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Health Care Ethics USA
Quite a few months have passed since the previous issue of Health Care Ethics USA. My time has been absorbed all too much due to the additional responsibility of chairing a search committee for a new Dean of the School of Public Health at Saint Louis University. Fortunately that time consuming process is drawing to a happy close! Also, with this issue the Center is moving to the publication of three issues each year of Health Care Ethics USA in order to streamline the production costs and time. As we plan ahead we hope to increase the number of essays while keeping costs down to provide a high quality journal for our readers. I am very pleased to inform you that we have decided not to increase the cost of subscriptions. We welcomed into our PhD program a new student from the Philippines in January, Alvenio Mozol. Now we have 25% of our student body from other nations! And as we plan the admissions for next Fall we anticipate a strong enrollment, including a student from Canada. Also, we have good news on the faculty side too. A few weeks ago our University Provost approved a new tenure-track faculty position at the rank of assistant professor for our Center. We initiated the search immediately, and we hope to hire a new member of faculty by July 2002. Because our PhD program is interdisciplinary in nature, we have several faculty from other departments assisting us as members of the search committee. The focus of the search is to find a scholar with ethics expertise in Institutional Review Board (human subjects’ protection) related issues. Already, we are receiving very exciting applications. If you know of any qualified candidates who may be interested in joining our Center as a member of the PhD program in health care ethics, please refer them to our website: http://chce.slu.edu Graduation season is almost upon us again – the time for caps and gowns, smiling graduates, proud families, and delightful temperatures! So far, our PhD program in health care ethics has graduated 4 students and we look forward to many more of our graduates establishing their careers in health care and in the academy. Already we have several former students establishing impressive reputations as ethicists in health care and as scholars in university life. Long may that continue! Let me take this opportunity of graduation season to thank all of our faculty, staff, and students for their magnificent work, making the Center a joyful place to be with an accomplished community of scholars. And let me thank all our readers for your support of our work and mission over the years. Graduation season is a good time to be thankful for the many blessings we enjoy at the Center. And talking of blessings, let me conclude this column with a very special word of congratulations to Dr. Jill (Ciesla) Burkemper and her husband Mike on their first baby, Juliana who was born just a few weeks ago. Jill is a member of our faculty and it is wonderful for us all at the Center to celebrate a new baby among us! Both Jill and Juliana are in fine health. As usual, this issue of Health Care Ethics USA has three essays. The first essay, on the increasingly urgent issue of terrorism, is by Griffin Trotter, MD, PhD, one of the Center’s tenure-track faculty. Griffin presents a bioethics prospectus that addresses how we might approach the war on terrorism. The second essay is by James DuBois, PhD, DSc, another member of the tenured faculty at the Center. Jim discusses the controversial issue of financial incentives for organ donations from a principle perspective. The third essay is by Martin Onwu, JD, who is a senior student in our PhD program. Martin analyzes the debate on the moral status of the early embryo from a public policy perspective. I hope you enjoy the essays and I look forward to receiving suggestions for topics that we might address in future essays. Professor Gerard Magill, PhD Index | Next: Bioethics And The War On Terrorism: A Prospectus |
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