The 5th Annual OSU Medical Ethics Conference "Enhancing and Modifying Health and Wellness: On the Limits of Medicine" will examine the limits of medicine and whether body enhancement and modification are ethically permissible or not.
The conference will cover such topics as genetic selection, gender dysphoria, athletic performance enhancement and related topics.
Keynote Speaker
Timothy F. Murphy, PhD, University of Illinois College of Medicine: “The Ethics of Body Modification for Gender Expression”
Other Speakers and Topics
• Elizabeth Palmer Kelly and Timothy Pawlik: “The Spiritual/Religious beliefs and needs of cancer survivors who underwent cancer-directed surgery”
• Ryan Nash: “Competing Visions of Health, A Response to Murphy”
• Matthew Vest: “Performance Enhancing Drugs and Ultrarunning: What the Seriousness of PEDS Tells us About Ourselves”
• Dana Howard: “Putting Parents on A Pedestal: Testimony, Admiration, and Epistemic Injustice”
• Larisa Svirsky and Martin Fried: “Opioid Contracts and Patient Accountability”
• Patricia Zettler: “Non-Therapeutics Uses and the FDA” Chauncey D. Leake Student Paper Winner: Phillip Wozniak: “Of Artificial Wombs and Actual Births: A Defense of the Biobag”
• Jason Chen: “The Medical Implications of Adopting a Theory of Well-Being”
Current Themes in Bioethics @ OSU
• Everly Jazi: “Nature Rx: Can Prescribing the Outdoors Help Reduce Health Disparities?”
• Jon Wispe: “What kind of person should a Christian physician be? One informed by a covenantal virtue.”
• Kathrynn Thompson: “The Ethics Resource Clinician Project”
Chauncey D. Leake Student Paper Finalists
• Ellie Suelwski: “Medical Ethics and International Patients”
• Alana Monzon: “The Case for Therapeutics Orphans in Humanitarian Reserarch”
• Tashi Gonggazhaxi: “A foresight dialogue: Uterus transplantation in and beyond cisgender women”
The 2019 OSU Medical Ethics Conference is hosted by the Center for Bioethics at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
To register, visit: https://ccme.osu.edu/ConferenceDetail.aspx?ID=2219