"Everything for Sale? The Ethics and Economics of Compensation for Body Parts," a symposium to be held May 7, 2015, at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Alumni Auditorium, is to feature a welcome by the Carey Business School's Dean Bernard T. Ferrari and an introduction by Carey Assistant Professor Mario Macis.
The Carey School is a co-sponsor of the free event, with the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Carey's Macis has conducted extensive research on the economics of compensation for human blood and body parts.
The panelists scheduled to appear are James Childress, the John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics at the University of Virginia; Michele Goodwin, Chancellor's Professor of Law at the University of California at Irvine; Alvin Roth, the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics; and Debra Satz, Professor of Ethics in Society at Stanford.
Jeffrey Kahn, the Robert Henry Levi and Ryda Hecht Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy at the Berman Institute, is to serve as moderator.
Ruth Faden, the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director and the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the Berman Institute, also will make welcoming remarks.
The symposium is to be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, May 7, with a reception to follow. The auditorium is at 525 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore 21205.
To register, go to this web page.