The Nathan Smith Society invites all students to participate in this timely discussion Tuesday, March 4, 5 PM in the Ethics Institute with dinner.  RSVP requested as below.


The Geisel-Dartmouth Bioethics & Social Interest Group is excited to announce an event addressing ethical issues in cross-cultural medicine. We will be examining informed consent in a cross-cultural context, and IRBs in more general cross cultural terms. IRBs otherwise known as ethics review boards are institutions that are at the center of much bioethics work in the US and Europe but that emerge from and are structured around particular cultural assumptions about what ethics is, and what is ethical.


The event will take place on Tuesday, March 4th from 5:00 - 6:00 in the Ethics Institute.


Sienna Craig, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, will present and facilitate a dinner discussion addressing the ethics and procedures of informed consent and IRB decision making from a bioethics point of view.


This discussion is organized in the tradition of previous events we have held in prior terms. Professor Craig will first present a brief description of the contentious issues in the field before opening the floor to questions as well as smaller group discussions. The event will frame the core of the issue and present different viewpoints and all are welcome whether or not you are a pre-health or medical student!  Pizza will be served and we hope to see you there!


Space is limited so please R.S.V.P (and direct any questions) to Katie Tai ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).  Please indicate any dietary restrictions.


More information on Professor Craig from her online biography:

As a cultural anthropologist, the major focus of Sienna's research, writing, and teaching is the social study of medicine. Her work is invested in understanding the multiple ways that so-called 'traditional' medical systems interact with biomedicine: from patient-healer relationships and the cultural meanings people ascribe to suffering and affliction; to the wider socioeconomic and political circumstances in which medical practitioners are trained, healing occurs, and medicines are produced, evaluated, and distributed. Over the past ten years, much of her current research and writing projects investigate contemporary Tibetan medicine, both in Nepal and Tibetan areas of China and as a globalizing "complementary and alternative" medicine. She has also conducted research on women's and children's health, migration and social change, and the impacts and politics of health-development interventions.