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Bioethics and the (im)materially entangled individual

Wednesday
May 25, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location

United States

Format
Virtual
Audience
All faculty and staff
Sponsors

The Center for Global Health Equity

In Northern Thailand, many critically ill patients consider themselves to be entangled or even hybridized with other beings through the karmic consequences of past actions. Using this case as a starting point, this talk examines the practice of bioethics in situations where individuals are inextricably entangled with one another, a common situation regardless of geography or cultural context. How can one practice normally individual rights-oriented ethics when one is always already partly the other?

Our panelists

Scott Stonington, MD, PhD

Scott Stonington, MD, PhD, is dual-trained in internal medicine and anthropology. He is associate professor of Anthropology, International Studies, and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He practices both primary care and hospital medicine in Southeast Michigan. He is author of The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand, which explores changes in the experience of the end of life resulting from the globalization of biomedical technologies and bioethics. He is also lead editor of the New England Journal of Medicine series Case Studies in Social Medicine, the first series in a major medical journal devoted to the social sciences. His current projects address pain management in Thailand and clinician-patient communication in Peru. CBSSM's Clinical Ethics Service sponsors the monthly Bioethics Grand Rounds. CME credit is available for Michigan Medicine faculty and staff. CME Credit 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit and 1.0 CEU for Social Work Available CME and CEU details.