Guest Blogger Dominic Sisti

Welcome to Dominic Sisti, our Guest blogger for the next few months. Those of you with interest in bioethics for high school students know him, and we think he's great.

Here's a biosketch: Dominic A. Sisti is a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, an ethicist at Holy Redeemer Health System in Philadelphia, and an adjunct instructor at Villanova University. Dominic received his master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania (Bioethics, 2000) and his Bachelor of Science degree from Villanova University (Biology, 1996). He serves on several ethics committees and is currently working to develop the Center's High School Bioethics Project (PI- Prof. McGee) (see highschoolbioethics.org). Dominic is a co-editor of Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine (with Profs. Caplan & McCartney, Georgetown University Press, June 2004).

Welcome, Dom!

Harvard Bioethics

Harvard held off on bioethics for a very, very long time. Ezekiel Emanuel worked hard to build something there before he moved to NIH. Then Harvard's Department of Social Medicine advanced the notion that bioethics needs to be framed as something other than "bioethics," and created its own, small division of medical ethics to keep that faith. Like several other top schools, Harvard has kept a low profile on the bioethics scene. Beginning in 2002, though, Harvard has been grabbing up senior scholars in bioethics, spread out across several schools and departments. Norman Daniels now chairs an amazing graduate education steering committee that is offering a PhD level degree in bioethics. Faculty include Dan Brock, Allan Brandt, Nicholas Christakis, Norm, Frances Kamm, Thomas Scanlon and Dan Wikler.