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 —  Lunch with Margaret Mohrmann


Bioethics for Babies:
The Decisions Others Make for Them
Discussion Lunch with Biomedical Ethicist
Margaret Mohrmann of the University of Virginia

Friday, April 17, 2009 * 12:30-2 p.m. * Harlos House (1331 E. Tenth St.) * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Biomedical Ethicist Margaret Mohrmann How do doctors determine what is in the "best interest" of a patient who is too young to decide for him- or herself? How do parents, nurses, counselors, and other caregivers make sensible and sensitive decisions about a terminally or very ill child? What are the questions that need to be asked? The things that need to be considered? Whether you are planning a career in medicine, hoping to be a parent, have a religious calling, or are otherwise concerned about the life and death decisions that you and others may some day need to make, we hope you will join us for Friday's discussion lunch with Margaret Mohrmann, Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Pediatrics and Medical Education, and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.

An award-winning teacher, Margaret Mohrmann holds joint appointments in the University of Virginia's School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences. She is the director of the Program of Biomedical Ethics and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanity. In the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Mohrmann teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Religious Studies on the history of Christian ethics and feminist thought. Among her several books are Medicine as Ministry: Reflections on Suffering, Ethics, and Hope and Attending Children: A Doctor's Education. She is also the narrator of the video "The Way We Die: Listening to the Terminally Ill," which is used in college courses about death and for hospice and AIDS support groups.

On Thursday, April 16, at 4 p.m. in Jordan 124, Professor Mohrmann will deliver this year's Vandivier Sims Memorial Lecture, "Bioethics for Babies: Are There Guides for the Perplexed?" The lectureship was established in 2002 to honor the memory of Matthew Vandivier Sims, who died in infancy. The Thursday lecture is free and open to public.

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