Caplan Discusses Ghosts of Bioethics' Present, Past and Future

Our friend Summer McGee at bioethics.net passes this along.

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On Point of Inquiry, Art Caplan discusses how bioethics has "come of age" and what questions are likely to engage the field in the future. The interview with Chris Mooney is one not to miss.

For more click here.

Eat Your Heart Out Aristotle

Greetings!

BK Christopher and I are working and playing hard as we plan the retirement celebration for Rosemary Flanigan to be held October 19th from 6 to 8 pm at the Kansas City Downtown Library.

We chose a philosophical theme (Eat Your Heart Out, Aristotle!) in honor of Rosemary's teaching years and her raucous style of approaching health care ethics!

Please join the Center Staff, Rosemary's family, friends, past students and groupies to recognize her retirement and the Flanigan Chair, named in her honor. We promise an evening of fun, food, drinks and memories. Music will be provided by Kansas City's own Jazz For Good quartet.

Assist us in rolling out the red carpet for one of the most adored in Kansas City, Sister Rosemary Flanigan. Eat your heart out, Aristotle. Maybe drink a bit, too!

See you Octber 19!

Helen Emmott

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Register and pay online by clicking here.

Bummer! You cannot attend what promises to be a raucous event. Please make a contribution by clicking here.

Please send your “words of wisdom” to be included in the Memory Book we are preparing for Rosemary. Just send to Donna Blackwood at dblackwood@practicalbioethics.org or Center for Practical Bioethics, Harzfeld Building, 1111 Main, Suite 500, Kansas City, MO 64105

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Is it ethical to live forever?

Glenn McGee, PhD

Francis Chair in Bioethics

February 19, 2010

10 minutes 12 seconds

Is it ethical for individuals, or for society generally, to take advantage of technologies that will change our entire notion of what it means to age? Is it okay to want to live forever?

Those are the questions to be addressed by Doctor Glenn McGee, the Francis Chair at the Center for Practical Bioethics, during a lecture February 24 in Kansas City. Dr. McGee talks about the concept during Health Talk on KMBZ Radio in Kansas City.

Link: Podcast, Is it ethical to want to live forever?