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Bruce Jennings and Lisa Lee discussing new APHA Public Health Code of Ethics

Follow this link to see a short video at the 2019 APHA meeting on the new Public Health Code of Ethics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YUyL2Nz96Y

Posted by on November 13, 2019 in News


Bruce Jennings co-authored a new code of public health ethics for the APHA

In 2015 APHA convened a task force charged with revising, expanding and updating the code of public health ethics that had been adopted and promulgated in 2002. This year the APHA approved a new “Public Health Code of Ethics,” and it was released at the association’s annual meeting held in Philadelphia in early November. I…

Posted by on November 10, 2019 in News


Minding Nature Fall 2019 issue is now online

The Fall 2019 issue of the journal I edit, Minding Nature, is now online. It features articles exploring the art and practice of natural history, environmental injustice in the building history of Chicago, interviews with authors Bryan Norton, Leah Penniman and Karen Washington, art, poetry, reviews of important recent books, and more. My “Think Here”…

Posted by on November 10, 2019 in News


Minding Nature Spring 2019 issue is now online

The Spring 2019 issue of the journal I edit, Minding Nature, is now online. It features articles exploring the art of exhibiting ice in the Anthropocene, life in flyover country, everyday animals, and more. Also in the issue are interviews with Kathleen Dean Moore and Marcia Bjornerud and works by artists Courtney Mattison, Katie Ione…

Posted by on November 10, 2019 in News


Jennings publishes new essay in Minding Nature Winter 2019

My regular “Think Here” column for Minding Nature in the Winter 2019 issue is on climate action politics and civic learning. It is called “Stymied, We Stew.” It can be downloaded at: https://www.humansandnature.org/stymied-we-stew

Posted by on February 15, 2019 in News


Minding Nature Winter 2019 issue is now online

The Winter 2019 issue of the journal I edit, Minding Nature, is now on line. It features articles exploring the agency and communicative abilities of nonhuman species and celebrating the many dimensions of meaning to be found in human and nature encounters, both in the wild and in urban places. We also have essays and…

Posted by on February 15, 2019 in News


Recent Publications 2018-2019

“Ethics Codes and Reflective Practice in Public Health,” Journal of Public Health, fdy140, https://doi/10.1093/pubmed/fdy140/5077245 “Solidarity and care as relational practices,” Bioethics. 32 (2018): 553-561. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12510 “Solidarity and Care Coming of Age: New Reasons in the Politics of Social Welfare Policy,” in Nancy Berlinger, Kate de Medeiros, and Mildred Solomon, eds. What Makes a Good Life…

Posted by on January 30, 2019 in News


Jennings named inaugural speaker in new Ohio University Bioethics Lecture Series

Thursday, March 28, 2019. Bruce Jennings will visit Ohio University in Athens, Ohio to deliver the 2019 Annual Jennifer Horner Lecture in Bioethics. The lecture is entitled: “Bioethics as Civic Learning: Rethinking One Another in a Time of Interdependence.”

Posted by on January 30, 2019 in News


Jennings to give plenary address at American Psychological Association meeting

On Saturday March 2, 2019, 5:00 p.m. Bruce Jennings will give a Plenary Address at the American Psychological Association, Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Mid-Winter Meeting at the Holiday Inn—Vanderbilt-Nashville, 2613 West End Avenue, Continental Ballroom.The address is entitled: “Relational Practices and Social Justice: Interpretive Phenomenologies of Solidarity, Care, and Civic Identity.”

Posted by on January 30, 2019 in News


Jennings join Hastings Center research group on gene editing

On February 21-22, 2019, Bruce Jennings will attend a research task force meeting of the Hastings Center Project on Public Deliberation for Gene Editing in the Wild, held at New York University, New York, NY. The project will investigate: (1) the kinds of proposed releases of genetically modified organisms into the environment warrant broad public…

Posted by on January 30, 2019 in News