Going online for the first time, the latest instalment of the Roundtable brings together over fifty speakers from six continents to present the latest philosophical thinking on topics including:
- Medicine and artificial intelligence
- Ageing
- Nature of health
- Classification of disease
- Disability and neurodiversity studies
- Epistemic injustice in medicine
- Medical research
- Epidemiology
- Population health
- Social justice in medicine
- ...and many more.
Keynote speakers
Sandro Galea, Robert A. Knox professor and dean at the Boston University School of Public Health
Maël Lemoine, Professor of Philosophy and leader of the ImmunoConcept project at Bordeaux University
Jerome Wakefield, Professor at NYU Silver as well as an NYU University Professor with multidisciplinary appointments
Sarah Wieten, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Durham University
Schedule
All times British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Day 1: Thu 9 May
08:45 Open for login
09:00 Welcome
09:15 Keynote: Maël Lemoine
10:45 Break (short)
11:00 Submitted papers
12:30 Break (long)
13:30 Submitted papers
15:00 Break (short)
15:15 Keynote: Sandro Galea
16:45 End of Day 1
Day 2: Fri 10 May
09:00 Open for login
09:15 Keynote: Sarah Wieten
10:45 Break (short)
11:00 Submitted papers
12:30 Break (long)
13:30 Submitted papers
15:00 Break (short)
15:15 Keynote: Jerome Wakefield
16:45 Closing remarks
17:00 End of Conference
Publications
Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special section of Philosophy of Medicine.
Hosts
The event is hosted by the Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Public Health, a joint enterprise between Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities and the University of Johannesburg's Faculty of Humanities.
About the Roundtable
The International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable is an open group of philosophers, clinicians, epidemiologists, social scientists, statisticians, bioethicists, and anyone else with an interest in epistemological and ontological issues connected with medicine.
