We are going to ASBH! We have two presentations this year, one panel presentation and one paper presentation.
Our panel presentation is titled, “A New Social Contract for Biobanking: The Benefits and Challenges of Using Public Deliberation to Ground Trustworthy Research.” This presentation will be hosted by our Director, Peter Schwartz, our Post-Doctoral Fellow, Tom Doyle, and our Program Manager, Nicolas Oliver. We’ll be exploring the context to our project, the history of biobanking and the issues we are trying to address.. Then, we will discuss the various methods of public deliberations and why we made the choices we did in the design of our project. Finally, we will reveal our results and their implications. We hope to see you there (On Thursday at 9:15 CT), and you can find us on the official schedule here: https://cdmcd.co/qdBJW6!
Additionally, our Post-Doctoral Fellow Tom Doyle will be doing a paper presentation Thursday afternoon titled, “Humanity Imagined: A Bioethical Reflection on Edith Stein's Phenomenology of Empathy” Tom will discuss the value of empathy and its utility in a modern healthcare setting. He contends that skepticism regarding empathy is due to the emphasis on its measurement and assessment and instead proposes using Stein’s conceptualization of empathy to focus on the activity itself. Check out the full abstract on the schedule here: https://cdmcd.co/wjyJmk and come to his presentation at 3PM CT!
