Cases That Haunt Us: The MSMS 29th Annual Conference on Bioethics; Michigan State Medical Society, October 20, 2025

Michigan State Medical Society; Cases That Haunt Us: The MSMS 29th Annual Conference on Bioethics

"Join us for the 2025 MSMS Conference on Bioethics, a crucial event focused on the ethical complexity of real-world clinical encounters.

This year's theme, "Cases That Haunt Us: Examining Medical Ethics Issues Through the Particularly Difficult Cases," invites you to take a deep dive into the moral challenges of medicine.  We'll explore unforgettable, ethically fraught cases, the kind that truly stay with us.  This is your chance to understand the ethical depth of the cases that matter and why they shape compassionate care."

Ethics Case Studies Collection Continues to Grow; Daily Nous, January 15, 2021

Justin Weinberg, Daily Nous; 

Ethics Case Studies Collection Continues to Grow

"The Media Ethics Initiative at the University of Texas, Austin (reported on previously), directed by Scott Stroud, has a new website and new case studies on topics such as free speech and cancel culture, the ethics of investigative journalism, presidential tweeting, lobbying, AI, race and representation in Game of Thrones,  the ethics of documentary film, the ethics of art, and more...

You can check out the whole collection here."

Facebook: A Case Study in Ethics ; CMS Wire, December 20, 2018

Laurence Hart, CMS Wire; Facebook: A Case Study in Ethics 

"It feels like every week, a news item emerges that could serve as a case study in ethics. A company's poor decision when exposed to the light of day (provided by the press) seems shockingly bad. The ethical choice in most cases should have been obvious, but it clearly wasn’t the one made.

This week, as in many weeks in 2018, the case study comes from Facebook."

Why Doctors Should Read Fiction: Could a simple literary exercise make physicians more caring?; The Atlantic, July 30, 2018

Sam Kean, The Atlantic;

Why Doctors Should Read Fiction: Could a simple literary exercise make physicians more caring?

"The annals of literature are packed with writers who also practiced medicine: Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Carlos Williams, John Keats, William Somerset Maugham, and on and on. As doctors, they saw patients at their most vulnerable, and their medical training gave them a keen eye for observing people and what makes them tick.

But if studying medicine is good training for literature, could studying literature also be good training for medicine? A new paper in Literature and Medicine, “Showing That Medical Ethics Cases Can Miss the Point,” argues yes. In particular, it proposes that certain literary exercises, like rewriting short stories that involve ethical dilemmas, can expand doctors’ worldviews and make them more attuned to the dilemmas real patients face."