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College of Medicine: Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics
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  • Faculty and Staff
    • D. Micah Hester, Ph.D.
    • Lauren Bunch, Ph.D.
    • Brandy M. Fox, Ph.D.
    • Angela Scott, M.D., Ph.D., FAAP
    • Eva Regel, D.Be.
    • Chris Hackler, Ph.D. – Emeritus Professor
      • Publications and Presentations
  • Education
    • Ethics Grand Rounds
    • M4 Medical Student Electives
    • Bruce and Brandon Lee Medical Scholarship
      • Grantee Responsibilities and Expectation
    • Moral Distress Intensive Workshop
      • Presenter Bios
      • Symposium Video
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      • Clinical Ethics Consultation
        • Difficult Decisions Where the ECS Can Help
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      • Advance Medical Directives
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    • Scholarship and Research Support
      • Research Ethics Consultation (RECS)
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Scholarship and Research Support

We Contribute to Ethics Scholarship

Department faculty members have made important contributions to scholarship in the medical humanities through

  • More than 25 books on topics such as advance medical directives, hospital ethics committees, writing and healing, civil war surgery, health care reform, and more
  • More than 100 book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in leading journals
  • Editorship of the prestigious journal Literature and Medicine
  • Research supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Faculty members have held leadership positions in primary professional organizations, such as

  • American Osler Society
  • American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
  • Association of Professional Chaplains
  • International Society for the History of medicine
  • Pediatric Ethics Consortium
  • Society for Health and Human Values

Resources

  • Research Ethics Consultation (RECS)

    Assists researchers or research participants with any ethical concern

  • IRB

    Visit the UAMS Institutional Review Board website

  • Conflict of Interest Policy

    Download the UAMS COI Policy (PDF)

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