Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics Seminar
- Time:
- 14:00
- Date:
- 14 March 2018
- Venue:
- 65/1111, Avenue Campus, SO17 1BF
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Mary Andrew at m.j.andrew@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Please note that this event will only go ahead if the UCU strike scheduled for that date is cancelled.
Speaker information
Dr Elselijn Kingma,Elselijn's main research interests are in philosophy of medicine (concepts of health and disease and the epistemology of Evidence Based Medicine); applied ethics (rights, interests and obligations in pregnancy and birth); and metaphysics (the metaphysics of pregnancy, identity and personhood). She has published on these topics in philosophy journals, medical journals, and the popular press, and offers research-based advice to policy makers, professional organisations and other groups involved in the care of pregnant women.
Professor Dan Hausman, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Interests: Questions concerning the concept of health, the allocation of health care resources, and the role of preferences in measuring health and setting policy.