The Bioethics Project Visits Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics
The Bioethics Project students recently visited the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown, as a part of the years-long partnership the Ethics Institute at Kent Place has with the university. The students have been exploring individual topics within “Women in Bioethics.”
The visit began with a meeting with the director of the Kennedy Institute, Daniel P. Sulmasy, and Laura Bishop, the academic program director, during which students learned how the institute incorporates expertise from those in philosophy, medicine, religion, public policy, and the social services. The students saw a presentation from Maria Kuhn, a visiting researcher from Germany, about ethical questions regarding motherhood, and from Sheldon Rubenfeld, who addressed “Medicine after the Holocaust,” about such topics as eugenics, physician-assisted suicide, and medicine moving away from the doctor-patient relationship and toward the medical-industrial complex.
The students then went to the Bioethics Research Library, and worked closely with research specialists and their mentors, who helped guide them in their investigations.
As is tradition, the students had lunch at The Tombs and enjoyed a trip to the Escape Room for a bonding experience.
“The Bioethics Project continues to be the signature program of the Ethics Institute at Kent Place School. I’m so grateful to Dr. Bishop and Georgetown University for providing this incredible opportunity. Every year, this trip is a highlight as our students delve into scholarly research with the greatest bioethics thinkers/scholars at the premier bioethics library in the country.”
“The trip to the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University is a cornerstone of the Bioethics Project,” said Maura Crowe, one of the teachers of the course. “Not only do our students meet and learn from experts in the field, but they also get to access resources from the largest and most diverse collection of materials on bioethics. Beyond their work, the students have a chance to learn and grow together as a cohort.”