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Ethics of Diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder: Focus on Adolescents

This post was crafted in partnership with the UF-VA Bioethics Unit and Florida Community Innovation, a 501c3 nonprofit. In October 2023,  Dr. Michael Shapiro presented a Grand Rounds talk with the UF-VA Bioethics Unit about the ethics of diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). A recording of the…

“Medicine and Morality: Lessons from the Holocaust” with Dr. Stacy Gallin

The author of this post, Aniqa Ahmed, is a UF undergraduate student and an intern with Florida Community Innovation.  On Friday, October 22, 2021, the UF-VA Bioethics Unit participated in an online event featuring Dr. Stacy Gallin, Director of the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics & the Holocaust. During the…

UF-VA UNESCO Bioethics Unit Celebrates World Bioethics Day 2018

On Friday, October 19, the UF-VA UNESCO Bioethics Unit met for presentations commemorating World Bioethics Day. UNESCO has 73 units of this particular program, and our unit was set up three years ago with the help of Dr. Russel D’Souza, chair of UN Bioethics Day in Haifa. Dr. Russel D’Souza…

UF-VA Bioethics Unit

The mission of the UF-VA Bioethics Unit is to promote the teaching of ethics into everyday clinical practice. Contact: Joesph (Joe) E. Thornton, M.D. Head of the UF-VA Bioethics Unit of the International Chair of Bioethics, a World Medical Association Cooperating Center. Email: joethornton@ufl.edu    …