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The Medical Ethics of Consciousness

February 20, 2020

Humanities Research Center , Rice University

Rice University
Houston
United States

This will be an accessible event, including organized related activities

Organisers:

Rice University

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Program:

10-11:20 Diane O'Leary (Western Ontario), "The value of consciousness in medicine"
11:20-12:40 Andrea Lavazza (Arezzo, Italy), "What human brain-organoid research teaches us about consciousness and its value"
2:00-3:30 Tim Bayne (Monash), Sunil Kothari (Memorial Hermann hospital), and Christos Lazaridis (Chicago): round-table discussion on consciousness and patients in permanent vegetative state
3:45-5 Lan Li (Rice), "Heavy hearts: Cognition, emotion, and the mind in Chinese medicine"

Is registration required? Yes

Registration deadline: February 19, 2020, 12:00pm CST

How to register:

Diana Gumiel

(unaffiliated)

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