Arts & Sciences Walsh Seminar Series, Co-sponsored with Bioethics Minor Speaker Series
Wednesday, April 19th at 12 pm
Room: SC 362 or register to attend on Zoom
BIOETHICS, BIOPSYCHOSOCIALISM, AND SOCIAL ETHICS
Abstract:
In the curricular economy of most American medical schools, bioethics as a subject of instruction has competed for the limited number of non-biomedical hours commonly called biopsychosocial instruction, with medical ethics increasingly displacing biopsychosocial approaches since both focus on non-biomedical dimensions but bioethics does it less controversially. Both subjects, however, have drawn attention away from social ethics that focuses, among other issues, on differential access to quality medical care depending on patients’ gender, race, or social class. This talk will not only differentiate these three approaches and trace the historical competition between them but also makes the case that social ethics have gotten the shortest shrift yet today and deserves considerably more attention.
Bio:
Theodore M. Brown, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus of History in the School of Arts and Sciences and of Public Health Sciences in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester. His research includes the history of U.S., international, and global medicine and public health; the history of U.S. health policy and politics; the health left and its role in both domestic and international health policy; the influence of organized philanthropy on medicine and public health; and the history of psychosomatic medicine, “stress” research, and biopsychosocial approaches to clinical practice. In 2013 (with Anne-Emanuelle Birn) he published a coedited and coauthored book on American health internationalists in the 20th century. Along with Marcos Cueto and Elizabeth Fee, he completed a history of The World Health Organization: A History published by Cambridge University Press in April 2019. This November, the American Public Health Association will publish Public Health Then and Now: Landmark Papers from the American Journal of Public Health, an anthology of historical papers, which he has selected and introduced. With Marcos Cueto and Niels Brimnes, he is currently working on a biography of Halfdan Mahler, Director General of WHO from 1973 to 1988. During the past year, he has overseen the publication in AJPH of several historical essays putting Covid-19 into historical perspective.
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