A Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics
Date: Friday April 13, 2018, 9.45am-5.00pm
Location: Waterfront Activities Center of the University of Washington, Great Room
Medical Ethics has often focused on the relationships between patients and healthcare workers. And yet much healthcare and social support comes from, or is expected from, family, friends and the community. Additionally, treatment decision-making does not fall to patients alone – e.g. guardians may make decisions about continuing or halting treatment. How should we understand the roles of these groups in providing care and support? Which communities or forms of support are most meaningful? What role should the state and citizens play in comparison to families and friends? Who should be included in medical decision-making? Who counts as ‘family’ and should ‘family’ really count?
This one-day interdisciplinary symposium poses and aims to answer questions of these kind, focusing particularly on patients or care-givers who are vulnerable, marginalized or oppressed.
To register, please click on this link: Registration. Or email ponvins@uw.edu for access to the link.
Schedule:
09.45-10.15am: Welcome
10.15am-12.15pm: Who Cares? Images and Realities of Family Caregiving
1.15-3.15pm: Support and its Lack: Race, Gender, Diversities
3.30-5.00pm: Keynote Speech, Spring Philosophy Colloquium and Charles W. Bodemer Lecture:
‘Why Families Matter’, Hilde Lindemann (Professor Emerita, Michigan State University)
Organized by: Carina Fourie, Gina Campelia and Blake Hereth (University of Washington), in conjunction with THINK – The Health and Inequality Network
The generous sponsors of the Symposium are: the Benjamin Rabinowitz Endowment in Medical Ethics, the Program on Values in Society, the Charles W. Bodemer Fund at the Department of Bioethics and Humanities, and the Department of Philosophy, all at the University of Washington.