The UW Department of Philosophy and the Program on Values in Society present a day-long symposium:
Dying Hopes: Understanding Hope in the Face of Death
Friday April 4, 2008
The symposium brings together scholars working on the appropriate role of hope in care of the dying. The aim is to clarify our understanding of the phenomenon of hope, its objects in the context of dying, and its use – both positive and negative – in managing patient care and clinical research.
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Session I: 10 – 11:45 a.m.
Speaker: Jodi Halpern (MD/PhD, University of California Berkeley)
Jodi Halpern holds an MD (psychiatry) and a PhD (philosophy) from Yale University. She works mainly on emotions and the imagination, with a longstanding focus on empathy and its role in the doctor-patient relationship. She is the author of From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice (Oxford University Press, 2001). Halpern recently received a Greenwall Foundation award to write about emotions and envisioning future well-being, and the impact of this on serious health decisions.
Commentator: Sarah Shannon (RN/PhD, UW Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems)
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Session II: 1:30-3:15 p.m.
Speaker: Adrienne Martin (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)
Adrienne Martin held an NIH clinical bioethics fellowship before moving to her current position in the Department of Philosophy and Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work combines moral psychology with normative theory with specific moral questions in medicine. She has papers on hope and exploitation in clinical trials, and on hope and fantasy. Her work has been published in the Hastings Center Report, the American Journal of Bioethics, and Health Affairs.
Commentator: Anthony Back (MD, UW Department of Medicine)
Listen to: This Talk (mp3), Commentary on this talk (mp3), Q&A on this talk
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Session III: 3:30-5:15 p.m.
Speaker: Eric Cassell (MD, Weil Medical College, Cornell
Eric Cassell is internationally recognized for his work on the nature of suffering as well as moral problems in medicine, medical practice, and the care of chronically ill and dying. His books include The Healer’s Art (MIT Press), Talking with Patients (MIT Press), The Nature of Suffering (Oxford University Press), and Doctoring: the Nature of Primary Care Medicine (Oxford University Press).
Commentator: Ingra Schellenberg (PhD, UW Departments of Philosophy and Medical History and Ethics)
Listen to: This Talk (mp3), Commentary on this talk (mp3), Q&A on this talk (mp3)
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All sessions are free and open to the public, and will take place in Room 316R of the UW South Campus Center. For registration, go to http://depts.washington.edu/ponvins/Home.html or call 206-543-5855.
This symposium was made possible by support from the Rabinowitz endowment for medical ethics.
Limited parking will be available in the South Campus Center Garage (S1) for a day fee of $11, but may only be available to those who arrive early. Additional parking can be purchased by the Stadium, in lot E12 (also $11/day). We encourage attendees to consider taking the bus or other transportation options to avoid parking hassles.
To find parking:
From SR-520 eastbound or westbound, take the Montlake Blvd. exit. Turn north on Montlake Blvd. and continue north toward Husky Stadium. Turn right into Husky Stadium parking lot for E12 parking (pay at gatehouse). For parking in the south campus center garage, turn left from Montlake Blvd. on to NE Pacific Street. Continue on Pacific to 15th Ave. NE, and turn left (south). At the bottom of 15th Ave. NE, bear left onto NE Boat Street, and look for campus gatehouse #6. Stop there to purchase a parking permit, and get directions for the south campus center.
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