From May 14, 2020 webinar.

Bioethics and COVID-19: the tension of quarantine and civil liberties.

– Public health law, individual liberty, and the role of the medical profession.

Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O6Xe...

This timely discussion will:

explore the tension between quarantine and civil liberty,
discuss differences between ethics and bioethics,
examine the concepts of beneficence and non-maleficence and of informed consent and autonomy,
plus the role of Public Health Authorities and Public Health Programs during pandemics.

Dr. Dobken's writing has been recently featured at KevinMD.com:
https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2020/03/...

Jeffrey Hall Dobken, MD, MPH

Dr. Dobken's undergraduate training in biology was at the University of Virginia and graduate training in medicine was at New York Medical College. He completed his post-doctoral training in Pediatric Immunology/Allergy at Cornell University Medical College (now Weill-Cornell). His formal training in bioethics was at Columbia Physicians and Surgeons School of Medical Humanities and his academic appointments include: Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatric Immunology/Allergy at NY Hospital- Weill/Cornell School of Medicine; Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Departments of Environmental Sciences and Epidemiology & Community Health at NYMC. Since the mid-1980s Dr. Dobken has been a member of the Biomedical Ethics Committee of the Medical Society of NJ. and he has lectured and taught bioethics topics in a variety of venues and settings.