| These lectures address diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Speakers are MH&B faculty or special guests we've invited to present. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building, during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. Due to public interest, we've made these lectures open to all, inside and outside the Northwestern community. Please feel free to bring a lunch. |
Embracing Conflict Resolution: Its Place within Bioethics, Medical Humanities, and Medical EducationThursday, January 28, 2010 This lecture discusses conflict resolution as its own discipline, and where its place may be in medical education and bioethics. I will share my personal reflections of how my views on this subject have evolved and how what was once such an easy question for me to answer, now requires more consideration. The Promise of Bioethics Mediation: The Case for a Transformative Approach to Bioethics MediationThursday, April 15 , 2010 Mediation skills are invaluable tools for a clinical ethicist – that much is clear – but bioethics mediation, as the preferable model for ethics consultation is often criticized by ethicists because of the fear that the search for consensus may overshadow the search for the ethically appropriate. This talk does not address that controversy. Rather, Mr. Pauley, speaking from a mediator's perspective, suggests that bioethics mediation undercuts core mediation principles almost to a point where one may not recognize the process as mediation. If we are going to truly mediate a bioethics issue, what is the best way to do so? Mr. Pauley suggests a transformative approach to bioethics mediation, one that focuses more on changing the nature of the participant's relationship and less on the actual resolution of the ethical dilemma. Counterintuitive? Yup. Practical? Perhaps. The Ethics of Physician Negotiation: Casting a “Moral Anchor” – Medical Recommendations as First OffersThursday, April 22, 2010 Anchors occur in negotiations when one negotiator takes the initiative to make the first offer on the negotiated matter, which "anchors" the value in the mind of their negotiation counterpart. Thereafter, adjustments are made from that first anchor until agreement is reached. Anchors help determine how close we can come to our ideal negotiated outcome; they also affect the course of the entire negotiation. As doctors negotiate over difficult treatment decisions, and life and death issues, their recommendations can create anchors. This talk develops a framework for casting a "moral" anchor in which physician can use to weather the rocky waters of some patient-family conversations.
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