The Program

The Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare (ScattergoodEthics) is based at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and is dedicated to education, research, and resource development for the field of psychiatric, mental, and behavioral healthcare ethics. The program engages in scholarly research, trains and educates clinicians and scholars in mental and behavioral healthcare ethics, sponsors programs and public events, and promotes and advocates for greater attention to the ethical dimensions of diagnosis and treatment.  The ScattergoodEthics Program is funded by a grant from the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation and the Dean’s Office of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

 

The Center for Bioethics is a leader in bioethics research and its deployment in the ethical, efficient, and compassionate practice of the life sciences and medicine. Interdisciplinary research in bioethics at Penn is located in the Center. Under the leadership of its founding director, Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D., the Center has become a world-renowned educational and research enterprise that has appointed over twenty full and part-time faculty (Senior Fellows and Associates) with appointments in a number of University of Pennsylvania schools and departments including medicine, law, nursing, business, education, philosophy, psychology, sociology, religious studies and public policy.  The Center is the home to many interdisciplinary research projects, including behavioral healthcare ethics, stem cell research ethics, vaccine ethics, socially sensitive research in genetics, clinical ethics mediation, pediatric biobanking and high school bioethics education.