Fellowships:
The Indiana University Center for Bioethics seeks an M.D., Ph.D. or Pharm.D. to participate in a fellowship program designed in collaboration with the IUSM Pharmacogenetics Research Center. The purpose of the program is to provide highly motivated individuals with the skills necessary to contribute to knowledge at the intersection of pharmacogenomics, ethics, and public policy. Pharmacogenomics involves the study of genetic factors that influence response to drugs. As new methods for understanding the relationship between genetics and drugs are developed, ethical, legal and social issues will arise. Successful candidates will undergo two years of didactic training and research at the intersection of ethics and public policy under the mentorship of faculty from the Indiana University Center for Bioethics and the Pharmacogenetics Research Center. Salary and benefits will he based on NIH post-doctoral trainee guidelines in the $40,000 to $50,000 range. Applications with curriculum vitae and two references should be submitted in writing or by email to: Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D. Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics, 1481 West 10th Street, Suite CB-112, Indianapolis. Indiana 46202. The Center invites applications for its Resident Fellowship Program for Academic Year 2004-2005.

The Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy announces a program to help prepare select military officers, career civil servants, academics, and others to teach, and practice ethics in a variety of professional and institutional settings. Ideal candidates from academia will have a background in ethics, international affairs, security studies, and/or public policy, with an interest in pursuing issues of ethics in military affairs. national defense, and international security in their teaching and research. Each Fellow will be required to complete one or more research writing projects and to participate in a weekly Fellows Seminar. Fellows will be encouraged to participate in other activities and programs of the Center and the Naval Academy. Fellows will receive office space, computer facilities, library privileges, and a stipend (equivalent to half-salary, up to $30,000. (Health, retirement and Social Security benefits are not offered.) This is a full-time, in-residence fellowship. which runs from August 2004 through May 2005. Applicants should send a letter describing their interests in ethics in the areas listed above: a proposal for a research project to be undertaken during the fellowship; a curriculum vitae; and copies of relevant publications. Applicants should also arrange for two letters of reference to be sent directly to the Center Director. The deadline for the receipt of applications is January 2, 2004. The names of the recipients of Fellowships will be announced by the end of March 2004. All application materials should be sent to: Dr. Albert C. Pierce, Director. Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics, U.S. Naval Academy, 112 Cooper Road, Annapolis, MD 21402-5022. For further information, please call the Director at 410-293-6057, write to him at acpierce@usna.edu or visit the website at www.usna.edu/ethics.

Call For Papers:
The International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics (ISBEE) announces the Third ISBEE World Congress July 14-17, 2004 University of Melbourne, Australia: Freedoms and Responsibilities in Business, with three main topic areas: Ethics and Global Challenges; Ethics and Corporate Governance; Ethics, Information and Technology. The Organizing Committee of the Congress invites full papers and abstracts on these three main topic areas or on other topics such as: Developing ethical corporate cultures; Global competition and responsibilities of small and medium-sized companies; Serving the poor profitably; Corruption, bribery and gift giving; Business and human rights; Corporate social and environmental responsibilities; Workplace ethics; Moral courage and whistle-blowing; Voluntary codes and mandatory standards. Full papers should contain no more than 4,200 words (plus a 100-150 word abstract) and must be submitted by January 5, 2004. Notification of acceptance for presentation (30 minutes) will be given by March 15, 2004. Full papers can also be submitted until March 1 with the notification of acceptance given two months after the submission date. Abstracts (250-300 words) of papers may be submitted by March 1, 2004. Notification of acceptance for brief presentation (15 minutes) will be given by March 30. 2004. Papers and abstracts must be written in Word, Word Perfect or RTF format and should be submitted by mail or e-mail to: ISBEE Secretariat, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA; E-mail: isbee@nd.edu. For further information and program details see: www.isbee.org and www.conferences.unimelb.edu.au/ISBEECongress.

DePaul University and its Institute for Business and Professional Ethics will host the Eleventh Annual International Business Ethics Conference in Chicago on October 21-23, 2004. The theme of the conference is "Ethics all the way through." Sponsors are particularly interested in panels or presentations that focus on how to integrate ethics "all the way through" an organization: in its corporate mission, management thinking, and organizational intent. Sponsors also welcome papers or case studies that illustrate best practices in business and corporate life. The conference will be held at The Standard Club in the heart of downtown Chicago. Proposals are due on May 15 and all inquiries may be directed to Michele Hoffman. Email: shrksb8@aol.com. Phone: 312-362-8786.

Business Ethics Quarterly, the scholarly journal of the Society for Business Ethics, is soliciting articles on the ethics of organizational ethics initiatives. Papers selected will be published in a special issue of the journal. The topic is broadly defined, and submissions may be empirical, conceptual, and/or normative, and may reflect varied disciplinary frameworks. For-profit, non-profit, and governmental organizations frequently engage in formal and informal initiatives ostensibly aimed at fostering ethical behavior by the organization and its members. Ethics initiatives variously include formal ethics policies, counseling and advisory programs. monitoring or investigative processes, reward and discipline systems, and also more informal activities such as management behavioral modeling and organizational cultural change. Normative scholarship has recommended the development of organizational ethics initiatives. and empirical research has examined the influences on and outcomes of such initiatives. But little attention has been given to the ethical qualities of these initiatives. This special issue is intended to redress that deficiency by prompting normative and empirical study of the ethics of organizational ethics initiatives. "The ethics of ethics initiatives" includes (but is not limited to) topics such as these: the ethical assumptions built into organizational ethics initiatives; the scope of ethical issues and perspectives addressed by ethics initiatives; the use of punishment and reward in ethics initiatives; issues of confidentiality and privacy in ethics initiatives; issues of fairness or justice in ethics initiatives; evaluations of ethics initiatives from the perspective of specific ethical theories; issues of influence, control, or indoctrination in ethics initiatives; the use of ethics initiatives to influence organizational images and identities; concepts and issues of responsibility in relation to organizational ethics initiatives; public policy and organizational ethics initiatives; the relation of organizational ethics initiatives to the kinds of products and services offered by the organization, and to the kinds of jobs, tasks, and workforces that are common in the organization. For more information, contact the special issue editor, Gary R. Weaver at weaverg@lerner.udel.edu. All submissions will be double-blind reviewed following the journal's normal review process. Final decisions on submissions rest with the Editor-in-Chief. Submissions must follow BEQ guidelines (http://www.societyforbusinessethics.org/info_contrib.htm). Send submissions for this special issue to: Professor Gary R. Weaver, Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716. Due date: January 31, 2005.

The Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, founded by students at the University of Tennessee College of Law. is now accepting submissions for 2004-2005. This quarterly, non-partisan publication examines a range of issues at the intersection of law and public policy. In addition to traditional scholarly articles, the Journal is interested in commentaries and essays from a variety of disciplines including ethics, philosophy, law, political science, sociology. public policy, economics, history, journalism, medicine, and communications. The Journal seeks articles touching on topics of both regional and national significance. Format and content guidelines are flexible depending on the nature of the article submitted. To submit an article, please e-mail the Journal at tjlp@justice.law.utk.edu. To learn more about the Journal, visit its website at www.law.utk.edu/students/tjlp/tjlphome.htm or contact Lee Evans, Editor-in-Chief, at 865-406-8147.

The HEC Forum (HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum: An Interprofessional Journal on Healthcare Institutions' Ethical and Legal Issues) invites papers on the theme: Creating and Sustaining Organizational Integrity by Integrating Compliance and Organizational Ethics Programs. Papers are sought that explore the conceptual and practical implications of the development of compliance or integrity programs for organizational ethics programs in health care organizations. There is at least anecdotal evidence that traditional ethics programs are being eclipsed by compliance or integrity programs in some organizations. Is there empirical evidence that supports or refutes such anecdotes, or are the programs being integrated in some organizations? If they are being integrated, how, if at all, are issues of compliance differentiated both conceptually and programmatically from issues of organizational ethics? How is "progress" in organizational compliance and ethics measured and tracked? What difference does the integration (or lack of it) make to the compliance and ethics curriculum(s)? Does their integration change educational/ training requirements and methodologies? How might the roles ethicists typically play change in this new environment? Is there a deliberate interface between compliance officers/managers and ethicists, and if so, how is this interface established and maintained at interpersonal and organizational levels? These and other questions may be investigated in these papers. Inquiries and papers should be directed to the issue editor: Jan C. Heller, Ph.D., Providence Health System, 506 Second Avenue, Suite 1200, Seattle, WA 98104-2329, Phone: 206-464-4728, Email: Jan.Heller@providence.org. Submission Deadline: August 1, 2004.

Seminars:
A Summer Seminar in Clinical Ethics, August 2-6, 2004, at the University of Washington, Seattle, will provide an intensive, interactive introduction to the four-box method of analysis of ethical problems in clinical care, developed by Jansen and others in their book Clinical Ethics. For more information (or to receive a Seminar brochure when available), please contact: Marilyn J. Barnard, Manager Continuing Education Program, University of Washington, Department of Medical History and Ethics, Campus Box 357120 Seattle, WA 98195-7120. Email: mbarnard@u.washington.edu. Phone: 206 616-1864. Fax: 206-685-7515

The Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College announces, Teaching the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project, a 2004 Summer Institute for faculty from liberal arts colleges and universities who are interested in developing a course on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of the Human Genome Project (HGP). In partnership with Howard University, Dartmouth will offer three, five-day ELSI teaching programs June 13-18 (at Howard), July 18-23 (at Dartmouth), and July 25-30 (at Dartmouth). (Applicants may wish to indicate which session they would prefer to attend, but top choices cannot be guaranteed. The three programs will be very similar in content). The Summer Institute will be an intensified version of a successful program offered at Dartmouth during past summers. Faculty participants will collaborate with leading experts on the social implications of the HGP, examine cutting-edge issues in human genetics research, learn new skills of multidisciplinary teaching, and acquire the knowledge, material, and support needed to successfully teach an ELSI course at their home institutions. Institute participants will be competitively selected from a pool of applicants demonstrating excellent teaching skills and a commitment to multidisciplinary teaching. Applications are being solicited from two-person inter disciplinary teams as well as from individual faculty. Every effort will be made to ensure diversity among the participants in terms of academic discipline, gender, race, and ethnicity. Participants will receive a modest stipend to attend. In addition, all materials, campus lodging, and some meals will be provided. For more information and to apply online: www.dartmouth.edu/~ethics/. Phone: 603-6461263. Fax: 603-646-9393. Email: ethics.institute@dartmouth.edu. Ethics Institute, 6031 Parker House, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755.

Job:
The Indiana University Center for Bioethics invites applications for an Associate Director for Clinical Ethics-Director, Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, Clarian Health Partners. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing a comprehensive clinical ethics program in a large University-affiliated hospital system. Responsibilities include supporting and evaluating a clinical ethics consultation service, participating in both undergraduate and graduate medical ethics teaching, and conducting research on clinical ethics issues. The candidate must have an M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent academic credentials. The candidate must have a record of program development in bioethics in hospitals or health care institutions. Evidence of successful university-level teaching and research in bioethics is preferred. This is a fulltime faculty position at Indiana University with salary being determined by academic credentials and experience. Interested applicants should submit a curriculum vitae and letter of interest (email version also accepted) by January 16, 2004 to: Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D., Director, Indiana University Center for Bio-ethics, 1481 W. 10th St., Suite CB-112, Indianapolis, IN 46202. Fax: 317-554-0122. Email: emeslin@iupui.edu

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