Meet the Expert Sessions
Thursday, October 12, 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Keisha Ray – Author, Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People’s Health (Oxford, 2023)
Black Health provides a succinct discussion of Black people's health, including the social, political, and at times cultural determinants of their health. Using real stories from Black people, Ray examines the ways in which Black people's multiple identities--social, cultural, and political--intersect with American institutions--such as housing, education, environmentalism, and health care--to facilitate their poor outcomes in pregnancy and birth, pain management, sleep, and cardiovascular disease. (Amazon.com)
Thaddeus Pope – Editor, Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely-Available Option for Hastening Death (Oxford 2021)
This volume provides a realistic, appropriately critical, yet supportive assessment of voluntary stopping eating and drinking (VSED). Eight illustrative, previously unpublished real cases are included, receiving pragmatic analysis in each chapter. The volume's integrated, multi-professional, multi-disciplinary character makes it useful for a wide range of readers: patients considering present or future end-of-life options and their families, clinicians of all kinds, ethicists, lawyers, and institutional administrators. (Amazon.com)
Friday, October 13, 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Connie Ulrich - Editor, Nurses and COVID-19: Ethical Considerations in Pandemic Care (2022)
This volume aims to bring conceptual clarity about moral distress and distinguish it from related concepts. Explicit attention is given to the voices and experiences of health care professionals from multiple disciplines and many parts of the world. Contributors explain the evolution of the concept of moral distress, sources of moral distress including those that arise at the unit/team and organization/system level, and possible solutions to address moral distress at every level. A liberal use of case studies make the phenomenon palpable to readers. (Amazon.com)
Dave Wendler – Author, Life without Degrees of Moral Status: Implications for Rabbits, Robots and the Rest of Us (Oxford 2023)
Degrees of moral status require moral status enhancing properties. However, the author argues that there are no moral status enhancing properties, and thus, no degrees of moral status. What implications does this conclusion have for how we should treat animals, whether it is acceptable to experiment on them and eat them for dinner? What implications does it have for how future advanced robots and genetically enhanced human beings ought to treat us? Would it be acceptable for them to conduct experiments on us, or eat us for dinner? Wendler's book addresses these and related questions. (Amazon.com)
