Ethics Grand Rounds
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This collection contains Grand Rounds material (videos, presentation slides, or handouts) submitted to the Library from the Ethics Program. This collection also contains material from the annual Daniel W. Foster, M.D., Visiting Lectureship in Medical Ethics.
The annual Daniel W. Foster, M.D., Visiting Lectureship in Medical Ethics brings distinguished scholars in medical ethics to the UT Southwestern Medical Center campus to present and discuss the challenging moral issues in biomedicine. Established in 2007 in honor of UT Southwestern’s Daniel W. Foster, the Lectureship also offers opportunities for faculty, staff, and trainees to discuss medical ethics in an intimate setting.
All lectures are held on the second Tuesday of every month in the academic year (September – May) from 12 noon to 1 p.m. For more information, contact Ruth Vinciguerra.
Unless otherwise noted, videos and presentation slides are publicly-accessible.
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Recent Submissions
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State policy responses to substance use in pregnancy and mother-infant outcomes
(2023-05-09)The opioid crisis has had a substantial effect on pregnant women, with the number of pregnant women with an opioid use disorder diagnosis at delivery quadrupling from 1999 to 2014, and the incidence of neonatal opioid ... -
Structural competency: new frameworks to understand and respond to inequities in health
(2023-04-11)Research on disparities in health and in medical care demonstrates that social, economic, and political inequities are key drivers of poor health outcomes. The influence of such inequities on health has long been noted by ... -
Ethics in academia and the pharmaceutical industry
(2023-03-14)[Note: The slide presentation is not available from this event.] Many academics in medicine assume that they hold a higher ethical standard than the pharmaceutical industry. Some of this assumption has to do with the ... -
Addressing privacy challenges in healthcare through the lens of contextual integrity
(2023-02-14)[Note: The slide presentation is not available from this event.] In healthcare, as in other social spheres, digital technology has posed dire challenges to entrenched approaches to privacy. Yet, as a fundamental cornerstone ... -
Exploring the untapped nexus of ethics and health facility design
(2023-01-10)Architecture inherently reflects the normative preferences of its time. This certainly applies to healthcare architecture, where design concepts have intentional and decades-long effects on patients, families, and staff. ... -
The short history and tenuous future of "professionalism"
(2022-12-13)[Note: The slide presentation is not available from this event.] The concept of professionalism in health care is both newer and more fragile than many assume. The history, strengths, risks, and alternatives to professionalism ... -
Deep brain stimulation enhances control and restores valued personality characteristics
(2022-11-08)Questions related to what constitutes personality, and how those conceptualizations interface with notions of self, identity, and autonomy, have fascinated psychologists, philosophers, and ethicists for hundreds of years. ... -
An argument for a liberal public health: reflections on a discipline in flux after COVID-19 (The Daniel W. Foster, M.D., Visiting Lectureship in Medical Ethics)
(2022-10-11)Health has been in the spotlight in an unprecedented fashion during the COVID-19 pandemic. While there is no question that much that was done during the pandemic saved lives, it is also the case that the pandemic should ... -
UT Southwestern Medical Center Ethics Grand Rounds - 2022/2023
(2022)This document lists the schedule of Ethics Grand Rounds events for September 2022 through May 2023. -
Ethical issues at the end of life in Catholic bioethics
(2022-09-13)Since over 20% of Americans are Catholic, and 1 in 7 patients in the U.S. is admitted to a Catholic hospital, Catholic moral theology has a significant impact on medical decisions at the end of life. In this talk, Dr. ... -
Ethical quandaries of direct-to-consumer neurotechnology
(2022-05-10)The direct-to-consumer (DTC) neurotechnology market, which includes brain computer interfaces (BCI), non-invasive neurostimulation devices, virtual reality systems (VR), wearables, and certain smartphone apps, is rapidly ... -
Medical decision making, ethics, and behavioral economics
(2022-04-12)Bioethicists have long argued for rational persuasion to help patients with their medical decisions. But the findings of behavioral economics – popularized in Thaler and Sunstein's Nudge and other books – show that arguments ... -
Ethics large and small: moral considerations in response to childhood obesity
(2022-03-08)Obesity in the U.S. has been described as an epidemic, and in response to such rhetoric, individuals, healthcare providers, public health officials, even state legislatures, and courts have proposed initiatives or enacted ... -
Putting the demos in democratic deliberation: the search for public opinion about the ethical use of biospecimens [a meditation in three acts]
(2022-02-08)The creation of sustainable and ethical policies in health care and the life sciences requires soliciting and incorporating the attitudes and opinions of the "public," a difficult task that is even more challenging in a ... -
Ethical use of surrogate measures in accelerated approval: aducanumab and beyond
(2022-01-11)[Note: The slide presentation is not available from this event.] The accelerated approval pathway was designed in the wake of the HIV epidemic to provide a pathway for drugs to reach the market based on showing changes to ... -
UT Southwestern Medical Center Ethics Grand Rounds - 2021/2022
(2021)This document lists the schedule of Ethics Grand Rounds events for September 2021 through May 2022. -
Undocumented patients and physicians: how did we get here? where are we going?
(2021-12-14)This session will trace the current clinical ethical challenges involving patients who are undocumented immigrants to features of U.S. immigration policy. We will examine the role of physicians and health care professionals ... -
Race and ethics in the design of biomedical technologies: the pulse oximeter as a case in point (The Daniel W. Foster, M.D., Visiting Lectureship in Medical Ethics)
(2021-11-09)There were clear indications from studies done in 2005 and 2007 that pulse oximeters overestimate arterial oxygen saturation during hypoxia in dark-skinned individuals. And yet, years later, the device remains essentially ... -
Ethics education in the health professions: designing for learning that lasts
(2021-10-12)This presentation provides a conceptual framework for course, continuing professional education and curricular design in ethics education for health professionals. The emphasis will be on teaching for deep understanding ... -
(SYN) biology without borders: understanding the complexities and power of life?
(2021-09-14)One of the many pressing issues the global community will confront in the next decade is whether the arsenal of biotechnologies should be deployed for conservation and environmental protection, or whether they are anathema ...
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