Ethics & the Business of Biomedicine
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
April 6 - 8, 2006
Central to current national discourse are concerns about ethics, costs, and profits in relation to health care. These concerns are driven by major shifts in health care that took place during the 20th century. These shifts include the transformation of the professional practice of medicine from a service orientation to a market orientation; the emergence of powerful pharmaceutical and health care corporations; and development and new, innovative, and expensive biomedical technologies by for profit enterprises. While there are interesting public policy dimensions to this discourse, sound public policy decisions must be informed by careful attention to foundational questions about the specific values (e.g., distribute justice, rights, human dignity, and community welfare) that inform, or should inform organizational decisions and public policy judgments. This conference will focus on foundational questions concerning values in relation to the business of medicine. Conference papers will focus on such topics as:
Ethical issues concerning the pharmaceutical industry such as marketing; pricing; and research and development of life-savings drugs most needed by people in the developing world.
Ethical issues concerning the purposes and function of HMOs, insurance companies, and physician practice groups, such as pricing, capitation, resource scarcity, and appropriate standards of care.
Confirmed Academic Participants
Denis G. Arnold, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Tom Beauchamp, Georgetown University
Norman E. Bowie, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
George Brenkert, Georgetown University
Daniel Callahan, Harvard University and The Hastings Center
Norman Daniels, Harvard University
Richard T. De George, University of Kansas
Carl Elliott, University of Minnesota
John Hardwig, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
George Khushf, University of South Carolina
Paul T. Menzel, Pacific Lutheran University
E. Haavi Morreim, University of Tennessee , Memphis
Mary V. Rorty, Stanford University
Patricia Werhane, DePaul University and University of Virginia
Daniel Wikler, Harvard University
Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University
Apologies for cross-postings.
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Denis G. Arnold, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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