American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 2013 Conference

At the end of the break week, I was able to attend the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. This is a conference I always eagerly look forward to going to. Just to give you a flavor of the scope of material the conference covers, here are the sessions I attended:

• Delivering Research Ethics Education: Strategies for Training Community Research Partner
• The Moral Courage of Paracelsus: Medical, Religious, and Social Refor
• Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Bioenhancement
• A Tribute to Edmund Pellegrino and His Work 
• Student Paper Award Selections
•      Bioethics, Human Rights, and Maternal Mortality
•      More than Informed Consent: Why Research Ethics Needs Religion
•      Toward a More Patient-Centered Advance Directive for Surgical Patients
• A Conversation with Amy Gutmann, Chair, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
• Student-Led Research Review Panel: An Alternative to IRB Review of Medical Student Projects
• IRBs in Existential Crisis: Proposals for Evaluating the Efficacy of IRB Oversigh
• How to Get Fired in Bioethics: A User’s Guide to Succes
• Difference, Representation, and Inclusion in Bioethics and Humanitie
• Thinking Through the Ethics of Pregnancy Reduction
• The Best-Laid Schemes: Do Bioethicists Corrupt Public Policy
• Climate Change: A Neglected Topic in Bioethic
• Ethical Issues Surrounding the Use of Social Media Platforms in Disease Surveillance and Epidemiological Researc
• Gun Control, Ethics, and Public Health
• Disability Gai
• Has Bioethics Undermined Medical Ethics
• Legal Update 2013: Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethic
• A Seat at the Table or a Voice in the Void: A Pilot Study of the Factors That Shape Community Members’ Roles on Research Review Board
• Pay-to-Participate Research: A Worthwhile Innovation
• Subversive Subjects: Rule-Breaking and Deception in Clinical Trial
• From Unification, Registration: The Genesis of Research Subject Registrie
• Randomized Clinical Trials in Maternal-Fetal Surgery: Who Is the Patient and Why It Matter
• Exploiting Altruism in Human Subjects Research