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Lecture – Dr. Daniel Wikler

"The Ethics of E-Cigs: Harm Reduction in Global Tobacco Control"

Presented by
Daniel Wikler, PhD
Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Department of Global Health and Population, School of Public Health, Harvard University
Co-director, Program on Ethical Issues in International Health Research

Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Sealy and Smith Foundation Residential Faculty Seminars Progrram Fund.

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Lecture – Dr. Daniel Wikler
, 2018 - -
1.104 Ewing Hall, 600 Harborside Drive, Galveston, TX
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Reproductive Ethics Conference

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The Ninth Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference will be held Jan. 9 and 10, 2025, in Galveston. Abstracts for individual presentations, panels, and posters are accepted through Aug. 1, 2024.

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, 2023 - -

This presentation examines the history of gender clinics in the United States. While not all transgender or gender-nonconforming people have historically sought the aid of medical interventions, few who did were able to receive such care at academic health centers in the U.S. until the emergence of gender clinics in the 1960s.

WIP: Hannah Carpenter

, 2023 - -

Work in Progress (WIP) in preparation for the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) Conference.