In 1981, under the auspices of the MacLean Center, Mark Siegler and Richard Epstein organized a yearlong interdisciplinary seminar series on Bad Outcomes after Medical Intervention. The success of that initial seminar program demonstrated that there was great interest at the University of Chicago in creating a sustainable interdisciplinary forum to discuss health-related subjects with colleagues from across campus. Since 1981, the MacLean Center has sponsored an annual seminar series that has examined the ethical aspects of one key health related issue each year. Previous topics have included: Organ Transplantation, Pediatric Ethics, End-of-Life Care, Global Health, Health Care Disparities, Medical Professionalism, Confidentiality, Pharmaceutical Innovation and Regulation, and Neuroethics. The topic for 2024 - 2025 is "Advocacy in Healthcare and Medicine."
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AT THE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Each year the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics has hosted a conference devoted to furthering scholarship in the broad field of clinical ethics to benefit patient care. This year, we solicited abstracts addressing the wide range of clinical ethics topics including: the doctor- patient relationship, informed consent, clinical ethics consultation, reducing disparities in health care, surgical ethics, pediatric ethics, managing scare resources, and the role of clinical ethics in society. The program highlighted not only empirical studies but also analytical examinations of controversies in how health care is delivered in contemporary society.