The Bioethicists of Union Graduate College Invite You to
Join them for a
Bioethics Breakfast with Dr, Noam
Zohar PhD Director of the Graduate Program in
Bioethics at Bar Ilan University, where he chairs the University Ethics
Committee.
Drawing on his experiences on the
Israeli National Commission for Health Care Allocation Dr. Zohar will
discuss� �Should This Baby Live?:
Insights on Allocating Healthcare Resources.�
Dr. Zohar is a member of the Ethics Committee of Rabin Medical Center, Petah
Tiquwa, and has been Faculty Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Ethics
and the Professions. He is also �a member of the Institute for Advanced
Study at Princeton. Dr. Zohar is Co-editor (along with Michael Walzer and
Menachem Lorberbaum) of the multi-volume Jewish Political Tradition
(Yale University Press).He has� been an
advisor on religious policy for Israel's Minister of Education and has served
and continues to serve on the ethics committees of several hospitals.
Some of his more recent publications include:
�Moral Disagreement and Providing
Emergency Contraception: A Pluralistic Alternative. American Journal of Bioethics 2007 (6):35 � 36.
�Innocence and Complex Threats:
Upholding the War Ethic and the Condemnation of Terrorism.� Ethics2004: 114 (4).
�Co-Operation
Despite Disagreement: From Politics to Healthcare.�Bioethics 2003: 17 (2):121�141.
�The End of Humanity: Does
Circumventing "Death" Help the Cause?� American Journal of Bioethics 2003: 3 (1):12 � 13.
Breakfast will be served from 9:30 to 11:00 AM on
