Second Toronto Bioethics Workshop

We are pleased to announce the second Toronto Bioethics Workshop for Friday, May 23 & Saturday, May 24, on U of T’s St. George (downtown) campus.

The theme of the workshop this year is public bioethics.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning  journalist Katie Engelhart, whose work focuses on medicine and ethics, will serve as this year’s keynote speaker.

Schedule

Friday, May 23

1:00–2:15 pm

Peter Zuk

Mental Privacy, Self-Expression, and Hermeneutical Injustice

2:30–3:45 pm

Lukas J. Meier

Your Automated Clinical Ethicist Will See You Now

4:00–5:15 pm

Adelle Goldenberg

A Pro-Choice, Anti-Ableist Abortion Politics

Saturday, May 24

9:00–10:15 am

Mark Ornelas & Carmen Taylor

Treating Sickle Cell Disease: An Ethical Case Study for Base-Pair Gene Editing

10:30–11:45 am

Wayne Sumner

What’s So Special about Medically Assisted Dying?

BREAK

1:15–2:30 pm

Andrew J. Baldassarre

Pain Management as a Failed Proxy for Wellbeing

2:45–4:00 pm

Prabhpal Singh

Resisting Commonsense and Taking Abortion Rights Serious

4:15–5:45 pm

Katie Engelhart (keynote speaker)

The Moral of the Story: Reporting from the Frontline of Bioethics