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Bernard Gert, Morality, and Bioethics Conference
at Dartmouth College
2009


Friday, April 3, 2009

Gramlich 2009Annual Francis W. Gramlich Memorial Lecture

  • Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University
  • Unjust Social Rules: Killing and Causing Pain
  • 4:00 pm
  • 41 Haldeman Hall, Dartmouth College
  • Free & Open to the Public, Reception to Follow


Saturday, April 4, 2009

7:30AM Coffee
8:00    Tom Beauchamp, Georgetown University, From Morality to the Common Morality
8:45    Thomas Pogge, Yale University, Morality: What do We Share -- and Who are We, Anyway?
9:30    Break
9:45    Rosamond Rhodes, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Medical Ethics: UnCommon Morality
10:30   Ronald M. Green, Dartmouth College, Rationality Redux
11:15   Break
11:30   Dan Callahan, Hastings Center, Health Care Reform as a Vexing Challenge for Applied Ethics
12:15   Lunch
1:15    Loretta Kopelman, Brody School of Medicine, Gravely Ill Patients Without Advance Directives: Social Consensus or Best Interests Standard
2:00    Robert Steiner, UCSD School of Medicine, First of all, Do Harm Ethically: The Gert-Steiner Recommendations for Living Kidney Donor Selection
2:45    Break
3:00    Donald Marquis, University of Kansas, Bernie on Abortion
3:45    James Bernat, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Determining Death
4:30    Break
4:45    Etta Pisano, UNC School of Medicine, Taking Hospital Ethics Committees Seriously

5:30    Gert Reception (Location: Hinman Forum, Rockefeller Center)

7:00    Dinner, Hanover Inn

Sunday, April 5, 2009
8:30    Breakfast, Courtyard Marriott, Informal Replies to Speakers

Conference Co-Sponsored by:
The Philosophy Department, Bernard Gert, Office of the Dean of the Faculty, DHMC Clinical Ethics Program, and the Ethics Institute

Last Updated: 4/1/09