Second Toronto Bioethics Workshop
Friday May 23, 2025, 1:00 pm - Saturday May 24, 2025, 6:00 pm
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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
Adelle Goldenberg
A Pro-Choice, Anti-Ableist Abortion Politics
4:00–5:15 pm
Mark Ornelas & Carmen Taylor
Treating Sickle Cell Disease: An Ethical Case Study for Base-Pair Gene Editing
Saturday, May 24
9:00–10:15 am
Prabhpal Singh
Resisting Commonsense and Taking Abortion Rights Seriously
10:30–11:45 am
Emily Slome
TBD
BREAK
1:15–2:30 pm
Andrew J. Baldassarre
Pain Management as a Failed Proxy for Wellbeing
2:45–4:00 pm
Lukas J. Meier
Your Automated Clinical Ethicist Will See You Now
4:15–5:45 pm
Katie Engelhart (keynote speaker)
The Moral of the Story: Reporting from the Frontline of Bioethics
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