For its inaugural event, the Religion and Ethics Workshop is proud to announce Daniel Sulmasy,  Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics in the Department of Medicine and Divinity School; Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in the Department of Medicine, will present his recent work as a member of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.  The Commission’s report, entitled “Ethically Impossible: STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 t0 1948”,  was an investigation into the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) studies conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s.  The PHS research involved intentionally exposing and infecting vulnerable populations to sexually transmitted diseases without the subjects’ consent.  The Commission addresses many of the moral issues raised by this type of research.  Dr Sulmasy will discuss some of these issues, in particular, he will concentrate his discussion on the ethics of retrospective judgments of individual culpability.  Daniel Brudney, Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the College, and Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School, will offer brief responses after which we will open the floor for questions and discussion.  After the event the Ethics Club will be hosting a pub night at The Pub in Ida Noyes.  Hope to see you all there!

When and Where: Monday, October 3rd from 6:30-7:30pm, in the Third Floor Lecture Hall at Swift Hall