Reading Group

Classics of Medical Ethics

Mondays | 5.00-6.30pm | Anlyan Center N203 (300 Cedar Street)

A new series dedicated to discussing essays in medical ethics that have established themselves as classics in the field. Each meeting will focus on a single paper that has proven especially influential, or which offers a concise encapsulation of an influential approach to medical ethics. The topics covered will include the ethics of the physician-patient relationship, the ethics of medical experimentation, end of life issues, and more. The group will meet twice in the fall and then monthly during the spring semester.

Organized in collaboration with the Program for Biomedical Ethics. This reading group is open to medical students at Yale School of Medicine. Meetings will be led by Peter Wicks (Scholar-in-Residence, Elm Institute) and Jane Abbottsmith (Yale MD/PhD program). Places are limited; click below to RSVP. For more information please contact Peter Wicks.

Fall Dates
Oct 28 | Tom Beauchamp, “Principlism and Its Alleged Competitors” [RSVP]
Dec 9 | Edmund Pellegrino’s “Toward a Reconstruction of Medical Morality” [RSVP]

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

William Osler, Aequanimitas