Program Events

 Tuesday, March 27
(Noon-1:15 pm, Mayo (Atrium) 3-125)

African-American Seniors' Perspectives on Advance Care Planning:
A Virtue Ethics Community-Based Approach

Saundra Crump, MS, RN, PhD
 Minnesota Hartford Geriatric Nursing Education Scholar

Pizza at noon; introductions at 12:10

Webcast via UMConnect
URL: https://umconnect.umn.edu/humanrights
(Join via Guest box; ask a question via Chat box)

Sponsored by the Program in Human Rights and Health
Cosponsors: Department of African American and African Studies
Minnesota Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence
Institute for Diversity, Equity and Advocacy (IDEA)
Center on Aging (School of Public Health)
Center for Bioethics
peppersoup.org

Free & Open to the Public

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Tuesday, March 27 (7-9 pm, William Mitchel College of Law)
875 Summit Ave, St. Paul

Symposium

Ending Violence Against Women:
From the Local to the Global

Presenters:

Cheryl Thomas, JD (Director, Women's Human Rights Program, Advocates for Human Rights) - Global Programs to Enhance Women's Safety & Security

Nadia Costa, JD, (CA firm of Miller, Starr, Regalia) - pro bono attorney in Deborah Peagler battered spouse conviction plea case - New Legislation to Protect Battered Women

Suzanne Koepplinger (Executive Director, Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center) - Crisis of Violence Against Native Women & Girls in Minnesota

General admission is $10 - 2 Elimination of Bias CLE credits for lawyers, $25.

No registration necessary

Sponsored by World Without Genocide, William Mitchell College of Law
Cosponsored by Human Rights Program & Program in Human Rights and Health

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 Thursday, March 29
(4:00-5:30 pm, Mayo (Atrium) 3-125)

Annual Faith and Bioethics Lecture

Three Faces of Personhood:
The Responsibilities of the Medical Profession within the Political and Judicial Framework

Father Robert Spitzer, SJ, PhD
Executive Director, Magis Institute
Former President, Gonzaga University

Sponsored by MacLaurin Institute / CSF
Cosponsored by Program in Human Rights and Health
 

PHRH Web and Podcasts

African-American Seniors' Perspectives on Advance Care Planning:
A Virtue Ethics Community-Based Approach
Saundra Crump, RN, MSN, PhD
Minnesota Hartford Geriatric Nursing Education Scholar (3/27/12)
Principal, BioEthical Solutions, Inc.

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Famine Relief, Prevention and Remittances for the Horn of Africa
Mohamed Idris, MA
Executive Director, American Relief Agency for the Horn of Africa (2/28/12)

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Most Neglected Among Stigmatizing Tropical Diseases?
Podoconiosis (non-filarial elephantaisis):
A Hidden Disease Leading to Hiddenness
Sara Tomczyk, RN
International Orthodox Christian Charities (5/3/2011)
Public Health Lecturer, Addis Ababa School of Nursing
TOMS Shoes Podoconiosis Initiative Health Project Manager

www.podo.org,  Article

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Cultural Beliefs and Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Namibia
Elizabeth Lightfoot, PhD, MSW
University of Minnesota School of Social Work (4/11/11)

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The Gifts of the Body: Organ Procurement for Transplantation
Gilbert Meilaender, PhD
Valparaiso University &
former member of President's Council on Bioethics (11/11/10)
Download, Instaplay

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Differing Impacts of Disability on Earnings in China and the USA:
A Policy Effect?
Samuel L Myers, Jr, PhD
Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice
University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (9/20/10)

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A Public Health Journal: Human Rights and Health Care
Ed Ehlinger, MD; Kirk Allison, PhD, MS (7/21/10)

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The Philosophy of Abortion - A Debate 
Prof. Peter Kreeft, Boston College Department of Philosophy
Prof. David Boonin, University of Colorado Department of Philosophy
(4/30/2010)

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Treatment Behind Bars? Evidence-based Treatment
For Addiction in Correctional Settings: Access, Ethics and Human Rights
R. Douglas Bruce, MD, MS, MSc
Yale University Center for Clinical Investigation (4/5/2010)

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Public Interest, Public Health, and Political Hubris:
The Making of Tobacco Litigation and United States v. Philip Morris
Sharon Eubanks, JD
Ms. Eubanks is the former U.S. Justice Department case attorney
(SPH Gaylord Anderson Memorial Lecture, 2/19/2010)

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Forgotten No More!
International Human Rights Advocacy for Persons with Mental Disabilities
and the new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Eric Rosenthal, JD
Executive Director, Mental Disability Rights International (4/17/2009)

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Darfur! Responding to a Public Health Disaster
Ashis Brahma, MD
Phoenix Global Humanitarian Foundation (2/11/2009)

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Genocide, 'Ethnic Cleansing' & Cloaks of Invisibility
Gregory Stanton, PhD
Executive Director, Genocide Watch &
James Farr Professor of Human Rights, University of Mary Washington (11/19/2008)

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Bioethics and Moral Pluralism
H. Tristram Engelhardt, MD, PhD
  Rice University Department of Philosophy,
Mary Faith Marshall, PhD
U of M Center for Medical Humanities and the Arts, Center for Bioethics (4/3/2008)

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From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine and Back (Spring 2008)
Medical Apartheid - Harriet Washington (2/28/2008)
Putting Faces to a Faceless Crime: Profiles of Nazi Euthanasia Victims
Patricia Heberer, PhD, US Holocaust Memorial Museum (4/13/2008)
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics
Hans-Walter Schmuhl, PhD, University of Bielefeld (3/27/2008)
Race and Eugenics: Minnesota and the University of Minnesota
Mark Soderstrom, PhD, State University of New York (4/17/2008)
On Surviving Medical Atrocity: Testimony of a Survivor
Margot DeWilde (4/24/2008)

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Human Rights, the Burden of Disease, and Internatonal Tobacco Control
Public Health Roundtable (4/27/2007)
John Finnegan & Harry Lando, Carolyn Dressler, Benjamin Mason Meier
Kirk Allison, Doug Blanke, Patricia Lambert

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The Body on Display: Controversies and Conversations
Boundaries and Bodies: Cultural and Religious Perspectives
Kirk Allison, Linda Schulte-Sasse,  Lucia M Tanassi,
Terry Nichols, Margaret P Moss, Mary Faith Marshall (7/6/2006)