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SUMMARY:Intentionally Infecting Humans: Is It Ethical? - Seema Shah
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DESCRIPTION:The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program     Presents     A Montgomery Lecture     With     Seema K. Shah\, JD\, HEC-C Founder’s Board Professor of Medical Ethics\, Lurie Children’s Hospital Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine\, Pritzker School of Law (by courtesy)  Intentionally Infecting Humans: Is It Ethical?  In controlled human infection (CHI) research\, researchers intentionally expose people to pathogens to gain scientific insights. CHI research has led to key breakthroughs but remains controversial. In this talk\, Professor Shah will first provide a brief historical overview of this research\, demonstrating how ethically problematic research from the past still casts a shadow on research today. She will then explain modern CHI research and demonstrate how a fundamental lack of understanding of this research contributes to ongoing ethical controversy. Professor Shah will also provide an ethical framework for analyzing CHI research that highlights the difference between creating a new model for infecting humans for the first time and using an established and safe model in CHI studies. This important distinction can help calibrate when extra scrutiny is needed for CHI research. Finally\, the lecture will close by showing how lessons from the analysis of CHI research can help advance research ethics more generally.  This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior St)\, Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely\, a Zoom option is also available.  Only Zoom attendees are required to register ** PLEASE REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK** REGISTER HERE   Read more about this series | Sign up for lecture announcements   \n\nRegister: https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/8JXX7QWSS9i83XAd9r6T8w
LOCATION:Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center\, Searle seminar room\, 303 E. Superior\, Chicago\, IL 60611
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URL:https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632423
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