Program in Medicine & Human Values
The Program in Medicine & Human Values at California Pacific Medical Center provides medical ethics consultation for professionals and families, a variety of sponsored continuing education activities for practicing health care professionals, resources through our special library collection, research, and regional ethics resources.
Program News & Events
Check out our Video Library beginning with the "Birth of Medical Ethics."
Annual Summer Workshop in Clinical Ethics: Belmont to the Bedside: Translating the Principles of Ethics to the Practice of Medicine
Saturday 8 June 2013 See the program and registration information.
Watch Dr. Jonsen deliver the 1st Annual Sherwin B. Nuland Lecture for the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics on October 17, 2012.
Thomasine Kushner honored by UCLan
University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom, awards the Program's Senior Bioethicist Dr. Thomasine Kushner an honorary fellowship for her contributions to the field. Click here to read the announcement.
Bioethics Currents
Current issues in biomedical ethics from around the world.
-
American Cancer Society, 22 March 2013
Studies Examine Doctor-Patient Communication about End-of-life Care
Opens new window -
Salon, 21 March 2013
Report: Contraception is good for the economy, everything else
Opens new window -
NanoWerk, 20 Macrh 2013
Nanotechnology wonder material (no, it's not graphene) to tackle environmental challenges
Opens new window -
Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, 19 March 2013
Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research
Opens new window -
Neurology, 13 March 2013
Pediatric neuroenhancement
Opens new window
