Utilitarisme et médecine

Utilitarianism and Medicine. Past and Present Perspectives

Workshop

11 May 2016

Durtham University

Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study

9:30am            Arrival and tea/coffee

10am        Introduction

10:15am           Panel 1

                  Commentator: Matthew Daniel Eddy

                  David Knight (Durham)

                  Laughing Gas, Materialism, Blasphemy and Coleridge's Theory of Life

                  Tom Rossetter (Durham)

                  Paternalism, Utilitarianism and the Insanity Plea in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain

12pm        Break

12:30pm     Panel 2

                  Commentator: Nancy Cartwright

                  Cathy Gere (University of California, San Diego)

                  The Monkey in the Panopticon: Utilitarianism and Neuroscience in Nineteenth-Century  Britain

                  Cheryl Lancaster (Durham)

                  Utilitarian approaches to past and present stem cell research

2:15pm            Tea/coffee break

2:45pm            Panel 3

Commentator: Prof Andreas Holger Maehle

                  Aleksandra Traykova (Durham)

                  Quantifying Disease Then and Now: Utilitarianism, 19th Century Science and Disease Objectification in Medicine

                  Sophia Efstathiou (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

                  Use Your Mind: Exercises in Positive Thinking from Early 20th Century Until Now

4:15pm            Close                           

Contact: Nicola Craigs (n.j.craigs@durham.ac.uk)