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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... KEEP READING

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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...... KEEP READING

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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...... KEEP READING

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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...... KEEP READING

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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.... KEEP READING

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Symposium on the Science of Violence and Compassion

I spoke at a symposium sponsored by the Silvio O. Conte Neuroscience Research Institute at Vanderbilt and the Avielle Foundation on “The Science of Violence and Compassion.” May 4, 2017 at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville.... KEEP READING

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Presentation at Brooklyn College

Presented a paper on “Solidarity and the Ethics of Place,” at Caring for Philosophy: A Conference Celebrating the Work of Eva Feder Kittay, Brooklyn College, New York, NY, April 21-22, 2017... KEEP READING

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January 2017 issue of Minding nature is available

The January 2017 issue of the journal I edit, Minding Nature, is now on line. I have an article about what can be done about climate change in the Trump years ahead. Also in this issue are essays on the ecological effects of barriers on the southwestern US-Mexico border, art and information blending to understand...... KEEP READING

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University Lecture at Penn State

On September 29, 2016 Bruce Jennings presented a University Lecture at Penn State University on “Care in the Face of Autonomy: Choice Architecture and Relational Judgment in Professional Practice,” sponsored by the Department of Bio-behavioral Health.... KEEP READING

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Grand Rounds at Wake Forest Medical Center

On October 11, 2016 Bruce Jennings presented Medical Grand Rounds at the Wake Forest University Medical Center on “Sharing the Cost of Being Vulnerable: New Directions in Ethic Near the End of Life.”... KEEP READING

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University Lecture at Wake Forest

On October 11, 2016 Bruce Jennings delivered a university-wide public lecture at Wake Forest University on “Solidarity and the Moral Imagination.”... KEEP READING

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September 2016 issue of Minding Nature is available

The September 2016 issue of the journal I edit, Minding Nature, is now on line. In this issue are essays on developing a moral conscience, the turn toward nationalism and isolationism in the world today, the new educational and environmental mission of zoos and aquariums, and much more. Art, interviews, and provocative reflections abound in...... KEEP READING

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Biotechnology: Interpreting its meaning

This is a video of a 10 minute presentation I presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for Genetics and Society. It discusses what is ethically and socially questionable in recent advances in biotechnology such as synthetic biology, and more recently gene editing and gene drives. It raises a series of questions for further...... KEEP READING

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Unnatural Selection

From Paris last year came the news of mute violence bent on causing death, and a few weeks later came answering news of spoken global consensus on climate action bent on preserving life. Terror was answered by hope. Those who would be president of the United States spoke at length about the terrorist attack in...... KEEP READING

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