Welcome

Welcome to the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, where we are dedicated to enhancing high school education through the teaching of bioethics.  

This is the website of a sub-project of the High School Bioethics Project. With the generous support of the Dana Foundation we are working to provide resources to high school teachers about cutting edge issues in neuroethics.

As we develop and assemble these resources, we welcome your input. If you have ideas or suggestions related to teaching bioethics to high school students, or if you are seeking support in developing a bioethics course at your school, please contact us.  

 


Upcoming Workshop
 
Please join us Saturday February 21, 2009 at the Peddie School in Hightstown, NJ. Together we will explore ways to more fully integrate bioethics into secondary education.Center or Bioethics faculty will teach and facilitate discussion around important bioethical issues, with a specific focus on cases in neuroethics.

All high school teachers and administrators are welcome to attend. Registration is free but space is limited. To reserve your place and for further details, please email Dominic Sisti.

This workshop is sponsored by the Dana Foundation and the Peddie School.

In the News

"Students Learn How, Not What, to Think About Difficult Issues"
Greg Miller

A new project at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) will help teachers tackle topics in neuroethics, such as potential forensic and military uses of brain-imaging technology and the care of patients in a persistent vegetative state (see hsneuroethics.org/). Funded by the Dana Foundation and led by bioethics graduate student Dominic Sisti, the program will supplement a high school bioethics project begun several years ago by Penn bioethicist Arthur Caplan. The group is developing a neuroethics primer and will run workshops for local teachers.

Science 10 October 2008: Vol. 322. no. 5899, pp. 186 - 187

 

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With the generous support of The Dana Foundation