cambridge University
"Practical Truth" (1993)

Madame Nelly Hewitt, le Chambon-sur-Lignon
"Weapons of the Spirit" (1993)

Steven E Calvin, MD & Ron Hoekstra, MD
"Ethical and Financial Aspects of Care of the Extremely Premature Infant" (1993)

Sarah Ehlen Haecker, PhD candidate, University of Minnesota
"Should Germ Line Intervention Be Considered for Use in Human Beings?" (1993)

The Task of Medicine: A Rich Past and an Open Future
A six-part lecture series co-sponsored by the Medica Foundation (1993-1994)
Hymie Gordon, MD, Mayo Clinic

• "How Medicine Became a Science" (1993)
• "Hippocrates: the Dawn of a Rational Approach to Medicine" (1993)
• "The Rise of Preventive Medicine: Jenner vs Smallpox and Lind vs Scurvy" (1993)
• "Beethoven and Medical Practice in 19th Century Vienna" (1994)
• "Ethical Aspects of the Human Genome Project" (1994)
• "The Task of Medicine" (1994)

Roger Taylor, IBM
"Health Care Allocation and a Theory of Moral Consensus" (1994)

Jasper Hopkins, PhD, RN, University of Minnesota
"Alleged Discriminatory Practices with Respect to Treatment
Decisions Concerning Women Patients" (1994)

Michael Christenson, Medica Foundation
"The Challenges of Medicaid for Managed Care"

Judith Ney, MD
"Assisted Reproduction Technology" (1994)

Mahmoud G Nagib, MD, University of Minnesota
"High Risk Surgery on Handicapped Newborns" (1994)

Richard Fenigsen, MD, PhD
"Euthanasia in the Netherlands" (1994)

Konald A Prem, MD, University of Minnesota
"Breast Feeding and Fertility" (1995)

Paul Benjamin Linton, JD, Americans United for Life
"Kevorki Park: the Current Status of Assisted Suicide
under United States Law" (1995)

Thomas D Sullivan, PhD, University of St Thomas
"Is There Any Difference Between Killing and Letting Die?" (1995)

David Bryden, JD, University of Minnesota
"Redefining Rape" (1995)

John M Dolan, PhD, University of Minnesota
"Is Physician Assisted Suicide Possible?" (1995)

GEM Anscombe, Cambridge University
"Twenty Opinions Common Among Modern Anglo-American Philosophers" (1995)

Paul Benjamin Linton, JD, Americans United for Life
"Personhood Under the Law" (1995)

Stephen Mosher, Claremont Graduate School
"Women in China" (1995)

Robert J Gorlin, DSci, University of Minnesota
"The Evil Eye in Mediterranean Culture" (1996)

Ben Bornsztein, PhD, Hennepin County Medical Center
"Changes in Graduate Medical Education" (1996)

David O'Steen, PhD, National Right to Life Committee
"Health Care Rationing" (1996)

Norman Fruman, PhD, University of Minnesota
"Political Correctness" (1996)

Gordon Dewald, PhD, Mayo Clinic
"Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization" (1996)

John M. Dolan, Ph.D, Carl P. Malmquist, MD,
and Michael H. Tonry, LL.B
"Homicide: Clinical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives" (1996)

Steven H. Miles, MD, University of Minnesota
"Allocating Scarce Resources" (1996)

Gordon DeWald PhD, Mayo Clinic
 "Applications of Fluorescent Labeled Chromosome-Specific Probes in Medical Practice" (1996)

Velvl Greene, PhD, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
"Voluntary Victims" (1997)

Noam Chomsky, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Democracy and Rights: Reflections on the Current Scene" (1997)

Curtis B. Herbert, PhD, University of Minnesota
"Exploring the Ethics of Animal Experimentation" (1997)

Paul Benjamin Linton, JD, Americans United for Life
"The Supreme Court¿s Recent Decisions on Assisted Suicide: Death Blow or Simple Setback?" (1997)

Theodore C. Nagel, MD, University of Minnesota
"The Fertility Cost Warranty Program--A New Paradigm of Payment for Assisted Reproductive Technologies" (1997)

Philip J. Regal, PhD, University of Minnsota
"The Bonobo:  Our Closest Primate Cousin is Near Extinction:  What is Being Lost?" (1997)

David Bryden, JD, University of Minnesota
"Redefining Rape" (1998)

Paul A. Byrne, MD, St. Charles Hospital, Ohio
"Brain Death and Organ Transplants" (1998)

Bryan E. Dowd, PhD & Roger Feldman, PhD
Institute for Health Services Research, University of Minnesota
"Envy, Charity and other Economic Matters: Applications to Health Policy" (1998)

Mark Soderstrom, MA, University of Minnesota
"Weeds in Linnaeus' Garden:  Eugenics and Racial  Segregation at the University of Minnesota 1910-1940" (1998)

Joel Turnipseed, Fellow in Creative Prose, Minnesota State Arts Board
"Revisiting the 'Ancient Quarrel'" (1998)

Elizabeth Boyle, JD, PhD, University of Minnesota
"International Norms and Local Cultures: The Impact of International Pressure on Reductions in Female Genital Cutting" (1999)

John M. Dolan, PhD, University of Minnesota
"Has Legalized Abortion Cut Crime Rates?" (1999)

Stephen Feinstein, PhD
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota
"The Language and Visions of Otherness and Cleansing: Racial Hygiene and the Holocaust" (1999)

Hymie Gorden Memorial Lecture

 "Academia, Advocacy, & Ethics" (1999)
 Robert George,  PhD, JD, Cyrus T. McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
 Princeton University

John M. Dolan, PhD, University of Minnesota
"Biomedical Ethics for the Physician in Training" (2000)

Steven E Calvin, MD, University of Minnesota
"Is the Economy the Patient? Prenatal Diagnosis under Cost/Benefit Analysis" (2000)
 
Steven E Calvin, MD
Ethical Challenges of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Practice in the United States
International Forum on Medical Ethics - Tokyo, Japan, 2000
For the text of Dr. Calvin's presentation, Click Here

Dan Taylor, PhD, Bethel College
"The Healing Power of Stories: The Importance of Story in the Medical Relationship" (2001)

Philip J. Regal, PhD, University of Minnesota
"Genetic Engineering: Revising the Foundations of Ethics?" (2001)

Joel Albers, PharmD, PhD, West Bank Pharmacy and Information Center
"AIDS, Drugs and Africa: Patent Rights or Patients' Rights?" (2001)

Robert O. Fisch, MD, University of Minnesota
"Medical Ethics: What Can We Learn from the Past?" (2001)

Mark B. Rotenberg, General Counsel, University of Minnesota
"The Ziagen AIDS Drug License: University Commitments and Constraints" (2001)

Douglas Yee, MD, DeAnn Lazovich, PhD
"Hormones, Induced Abortion, and Breast Cancer Etiology" (2001)

Franz Halberg, MD, Germaine Cornelissen, PhD, Kirk C. Allison, PhD, University of Minnesota
"Chronomics becomes Chronobiological Ethics in Serious Vascular Disease Prevention and Cancer Treatment" (2001)

Joel Brind, PhD, Baruch College, CUNY
"The Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer: Evidence and Methodology" (2001)

Kathi Antolak, MD, Center for Victims of Torture
"Refugees/Immigrants: Unrecognized Sequelae of Torture Affect the Health of Many" (2001)

Hedi Fried, Auschwitz survivor & Clinical Psychologist, Stockholm, Sweden
"Mental Health Issues of Aging Holocaust Survivors and the 2nd Generation" (2001)

Jill Leighton, Cofounder, Escape: The Prostitution Prevention Project
"A Patient Not 'Seen': Prostitution, Coercion and Medical Awareness" (2001)

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Ph.D., University of Chicago
"Cloning and the Challenge to Human Dignity" (2002)

Steven E. Calvin, MD, University of Minnesota; Ron Hoekstra, MD, Children's Hospital
"Perinatal Care at the Limits of Viability: Medical and Ethical Issues" (2003)

David Mitchell, PhD, Sharon Snyder, PhD, University of Illinois-Chicago
"A World without Bodies" (2003)

John A. Nyman, PhD, University of Minnesota; Respondent: Bryan E. Dowd, PhD, University of Minnesota
"Health Insurance Demand and ... 'The Case of the Missing Welfare Gain': A New Theory and its Implications for Policy and Access" (2003)

Edwin Black
"War on the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race" (2003)

Human Rights and Public Health Lecture Series (2003)

• James Dorsey, JD, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
  "Foundations and History of International Human Rights and Nexus with Public Health"

• Paul E. Terry, PhD, Park Nicollet Institute
  "Doing Public Health in Human Rights Compromised Political Contexts"

• Gordon Dodge, PhD, LP, Lakes Area Human Services 
  "Psycho-Social Recovery following Human Rights Mass Casualty Events - from the Balkans to New York City"

• Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota
  "Human Rights, Civil Liberties and Public Health: Public Health in an Age of Terrorism - A Framework"

Gilbert Meilaender, PhD, Valparaiso University; Respondent: Carol Trauer, PhD, University of Minnesota
"The (Moral) Trouble with Embryo Research" (2004)

Ervin Staub, PhD, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"Preventing Renewed Violence: Healing, Reconcilliation and Forgiveness after Genocide, Mass Killing, and Intractable Conflict" (2004)

Carol Poore, PhD, Brown University
"Lessons from the Past: A Look at Some Current Bio-Cultural Debates in the United States" (2004)

Joel Albers, PharmD, PhD, Minnesota Health Care Action Network
"Solving the Health Care Crisis in Minnesota: Evaluating Models of Universal Health Care" (2004)

Leonard Rubenstein, JD, Physicians for Human Rights
"Promoting Health by Protecting Human Rights" (2004)

Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD, Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future, Chicago-Kent College of Law
"Is Medicine Still a Profession" (2005)

Philip J. Regal, University of Minnesota
"The Kept University? Corporatization, Ethics and the Re-engineering of Academic Freedom" (2005)

Jack El-Hai, June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism
"Monstor or Maverick? Walter Freeman, Lobotomy, and the Rights of Psychosurgery Patients" (2005)

James F. Hart, MD,  University of Minnesota
"Medical and Moral Reflections on Disaster Care in Louisiana" (2005)