Racism, Inclusion, and Justice: Interrogating Bioethics
Channel: HMS Center for Bioethics
Date: 2021-11-22

2021 George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics presented by Patricia A. King, JD, Professor Emerita, Georgetown University Law Center. 

The George W. Gay Lecture is the oldest endowed lectureship at Harvard Medical School, and quite possibly the oldest medical ethics lectureship in the United States. The lectureship was established in 1917 by a $1,000 gift from Dr. George Washington Gay, an 1868 graduate of HMS. Gay gave Harvard the fund to provide an annual income to support lectures “to the advanced, or graduating classes in the Medical School upon Medical Ethics, and upon wise and proper methods of conducting the business of physicians, as relates to fees, collections, investments, etc.” The Gay Lectureship perpetuates his deep concern for the welfare of his patients and his appreciation of the constantly arising social and economic forces that impinge on medical care.

For more information about the annual lecture hosted by the Center for Bioethics, please visit https://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/events/lectures/gay-lecture