Phillips Family Award in Ethics

Congratulations to Ben Campbell - 2009 Phillips Prize Winner

Ben's award-winning essay is titled Informed Consent in Developing Countries: Myth or Reality?

Ben is currently in Geneva, beginning his summer internship at the WHO. His project focuses on the supply and access of children's medicines in the informal sector in East Africa. His previous research in this area had been with Professor Sienna Craig (anthropology), looking at pharma from a socio-cultural perspective. He hopes that his internship will give him a much more holistic view of the issues surrounding drug supply, distribution, and use.

Ben Campbell is pictured at left with a friend in the Dominican Republic.

Guidelines

The Phillips Family Award in Ethics is presented annually to an undergraduate student from Dartmouth College who has successfully demonstrated strength and interest in applied and professional ethics. Work may be in specific areas, such as medical or legal ethics, or in the broader arena of ethics applied to public life. A $250 prize is awarded to the winning paper.

The prize was established in 1990 by Gerald Phillips ('47), (Tuck '47) and Howard Phillips ('51), (Tuck '52) to honor their parents and by Stacy Phillips ('80) to honor her grandparents, Helen and Louis Phillips.

• Essays/papers or projects must be completed during the current year (Spring '08 term through the Spring '09 term).
• Deadline for submission is Friday, May 8, 2009.
• Essays/papers or projects may be submitted independent of a specific course or faculty member.
• Papers or projects reports must be typed, double-spaced, with all citations and references clearly noted.
• Maximum page length (12 point font): 20 pages. No minimum length.
• Include a brief cover letter with submission that includes your name, year, major, telephone number, how, where and when we may contact you, and any other relevant information (i.e., your particular interests in applied and professional ethics, previous related work experiences and courses, etc.)
• No name or identifying references (i.e. professor or author's name) may appear on the title page or anywhere in the paper. Submissions will be judged anonymously, by a committee appointed by the Faculty Advisory Board of the Ethics Institute. Our office will put a numerical code on your paper.
• The winning essay/paper or project report may be reproduced, in whole or in part, on the Ethics Institute’s website. Submission of a paper gives permission for it to appear in the Ethics Institute news brochure News Update.

Submit Papers To:

Aine Donovan
Ethics Institute
6031 Haldeman Center, Room 254
(603) 646-1263

• 2009 Graduate Winner

Questions or inquiries, e-mail ethics.institute@Dartmouth.edu