Values in Action is the focus of a reading and booksigning by Joan McIver Gibson, retired senior bioethicist from the HSC Institute for Ethics, and Mark D. Bennett, part time faculty, School of Law. They will read from and sign their new book, “A Field Guide to Good Decisions: Values in Action,” Wednesday, June 21, from 4 – 6 p.m. in the Nursing/Pharmacy Auditorium, Room 135.
The UNM Bookstore will have copies of the book available for purchase on-site.
Gibson and Bennett have more than 20 years of experience working with people and organizations facing difficult decisions. The book is a practical guide to making tough choices in a number of different settings where important values collide: family, profession, neighborhood, community and government.
Gibson retired in 2003 as director of the HSC ethics program and chair of the St. Joseph Hospital’s ethics committee. Bennett works with organizations and teaches mediation at the School of Law. Together they consult on decision-making with clients nationally and internationally including Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs, Centura Health System in Colorado, the New Mexico Department of Health and the U.S. Department of the Interior.