When:
Thursday, November 21, 2019
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor/Searle Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: FREE
Contact:
Myria Knox
(312) 503-7962
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings, Grand Rounds
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD, HEC-C
The Father Michael I. English, SJ, Professor of Medical Ethics
Director, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Health Policy
Loyola University Chicago
The Health of Dreamers after DACA:
Ethical and Practical Considerations for Medicine and Public Policy
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program positively impacted numerous dimensions of the social determinants of health of undocumented youth who qualified for the program. It also made colleagues of some of this population as they matriculated into medical schools and residency programs. This presentation will review the brief history of DACA and its many benefits to medicine and society. DACA is now under stress and future directions must be charted. This presentation will argue that the moral claims of undocumented youth, including those based on health and healthcare, ethically require a “perpetual DREAM Act,” not a one-time fix. Common counterarguments will also be considered.