MacLean Lecture Series.
The MacLean Center Annual Lecture Series has been an essential part of the Ethics Fellowship at the University of Chicago for the past 40 years. This year’s lecture series includes medical history and ethics in a variety of dimensions. Attached are the current lecture series, video of this year’s lectures, a bibliography as well as the various themes that have been explored over the last 4 decades.
40th Annual Lecture Series Schedule
2021-2022 Lecture Series Program — Since 1981, the MacLean Center has sponsored an annual lecture series that has examined the ethical aspects of one key health-related topic. In 2021-2022, our topic is History of Medicine and Ethics. Weekly lectures will be on Wednesdays until May 2022.
MacLean Youtube and Videos Archives
The Maclean Lecture Series Youtube Channel — Want to see lectures from current and past years? Click on the link below to find the lectures you missed!
Last 40 Years of the MacLean Lectures
Dorothy J. MacLean Fellows Conference — Each year for the past 33 years, the MacLean Center has hosted a conference that draws speakers, primarily former fellows of the MacLean Center, who discuss today’s issues in clinical medical ethics. The conference audience usually numbers 250 to 300 and includes more than 100 former faculty and fellows. The conference remembers Dorothy Jean MacLean, who helped create the MacLean Center and was deeply committed to its work. D.J. MacLean believed that education was the best way to improve the world and throughout her life supported many leading educational institutions.
Bibliography
Online Resources — The MacLean Center Library exists as a non-lending resource for faculty, fellows, and students working in the field of clinical medical ethics. You can also find resources for medical students, undergraduates, ethic journals, bioethics programs and video archives.
LINK - Maclean Resources
A Timeline of Bioethics
The Hasting Center Bioethics — “Bioethics” has been defined in several different ways. Most broadly, it is the interdisciplinary study of ethical, legal, and social issues arising in the life sciences and health care. Though it has roots tracing back decades or generations earlier, modern bioethics is widely held to have arisen in the late 1960s, roughly around the time of the founding of The Hastings Center in 1969. Since then, it has helped transform the practice of medicine and inform policy-making about myriad issues concerning the life sciences, from public health and delivery of medical care to agricultural biotechnology.