Eugenics: The Curse That Keeps on Cursing

Описание: Welcome to our FAIR in Medicine webinar, Eugenics: The Curse That Keeps on Cursing, to hear how the timeless desire to “improve” the human race is still with us. The often-sordid history of eugenics in the United States was explored in the 2016 PBS documentary The Eugenics Crusade: What’s Wrong with Perfect?

Mark Buchanan, MD is a FAIR in Medicine Fellow, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. His degrees are from Harvard College and Tufts University School of Medicine. Mark’s clinical career included primary care internal medicine in rural Appalachia, in a staff-model HMO, a private group practice, and a university-affiliated faculty practice. He has been a medical director at a large insurance company and in a state-wide correctional health system serving 20,000 inmates. Mark developed an elective course in medical ethics, delivered entirely by ZOOM and utilizing dramatizations and documentaries, entitled Doctors Behaving Badly: Medical Ethics at the Movies. His passion is to see medicine freed from the influence of bad science and dubious social and political ideologies.

Robert F. Graboyes, PhD., is a FAIR in Medicine Fellow, and president of RFG Counterpoint -- a consulting firm in Alexandria, Virginia. His Substack journal, BASTIAT’S WINDOW, explores economics, ethics, health, technology, and culture. Bob is an economist whose work focuses on health, ethics, and technology. He's a journalist who received the prestigious Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2014. And he is a musician and songwriter. Bob received his PhD in Economics from Columbia University. Previously, he worked for the Mercatus Center and NFIB as healthcare scholar, Chase Manhattan Bank as economist for Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond as regional economist and director of education. He taught full-time at the University of Richmond, was a part-time professor at four other top-tier universities, and was twice a visiting scholar in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

William B. Hurlbut, MD, is Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scholar in Neurobiology at the Stanford Medical School. After receiving his undergraduate and medical training at Stanford University, he completed postdoctoral studies in theology and medical ethics, studying with Robert Hamerton-Kelly, the Dean of the Chapel at Stanford, and subsequently with the Rev. Louis Bouyer of the Institut Catholique de Paris. Dr. Hurlbut’s primary areas of interest involve the ethical issues associated with advancing biomedical technology, the biological basis of moral awareness, and studies in the integration of theology with the philosophy of biology. He is the author of numerous publications on science and ethics.

Mr. Leach is a practicing attorney in Louisville, KY. He holds a J.D. from Tulane Law School and an M.A. in Bioethics from the University of Louisville. He sits on several boards, including the Kentucky Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities, Down Syndrome of Louisville (where he is responsible for its $2.5 million foundation), and Down Syndrome Affiliates in Action, the first ever national trade association for Local Down Syndrome parent support organization. He is the bioethics specialist for the National Center for Prenatal & Postnatal Down Syndrome Resources. Attorney Leach has presented at many conferences for physicians, genetic counselors, and parents, and through his website http://www.downsyndromeprenataltestin... offers expectant parents a nuanced view of prenatal testing. One of his children has Down Syndrome, and shares with her family an enthusiasm for visiting as many of our national parks and monuments as possible.

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