Coping with Capacity: Determining the limits of patient decision making.
4301 W Markam St
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COPING WITH CAPACITY: DETERMINING THE LIMITS OF PATIENT DECISION MAKING
Annual UAMS Intensive Healthcare Ethics Workshop
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Art Derse, MD, JD, FACEP
Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Medical Humanities
Director, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Medical College of Wisconsin
Jeffrey Spike, PhD
Samuel E. Karff Chair
Director, Campus-Wide Ethics Program
John P. McGovern, MD Center for Humanities and Ethics
WORKSHOP DIRECTOR
D. Micah Hester, PhD
Chief, Division of Medical Humanities, Clinical Ethicist
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Hospital
WORKSHOP LEADERS
Leah R. Eisenberg, JD, MA
Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities, Clinical Ethicist
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Thomas V. Cunningham, PhD, MA, MS
Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Internal Medicine, Clinical Ethicist
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Respect for autonomy is a central principle in medical ethics. Adults are presumed to have the ability to make intelligent decisions for themselves, and we are obligated to respect those decisions. However, the presumption of autonomy may not hold in every case—some individuals lack decisional capacity.
Importantly, then, we must ask: What is decisional capacity, and what does it mean to lack capacity? How can we determine when someone has “lost capacity,” whether or not they can get it back? Who is best positioned to evaluate capacity? If a person is deemed to lack capacity, how should s/he be treated? What ethical and legal implications follow when someone lacks capacity?
The UAMS Intensive Healthcare Ethics Workshop for 2016 will bring together scholars, clinicians, and ethics committee members to discuss ethical issues related to decision making capacity. The workshop is designed for a limited number of participants in order to be highly interactive, and will include keynote speakers, small group sessions, simulation-based learning, and paper and poster presentations.
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May 4, 2016, 5:00am CST
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