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The LSU Ethics Institute is the center of research, teaching, and training in the domain of ethics and human values.
Check out the amazing Embedded Ethics Modules developed with our LSU Ethics Institute faculty affiliates. Thanks to a generous grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents we worked with 10 STEM faculty from across the University to bring moral reasoning to their classrooms!
News/Events
will be giving a talk on Feb 26 Monday at Hill Memorial Library at 3:30pm. Her talk will be: "Born This Way Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement." The event is co-sponsor by Biology, English, History, The LSU Ethics Institute, Philosophy and Political Science Department. (Refreshments will be served).
Current Projects
Embedding Ethics in STEM @ LSU
Over the course of the 2022-2023 academic year, The Ethics Institute has been very actively engaged in convening a group of scholars from various disciplines on campus to produce operative tools to strengthen ethics pedagogy throughout the university. This work has included consultation and dialogue with Ethics consortiums from around the country.
You may submit requests for specific topics at ethics@lsu.edu. The LSU Library has compiled an annotated bibliography of interesting and useful books on ethics, at the following site: .
LSU History Department and the LSU Ethics Institute Fall 2023 Lecture Series: Race, History, and Medicine, read the Lecture Series announcement.
November 6 at 4:00 pm in French House Sternberg Salon, Ogden Honors College. Speaker: (U Penn emeritus), contributing editor for The New Republic and frequent contributor to The Progressive and The Nation. Learn more about the Nov. 6 Event.
Friday October 27 at 3:30 pm in Hill Memorial Library. Speaker: , Necropolis: Disease, Power and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom. Learn more about the Oct. 27 Event.
Monday October 23 at 3:30 pm in Hill Memorial Library. Speaker: , A City Without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities and Health Care Activism in New Orleans. Learn more about the Oct.23 Event.
COVID-19 in Louisiana
Andrea Gallo (The Advocate):
Ethics & Crisis Management in Louisiana: Summary
Louisiana Department of Health: State Hospital Crisis Standards of Care
Medical Ethics
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STAT News:
Johns Hopkins:
: The JCE has compiled a set of articles on Catastrophic Care. They are open for public access. On the front page of the website is a box entitled "JCE Special Publication." At the bottom of the box there is a link to access the document.
New England Journal of Medicine:
Scott Hershovitz (New York Times):
The Ethics of Recovery
MIT:
New York Times:
Paul Franks (The Conversation):
Bernardo Kliksberg (BBVA):
Personal and Social Ethics
Laura Marris (New York Times):
Sean Illing (Vox):
Sean Illing (Vox):
Allain de Botton (New York Times):
TIME Magazine:
Orhan Pamuk (New York Times):
Michiko Kakutani (New York Times):
Robert Zaretsky (TLS):