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'Values and Preferences': Examining the Language of Serious Illness and End of Life
Introduction:
On March 5, 2026, Justin Clapp, PhD, MPH, presented our most recent Bioethics Grand Rounds. In this talk, Dr. Clapp will examine this framing by interrogating the conceptions of mind, action, and interaction that underlie it. He'll suggest that it renders opaque many of the most interesting and ethically consequential dimensions of clinical interaction, illustrating this with findings from an ongoing multi-sited ethnographic study of communication in the medical intensive care unit.