Hutton Honors College

Discussion Lunch with
Legal and Medical Ethics Scholar Rebecca Dresser

Fri., March 2, 2007 * 12:30-2 p.m. * Harlos House, 1331 E. Tenth St. * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Rebecca Susan Dresser, the Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, is a graduate of Indiana University, with an undergraduate degree in psychology and sociology and a master’s in education. She received her J.D. from Harvard University and has had a distinguished career as a scholar of law and bioethics. Her expertise includes many topics that are frequently contested, including stem cell research, biotechnologies, end-of-life care, dementia, assisted reproduction, assisted suicide, animal rights, animal research, and patient advocacy. She has served since 2002 on the President’s Council on Bioethics, which advises the President on ethical issues related to biomedical innovation. She has an extensive list of publications, which includes When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics and The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choices. Co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program.

Rebecca Dresser is on campus at IUB to give a public lecture for the Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial Lecture: Thursday, March 1; Rawles Hall 100; 4-5:30 p.m. The lecture is titled, "Terry Schiavo and Contemporary Myths about Dying," and is free and open to all.

The Matthew Vandivier Sims Memorial Lecture honors Matthew, who died in infancy. The annual lecture focuses on issues in bioethics or in improving communication among family, medical staff and caregivers who are in difficult medical situations. It is sponsored by Matthew’s famiy and friends and the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions.

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