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A symposium sponsored by:

The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium (GPPC)

Temple University Center for Urban Bioethics and Humanities

Temple University Department of Philosophy

CHAIRS:

Miriam Solomon, Temple University

W. Mark Goodwin, Rowan University

SPEAKERS:

• Sherwin Nuland, MD, Yale University.  Surgeon, bioethicist, historian of medicine and author.  Topic: “Half a Millennium of Artists Portraying Diseases and Healers: 1500-2000”

• Hilde Lindemann, PhD, Michigan State University.  Professor of Philosophy, President of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Fellow of the Hastings Center, author of many books and edited anthologies. Topic: “Caring and Coercion: What Counts as Autonomy at the End of Life?”

• Rebecca Kukla, PhD, University of South Florida.  Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Co-Coordinator of International Network for Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FABNET), author. Topic: “Paper is Complete – Author TBD: The Death of the Author in Contemporary Biomedical Research”

• Scott Burris, JD, Professor of Law at Temple Law School and Associate Director of the Centers for Law and the Public's Health:  A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. He was the editor of the first systematic legal analysis of HIV in the United States, AIDS and the Law: A Guide for the Public (Yale University Press, 1987; New Guide for the Public published 1993), and spent several years lobbying and litigating on behalf of people with HIV as an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union. Topic:  When ‘Ethics’ Becomes ‘Law’”