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September
15, 1999
Dear Colleagues:
Welcome to the
newsletter of the Institute of Human Values in Health Care at the
Medical University of South Carolina. We intend to use the newsletter
to facilitate communication between our Institute faculty, fellows and
former fellows, and all who are interested in our work. The beginnings
you see here are the product of two former fellows. Bob Blank, who
wrote the opening article, is Professor of Political Science at
University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He was an Interdisciplinary
Fellow in the spring of 1999, and writes of his understanding of the value of
interdisciplinary scholarship.
Jason Arnold, another 1999 fellow, has degrees in both law and public
health. With this background, his major interest is in bioethics. He
has taken the initiative to create this newsletter, so any expressions
of appreciation should go to him. Besides taking responsibility for
the entire production, he also wrote the update on health policy. He
has previously worked in the area of pain policy, and publish on this
site a monograph surveying intractable pain policy in the United
States.
We plan to publish a variety of papers written by our faculty and
fellows on this site. Ellen Barton, Ph.D., Professor, Wayne State
University, will be the next to appear.
We hope you enjoy the first edition of Values@MUSC. We also hope
that you will take this opportunity to visit our Web site.
If you have any thoughts about the newsletter or Web site and how
they might better serve our mission or you would like to submit
an item, please contact Sharon Kest at (843) 792-5278.
Sincerely,
Robert M. Sade, M.D.
Director
Editor's
Note: The Institute of Human Values in Health Care was created
in 1994 by
Robert M. Sade, M.D., as an intercampus and interdisciplinary group of
scholars and professional committed to advancement of ethics and
health policy.
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