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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... KEEP READING

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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...... KEEP READING

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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”...... KEEP READING

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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...... KEEP READING

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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... KEEP READING

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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...... KEEP READING

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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...... KEEP READING

Posted on Wednesday, January 30th, 2019 in News | Comments Off on Recent Publications 2018-2019

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.”... KEEP READING

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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.”... KEEP READING

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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...... KEEP READING

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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 &...... KEEP READING

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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...... KEEP READING

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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...... KEEP READING

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Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene

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...... KEEP READING

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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/... KEEP READING

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