Bruce's blog posts
Jennings gives presentation on January 9, 2019 at Vanderbilt Law School on “Legal and Ethical Implications of CRISPR.”
A discussion of the legal, medical, and ethical implications of genomic editing, featuring Professors Jacob Sherkow of New York University School of Law and Bruce Jennings of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Department of Health Policy and Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society. Sponsored by the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Medical Ethics, Law &…
Posted by Bruce Jennings on January 30, 2019 in News, ethics, gene editing, law
September 2018 issue of Minding Nature is now online
The newest issue (September 2018) of the journal I edit, Minding Nature, is now on line. It features articles on weeding invasive plants in Yellowstone, the joys and challenges of unplugging and simplifying one’s life, sustainable food in Phoenix, reflections on family and loss, cultivating habits of slow looking, and a wide ranging biological essay…
Posted by Bruce Jennings on September 25, 2018 in News, Center for Humans and Nature, Climate change, Ecological care, environmental ethics, Evolution
Selected Recent Publications
Jennings B, Duncan LL. Water Safety and Lead Regulation: Physicians’ Community Health Responsibilities. AMA J Ethics. 2017 Oct 1;19(10):1027-1035. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.10.pfor1-1710. PMID: 29028471 Jennings B. The Moral Imagination of De-extinction. Hastings Cent Rep. 2017 Jul;47 Suppl 2:S54-S59. doi: 10.1002/hast.753. PMID: 28746767 Jennings B. “Overview of Ethical Issues in Environmental and Occupational Public Health,” in Public…
Posted by Bruce Jennings on February 16, 2018 in News
Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene Published
In January a new multi-volume reference work on environmental and Earth systems science was published as The Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, D. A. DellaSalla and M. I. Goldstein, Editors-in-Chief, 1st ed. 5 vols. (Oxford, UK: Elsevier Publishing, 2017). Bruce Jennings was an associate editor of the work and was responsible for volume 4, which was…
Posted by Bruce Jennings on February 16, 2018 in News, Biodiversity, Climate change, Earth systems, environmental ethics, Evolution
Jennings Gives Keynote at Public Health Conference in London
On January 18, 2018 Bruce Jennings presented (remotely) the Keynote Address at a Conference on Strengthening Ethics Capacity in Public Health, held at the Royal College of Physicians, London. His presentation was entitled: “Public Health Practice Ethics—Codes as Education and Capacity-Building Resources.” https://betterhealthforall.org/2018/01/29/strengthening-the-capacity-for-ethical-public-health/
Posted by Bruce Jennings on February 16, 2018 in News, bioethics, care, health policy, Human rights, Morality, public health, Solidarity
Jennings Presents the 2018 Montgomery Lecture
On January 15, 2018, Bruce Jennings presented the Third Annual Johnathan Montgomery Lecture sponsored by the Heath, Ethics, and Law Center at the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. January 15, 2018. His lecture was entitled: “Solidarity and Care in Ethics and Public Health.” https://www.southampton.ac.uk/heal/news/events/2017/12/third-annual-johnathan-montgomery-lecture.page
Posted by Bruce Jennings on February 16, 2018 in News, autonomy, bioethics, care, ethics, health policy, Human rights, Solidarity
Jennings presents at Bioethics Conference in Changsha, China
On January 8, 2018, Bruce Jennings took part in a day long public conference sponsored by the School of Medicine at Center South University in Changsha, China. The conference was on “US and China Perspectives on Bioethics, Law, and Philosophy.” He gave two presentations during the conference: “Why Is Improving End of Life Care Decision-making…
Posted by Bruce Jennings on February 16, 2018 in News, autonomy, bioethics, biotechnology, care, End of life care, ethics, health policy, Morality
January 2018 issue of Minding Nature is now online
The January 2018 (Volume 11, No. 1) issue of the journal I edit, Minding Nature, is now on line. I am thrilled and gratified by the following this publication has developed and by the fact that we now enter our 11th year of publication. 2018 is also the 15th Anniversary of the Center for Humans…
Posted by Bruce Jennings on February 16, 2018 in News, Center for Humans and Nature, environmental ethics, Minding Nature
May 2017 issue of Minding Nature
The May 2017 issue of the journal I edit, Minding Nature, is now on line. It features articles on the relationship between human evolution, culture, and morality. I contribute an essay on “Ecological Care.” On offer too is a discussion of how human rights tribunals can intervene in the regulation of fracking and in other…
Posted by Bruce Jennings on June 7, 2017 in News, Ecological care, ethics, Evolution, Fracking, Human rights, Minding Nature, Morality
Presentation at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
I delivered a lecture on “Emergency Triage and the Ethics of Care,” at the Defense Medical Ethics Symposium at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, May 8-10, 2017.
Posted by Bruce Jennings on May 15, 2017 in News
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