Wednesday, March 5th: Waide Center Seminar | "Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics"

Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby

Date: Wednesday, March 5th

Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Title: “Good Ethics and Bad Choices: 

The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics”

Zoom link: https://fairfield.zoom.us/j/95197924493

Event will be held remotely, via Zoom, and is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members.

About the Speaker: Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby is the Cullen Professor of Medical Ethics and the Associate Director for the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Baylor College of Medicine. Her research focuses primarily on the philosophical and ethical questions raised by research on human judgment and decision-making, as well as on ethical and philosophical issues in psychiatry, neurology, neuroscience, and AI ethics in healthcare. She is the author of Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics (MIT Press). Dr. Blumenthal-Barby has served as a member on the American Philosophical Association Committee on Philosophy of Medicine, was co-founder of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Medical Decision-Making Affinity Group, and an alumnus of the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. She is currently an Associate Editor for the The American Journal of Bioethics and previously served on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. In 2023, she was elected as a Hastings Center Fellow. 

About the series: The Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series is a forum for building community and advancing research in Applied Ethics. It encourages jargon-free and supportive discussions that will be accessible to participants with serious interest in applied ethics and who come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. Invited speakers in the series present a work-in-progress or recently published paper on topics relevant to applied ethics. The seminars aim to provide speakers with feedback on their current research projects. At least half of each meeting is devoted to Q&A and general discussion. Please contact the Director of the Waide Center for Applied Ethics, Gregg D. Caruso, for more information.