Can Legal Theory Save the Life of Healthcare Ethics?

The University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB) has been a global leader in bioethics for over 20 years. We are an Ethics Observatory dedicated to addressing complex ethical issues of contemporary health systems through bioethics research, education and practice in partnership with other academic and health sector institutions. At the JCB, we put theory into practice.

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Full Title: Can Legal Theory Save the Life of Healthcare Ethics? A chat about the practice of practising healthcare ethicistsSpeaker:Dr. Ann M. Heesters, MA, PhD (Phil.) Senior Director, Department of Clinical and Organizational Ethics, UHN Education Investigator 2, TIER (The Institute for Education Research) Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health Member, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of TorontoJason Lesandrini, FACHE, LPEC, HEC-C AVP Ethics, Advance Care Planning and Spiritual Health Wellstar Development CenterAbstractAlthough ethics consultation has had a place in healthcare for many decades, the nature of the work is not well understood by many of its critics as well as its defenders. Practising Healthcare Ethicists (PHEs) have been described as compromised and ineffectual, politicised and undemocratic, and their promise to offer sound advice has been deemed irredeemably incoherent in the context of value pluralism. In a recent book, Ann Heesters has argued that attention to debates familiar to legal theorists (the relationship between law and morality, and the supposed tension between democracy, and the role of an expert judiciary) can help PHEs to engage critics with a renewed confidence and some fresh approaches to perennial, and hitherto unproductive, arguments.Jason Lesandrini, a PHE, who is also a health care executive and AVP of Ethics in a large American Healthcare system will be joining Ann in a conversation about these claims, and will offer a glimpse into his own reasons for believing that there is reason for optimism about the future of the field.Additional Details:The event is free and is open to the general public.The direct link to the seminar will be sent out to registered participants 2 hours before the event. The JCB Bioethics Seminars are now being live-streamed to our <a href="https://youtube.com/channel/UCV1FanK51llV351jZq5K-gA" title="https://youtube.com/channel/UCV1FanK51llV351jZq5K-gA" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">YouTube channel</a>. If you don't receive the link 2 hours before the event, please head over there and click on the live stream. Subscribe to our channel to receive notices of upcoming events.Questions?Please email Terry Yuen, jcb.ea@utoronto.ca.

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