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Bioethics seminars, 2008

Lectures scheduled for 2008. Includes talks sponsored by the Rock Ethics Institute and partly supported by the Huck Institutes.
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Thu Jan 24 at 07:00PM Brian Fagan (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Who owns the past? An archaeologist looks at stakeholders, tourism, and cultural heritage
The Nittany Lion Inn, Ballroom C
Thu Feb 21 at 04:00PM Janet Chernela (University of Maryland)
Keeping time: genes, wives, and history in Yanomami blood collections and the debates about them
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building
Thu Mar 06 at 04:00PM Gisli Palsson (University of Iceland)
Biosocial relations of production: The bio-graphies of body parts
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building
Thu Mar 20 at 04:00PM Marc Feldman (Stanford University)
The meaning of modern human genetic variation
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building/ CG624F, Hershey
Thu Apr 03 at 07:00PM Maeve Leakey (Stony Brook University and National Geographic Society)
Who owns the bones? Pondering the ethical issues surrounding the recovery and display of ancient human remains
The Nittany Lion Inn, Ballroom C
Thu Apr 24 at 04:00PM Robert Proctor (Stanford University)
The secular sacred in archaeological preservation ethics: academic enclosures, chimpanzee artifacts, and conflicting epistemologies of loot
Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building
Mon Sep 22 at 03:00PM Nancy Olivieri (University of Toronto)
Privilege, power, and pharmaceuticals: medical research in a new era
Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library
Mon Oct 13 at 09:30AM David Himmelstein (Harvard Medical School )
Complicated problems, simple solutions: policy research and the health care mess
102 Weaver Building
Mon Oct 13 at 03:00PM David Himmelstein (Harvard Medical School)
Sham health care reforms: the ethics of health policy placebos
Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library
Mon Oct 13 at 07:00PM David Himmelstein, Chuck Pennacchio and Jonathan Marks
Universal health care in action—a thought experiment
Outreach Building, Innovation Park
Thu Nov 06 at 03:00PM Allen Hornblum and Edward "Yusef" Anthony
Cheap and available: the American medical and pharmaceutical community’s love affair with prison inmates
Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library
Wed Dec 03 at 03:00PM Rebecca Kukla (University of South Florida)
The transformation of women's health care into reproductive medicine: a cautionary tale
Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library