Wednesday January 23rd

10 am
The Ethics of Governmental Assistance for Medical Processes

Sheldon Smith, Professor, Accounting
Glade K. Tew, School of Business, BYU-Hawaii


11am
Ethics of Circumcision : A Panel Discussion

Jeff Bulger, Associate Professor, Philosophy & Humanities
 Elaine Englehardt, Distinguished Professor, Philosophy & Humanities
Jennifer Howard, adjunct, Philosophy & Humanities
Whitney May (UVSC Senior)

12
Lunch Break

1pm
Ethics of Patient Treatment

“Have a Living Will?  When is the last time you actually read it?”
Dianne McAdams-Jones, Assistant Professor, Nursing and Karen Thomas, Instructor, Nursing

“Distribution of Scarce Resources” Nolan Lickey, Professor, Business Management

2 pm
Ethics of Illness Narratives: Why Story Telling is Important The Medical

Lee Ann Mortensen, Moderator
Joyce Youse: "Ghosts Shave Heads"and “My Child Had Cancer”
Tyler Raymond: “It Started with a Waffle”
Virginia Van Patten: “My Breasts”
Wendy Andreason: “Smile” and “Winter”

Science and reason are often seen as the antitheses of the pathos found in personal narrative.  Thus illness narratives, or “Pathographies,” may not seem like an important part of a future physician’s education.  Stories can’t cure you of cancer, now can they?  However, personal narratives are being used more and more in medical schools to help future doctors have a much stronger sense of what their patients, and their patients’ families, might be going through.  It is this potential for empathy, for seeing the larger picture, that is central for medical ethics.  Arthur Frank, the author of Wounded Storyteller, says that story telling is a “personal, social, and ethical act [that] . . . transforms ‘fate’ into narration and action.”  Frank also says that along with the necessary “ethical voice” bearing witness to illness comes the ethical responsibility to listen to that voice.  This panel will feature the “ethical voices” of UVSC student “pathographies.”

3.pm

Medical and Scientific Ethics in Literature

"A Doctors Dilemma in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition," Ryan Simmons, Assistant Professor English & Literature

"A World of Made Is Not a World of Born": Bioethics as Plot and Warning in Literature and Film,"  Rob Carney, Associate Professor, English and Literature

"The Brain Surgeon and the Hooligan: Medical Ethics and Ian McEwan’s Saturday," Brian Whaley, Assistant Professor, English & Literature



Thursday January 24th

10-11:15
Ethical Dimensions in Genetic Destiny

"Designing babies to serve as donors?"
Janiel Green, Student, Biology and Olga Kopp, Assistant Professor, Biology

"Being Post-Human: Genetic Technology and the Distortion of Natural Selection"
David R. Keller, Associate Professor, Philosophy and Humanities

11:30- 12:45
Lunch Break

1:00-2:15
Ethics and Organ Donation: A Panel Discussion

Farid Islam, Associate Professor, Finance and Economics
Nancy Rushforth, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Terry Sundberg, Certified Funeral Director
Ruhul Kuddus, Assistant Professor, Biology