Ethical Challenges of the Private Offer of IVF
October 24 @ 1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Join Vardit Ravitsky, President and CEO of The Hastings Center for Bioethics, at the Toward a Uniform Code of Ethics for Healthcare Executives and Clinicians Symposium. This symposium, organized by FASPE, will explore the necessary confluence of medical ethics and business ethics in the singular interest of healthcare.
Session 3 – Ethical Challenges of the Private Offer of IVF
Moderator: Vardit Ravitsky (The Hastings Center for Bioethics)
Panelists: Louise P. King (Harvard Medical School)
Alan Penzias (Harvard Medical School)
IVF is an interesting case study of ethical issues arising from the tension between business and medical contexts. Here, the commercial setting touches on an important health care procedure that has enormous emotional and social implications.
