Past Events Archive
2017
Palliative Care Exceptionalism? A Broader Perspective on End of Life Care and Modern Medicine
- Jochen Vollmann, MD, PhD, Ruhr University Bochum
Palliative care is an innovative and growing field focusing on life-threatening illness and on the relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical,…
Is There a Legal Privilege to Waive Consent for Research?
- Jon Merz, MBA, JD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Waivers of informed consent for research participation are permitted under the Common Rule as well as the Exception from Informed Consent (EFIC) for emergency research rule. We examine waivers as embodiments of legal privilege, which…
The Digital Mental Health Industry: New Problems, New Solutions, New Practices
- Emma Bedor Hiland, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota
As our day-to-day lives are increasingly reliant upon (and enmeshed with) digital platforms, it is not surprising that the ways we address and manage our health generally, and mental health in particular, are increasingly digitized as well…
Violence and Health Injustice Series: Dismantling Campus Rape Culture
- Katie Eichele, MS, University of Minnesota
- Tina Marisam, JD, University of Minnesota
- Jennifer Porter, University of Minnesota
- Stef Wilenchek, MEd, University of Minnesota
- Sarah Super, Break the Silence
- Abeer Syedah, University of Minnesota
This year-long series examined the politics and health outcomes of marginalized communities’ experiences with State violence within and beyond the United States. Across three events highlighting the intersections of race and police…
Life Support: When is Enough, Enough?
- Deborah Day Laxson, Author
How does a non-medically trained individual respond when life support no longer supports life? Using her own real life example, Deborah brought the audience on her journey as she learned to navigate the complexities of the medical world in…
Bioethics and the Crisis of Global Ecology
- Steven Miles, MD, University of Minnesota
A disappearing arctic ice cap. Rising oceans. Once in a century floods are occurring annually, even as deserts expand. Plastic and chemicals cover the seas and lands. Pollinating bees are disappearing as agriculture defends the chemicals…
Food Justice
- Michelle Horovitz, JD, Appetite for Change
- Princess Titus, Appetite for Change
The cofounders of Appetite For Change, a nonprofit organization based in North Minneapolis told their stories of how they came to the work of Food Justice. Michelle, a recovering Public Defender with a Bioethics degree and Princess, a…