Eric Kodish, from the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Ethics, Humanities, and Spiritual Care, presents this year's seventh Research Grand Round about parents and patients in pediatric research. Eric Kodish, from Cleveland Clinic's Center for Ethics, Humanities, and Spiritual Care, will … Read more

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch comes to Chapel Hill to ask: Is war for the weak? Did Black Power strengthen the civil rights movement? Is nonviolence boring? From drones to mass culture, what is the unexamined role of force? Carolina … Read more

Visiting Professor of Philosophy Jonathan Anomaly argues that the prohibition of recreational drugs is morally dubious, and suggests instead that we should focus on regulating antimicrobial drugs in order to minimize the collective harm associated with antibiotic resistance. Parr Center … Read more

Presented by the New Yorker's James Surowiecki Sponsored by the Carolina Economics Club, UNC Student Government, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the UNC School of Information and Library Science, the Center for Global Initiatives, the Morehead-Cain Foundation, and … Read more

North Carolina State Bar Deputy Counsel Carmen Bannon will explain lawyers' ethical obligation of confidentiality and discuss situations in which keeping client secrets can be morally devastating even though it is ethically required. Parr Center Lunch & Learn events are … Read more

Panel discussion on the history and evolution of the institution of marriage. Lunch is provided, please register here. Cosponsored by Sexuality Studies. Marriage is making weekly headlines across the United States.  The political issue of whether to extend marriage, with … Read more

The Inaugural Health and Human Rights Lecture will be presented by Sofia Gruskin, J.D., M.A. Free and open to the public, reception to follow. Sofia Gruskin is a pioneering expert on public health and human rights, teaching preventive medicine and … Read more

Visiting Professor of Philosophy Dr. Iskra Fileva discusses money, ethics, and the pharmaceutical industry. Parr Center Lunch & Learns are open to anyone to attend. Lunch is provided, but registration is required. If you are a stockholder in a pharmaceutical … Read more

Gail Henderson, of the UNC Dept. of Social Medicine, presents the eighth Research Grand Round concerning the re-framing of biobanks. Gail Henderson, of the UNC Dept. of Social Medicine, will give a lecture concerning the ethical issues inherent in the … Read more

Margaret Little, PhD, Director and Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University. Dr. Little’s research is in ethics, bioethics and feminist theory. In collaboration with the UNC Health System’s Hospital Ethics Committee,  the … Read more