The Mudd Center
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Programs and Events
- 2024-2025: How We Live and Die: Stories, Values, and Communities
- 2023-2024: Ethics of Design
- 2022-2023: Beneficence: Practicing an Ethics of Care
- 2021-2022: Daily Ethics: How Individual Choices and Habits Express Our Values and Shape Our World
- 2020-2021: Global Ethics in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- 2019-2020: The Ethics of Technology
- 2018-2019: The Ethics of Identity
- 2017-2018: Equality and Difference
- 2016-2017: Markets and Morals
- 2015-2016: The Ethics of Citizenship
- 2014-2015: Race and Justice in America
- Leadership Lab
- Mudd Undergraduate Journal of Ethics
- Highlights
- Mudd Center Fellows Program
- Get Involved
The Roger Mudd Center for Ethics advances dialogue, teaching, and research about issues of public and professional ethics across all three of the University’s schools - the College, the Williams School, and the School of Law.
Yearly Ethics Theme
How We Live and Die: Stories, Values, and Communities
The layered and productive relationships of ethics, medicine, and narrative are at the heart of this year’s examination of the four pillars of western medical ethics: autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. With an emphasis on narrative and testimony, the series will offer a multidisciplinary inquiry-from the fields of anthropology, art, ethics, law, medicine, and religion-into poignant questions and dilemmas related to medical research, care, and access. For instance, what happens when the harms of a medical experiment are not conveyed to its subjects? What does it mean to die with dignity? What are the conflicting social values and personal beliefs around such a practice? Why do specific diseases disproportionately affect indigenous populations in the Americas? Who has the moral responsibility to respond to such endemic disease and how? Is there a social obligation to provide healthcare to all? These questions and others bear directly on how we conceive of notions of autonomy, beneficence, non-harm, and justice, which in turn affect how we live and die.
Upcoming Public Events
The Mudd Center
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Washington and Lee University
209 Mattingly House
Lexington, VA 24450
Students in W&L’s Bonner Program spent the last year creating a digital map of health care networks for people experiencing homelessness worldwide.
Jim Withers is the Next Speaker in the Mudd Lecture Series
Withers, founder of the Street Medicine Institute, will give a lecture on March 26 at 5 p.m. in Stackhouse Theater on W&L’s campus.
W&L Presents an Evening with Playwright and Actor Christine Toy Johnson
Johnson will present excerpts of her recent musical and give a public talk on March 24 at 7 p.m. in Johnson Theater.
