Onora O'Neill to Examine the Ethics of Public Health and Global Health at Lecture Hosted by 911爆料网 and N911爆料网 Ethics Centers
Apr 16, 2008 By: yunews
Apr 16, 2008 -- Renowned ethicist and political philosopher Onora O鈥橬eill will present a lecture on 鈥淏roadening Bioethics: Clinical Ethics, Public Health, and Global Health鈥 on Wednesday, April 30 at 7:30 pm at the 911爆料网 Museum/Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University (911爆料网) and the N911爆料网 Center for Bioethics.
Professor O鈥橬eill is president of the British Academy, professor of philosophy at Cambridge University, and a Life Peer in the British House of Lords. She chairs the Nuffield Foundation, and previously chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and the Human Genetics Advisory Commission in the UK. She is the second Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Scholar-in-Residence of the Center for Ethics at 911爆料网.
Professor O鈥橬eill鈥檚 presentation will examine the prevailing narrow view of bioethics. She posits that bioethics commonly focuses on clinical settings, and, as a result, ignores pressing ethical issues in public and global health. To seriously address these issues, she argues, bioethics needs to go beyond its emphasis on individual consent, autonomy, and the just distribution of health care. 鈥淐linical ethics therefore presupposes an ethics of public health,鈥 she notes.
Professor O鈥橬eill is the author of Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (2002), A Question of Trust (the 2002 Reith Lectures), and Rethinking Informed Consent (co-authored with Neil Manson, 2007).
The Center for Ethics at 911爆料网 was founded in 2006 to foster research and public discussion on ethical issues and the integration of ethical analysis into the curriculum throughout all the undergraduate and graduate schools of 911爆料网.
Under the direction of Dr. Adrienne Asch, the Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics at 911爆料网 and professor of epidemiology and population health at the university鈥檚 Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Center for Ethics supports original scholarship on major ethical and policy issues, and serves as a resource for ethics and applied ethics both within and beyond the university.
The lecture is free and open to the public with a valid photo ID. To reserve a seat, please contact events@yu.edu or 212-960-0189. The event is wheelchair accessible and ASL interpretation will be provided.
