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Graduate Symposiums

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Spring 2022

2021 Bioethics Graduate Student Symposium
2019 Bioethics Graduate Student Symposium
Scales of justice with DNA center

Graduate Symposium 

Fall 2022

Hannah Chaddha

Hannah Chaddha

Psilocybin Decriminalization and Legalization

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Leo Mendoza

Leo Mendoza

Global Bioethics and Indigenous Peoples

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Carrie Kohler

Carrie Kohler

Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Abortion

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2022 Bioethics Graduate Symposium

2022 Symposium

The Bioethics Institute hosted second-year students for their annual Bioethics Symposium.
To read student papers, please see below.

Brianna Feld
Larenza Elbert

Brianna Feld
Genetic Modification: An Expansion of Biotechnology & Bioethics Encoded in Human Dignity

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Larenza Elbert
On the Ethics of Withdrawing and Withholding Treatment
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Christopher Iloha
Ava Lekander

Fr. Christopher Iloha 
Laudato Si: The Human Roots of the Ecological Crisis
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Ava Lekander 
Why Forced Cesareans are Never Ethically Appropriate 
Marie's Paper.
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to read Ava's paper.

Martha Amador

Martha Amador
Bioethical Implications of Access to Healthcare for People with Disabilities
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Flavius Rusu

Flavius Rusu
A Reflection on Leon Kass and the Problems of Technology 
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2021 Bioethics Graduate Symposium

2021 Symposium

The Bioethics Institute hosted second-year students for their annual Bioethics Symposium.
To read student papers, please see below.

Nubia Valenzuela

Nubia Valenzuela

Human Germline Genetic Enhancement: An Ethical Assessment 

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Father Ikechukwu Ikeocha

Fr. Ikechukwu Ikeocha

Pain at the End of Life

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Alan Flores
Anne-Marie Zamora

Alan Flores

The Compatibility Between Physician-Assisted Suicide and an Internal Morality of Medicine 

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Ann-Marie Zamora
Psychedelics in the Hospice Care Toolkit: A Bioethical Review 
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Brooke Vines

Brooke Vines

IVF Is Not Legally Supported 

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Desirae Gordon

Desirae Gordon

The Right to Abortion

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2019 Symposium

2019 Graduate
Symposium

The Bioethics Institute hosted second-year students
for their annual Bioethics Symposium.
To read student papers, please see below.
second-year students

Lynn Kessler

Parenting from the Grave:

Postmortem Fertilization and the

Medicalization of Grief

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Shanice McLeish

Racial Disparities and the Duty to Care:

Effects on Obstetric Outcomes

of Pregnant Black Women

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David Urtecho

Biotechnology, Society, & the Future of Medicine:

The Promises and Perils of Enhancement

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Shanice McLeish
David Urtecho
Lynn Kessler
Brianna Willis

Brianna Willis

Isolated & Imprisoned: An Ethical Discussion of Reproductive Rights for Incarcerated Minority Women

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Father Diego Menniti
Cara Crew

Fr. Diego Menniti

Theoretical Considerations Concerning

the Status of the Human Embryo

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Cara Crew

“Phenomenology, Existential Intractability,

and Physician-Assisted Suicide Practices in the Netherlands and the United States

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2018 Symposium
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