Scope and Contents Contains the medals for the Thomas Linacre Award and the Pope John XXI International Prize for Medical Ethics, both received by Laforet, as well as copies of the publications which won him the awards. Laforet was awarded the Thomas Linacre Award in 1959 for his publication "Boxing: Medical and Moral Aspects" (1958). "The 'Hopeless' Case," first presented at the International Congress of Catholic Doctors in London in 1962, won Laforet the Pope John XXI International Prize for Medical Ethics...

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Features materials from two conferences Laforet helped organize - the Annual Greater Boston Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Boston College and a bioethics forum co-sponsored by Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Boston College - as well as attendance packets from bioethics conferences hosted by universities around the country.

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Collection is open for research.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Features materials from two conferences Laforet helped organize - the Annual Greater Boston Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Boston College and a bioethics forum co-sponsored by Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Boston College - as well as attendance packets from bioethics conferences hosted by universities around the country.

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Collection is open for research.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Features materials from two conferences Laforet helped organize - the Annual Greater Boston Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Boston College and a bioethics forum co-sponsored by Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Boston College - as well as attendance packets from bioethics conferences hosted by universities around the country.

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Collection is open for research.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Features materials from two conferences Laforet helped organize - the Annual Greater Boston Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Boston College and a bioethics forum co-sponsored by Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Boston College - as well as attendance packets from bioethics conferences hosted by universities around the country.

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Collection is open for research.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Features materials from two conferences Laforet helped organize - the Annual Greater Boston Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Boston College and a bioethics forum co-sponsored by Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Boston College - as well as attendance packets from bioethics conferences hosted by universities around the country.

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Collection is open for research.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Features materials from two conferences Laforet helped organize - the Annual Greater Boston Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Boston College and a bioethics forum co-sponsored by Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Boston College - as well as attendance packets from bioethics conferences hosted by universities around the country.

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Collection is open for research.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Features materials from two conferences Laforet helped organize - the Annual Greater Boston Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Boston College and a bioethics forum co-sponsored by Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Boston College - as well as attendance packets from bioethics conferences hosted by universities around the country.

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Contains correspondence pertaining to Laforet's writing, his seminar, and his general interest in bioethics topics.

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Contains drafts of the ethics workbook edited by Laforet based on the subjects taught in his Boston College seminar on medical ethics. Also included is correspondence with contributors to the workbook and potential publishers.

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