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The
Division of Medical Ethics mounts several Medical Ethics Forums
each academic term to explore a range of contemporary issues at the
interesection of medicine, ethics and society. The forums bring together
diverse groups of experts for discussion and debate. Recent programs
have looked at The Stem Cell Debate: Ethics and Science in the Political
Arena; Death, Organ Donation and Public Perceptions; and Making Life-Saving
Drugs Available in the Developing World
The George W.
Gay Lectures are the oldest endowed lectureship at Harvard Medical
School. Established in 1917, they are quite possibly the oldest medical
ethics lectureship in the United States. Quite remarkable physicians,
scholars and scientists have presented the lectures. Recent Gay Lecturers
have been Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1995), Sissela Bok (1996), Daniel
Callahan (1997), Daniel Federman (1998), and Elie Wiesel (1999) and
Dame Cicely Saunders (2001).
The Lawrence
Lader Lecture on Family Planning and Reproductive Rights
is a new lectureship instituted in 1997. In 1997, the initial lecture
was given by Fay Wattleton, who led Planned Parenthood from 1978 to
1992
The John McGovern
Lecture in the History of Medicine brings to the University renowned
scholars to address critical issues in the history of medicine. In 2000,
Kenneth Ludmerer, MD. Washington University addressed The Coming of
the Second Revolution in Medical Education and in 2001 Evelyn Hammonds,
PhD, MIT, spoke on The Logic of Difference: Race, Gender and 19th Century
Surgery.
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Dame Cicely Saunders
and Eric Krakauer at the George W. Gay Lecture, May, 2001
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