Attend the Toronto Bioethics Workshop!

The second Toronto Bioethics Workshop will be taking place on Friday, May 23rd and Saturday, May 24th at the Centre for Ethics! Please RSVP here.

This year’s theme is public bioethics. For this theme, we couldn’t have found a better keynote speaker than Katie Engelhart, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine who won the Pulitzer Prize last year. Katie is also the author of The Inevitable: Dispatches on The Right to Die. Her talk is called “The Moral of the Story: Reporting from the Frontline of Bioethics”.

Here’s the rest of the lineup:

Peter Zuk – “Mental Privacy, Self-Expression, and Hermeneutical Injustice”
Lukas Meier – “Your Automated Clinical Ethicist Will See You Now”
Prabhpal Singh – “Resisting Commonsense and Taking Abortion Rights Seriously”
Mark Ornelas & Carmen Taylor – “Treating Sickle Cell Disease: An ethical case study for base-pair gene editing”
Emily Slome – “Decision Ownership and Deference to Healthcare AI”
Andy Baldassarre – “Pain Management as a Failed Proxy for Wellbeing”
Adelle Goldenberg – “A Pro-Choice, Anti-Ableist Abortion Politics”

You can find the full schedule and other info here. If you have questions, simply reply or comment on this post. If you’re a grad or undergrad student and would like to join the speakers for lunch, please let me know.

I’m tremendously grateful to the St. George and University of Toronto Scarborough departments of philosophy and the Joint Centre for Bioethics for their support.

Please RSVP at the link and tell your colleagues!