Appignani Foundation Lectures on Science, Reason & Secular Ethics

The Ethics of Health Care
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Paper: 7:00 pm; Learning Center, Room 130.
Reception: Ashe Building, Room 735, following the discussion.

As medical costs skyrocket and health care reform takes center stage in the Presidential campaign, our distinguished panel of speakers address a variety of questions about the ethics of health care. What is the most just way to distribute public health care resources? How important are efficiency and quality-of-life considerations in the public financing of health care, especially with respect to end-of-life care? What obligations does society have towards providing health care to the poor and the uninsured? How does health care in the US compare to health care in other developed nations? Please join us for a lively dialogue on these and related issues, led by UM President Donna Shalala and distinguished philosophers Norman Daniels and Jonathan Wolff.

Donna Shalala
President
University of Miami

Norman Daniels
Mary B. Saltonstall Professor,
Professor of Ethics and Population Health
Harvard University

Jonathan Wolff
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy
University College London

* Take US-1 to Granada Blvd., then Granada Blvd. west across University Drive to Pisano Ave. The parking lot is to your left across from Doctors Hospital

The Department of Philosophy gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of the Louis J. Appignani Foundation.