Call
For Registration
Workshop:
Particularism and Personalised Medicine
Manchester
Metropolitan University, 7-8 January 2015
Venue:
New Business School, G.33 Lecture Theatre 4, MMU All Saints Campus
Organiser: Dr Anna Bergqvist, a.bergqvist@mmu.ac.uk
Website: https://appliedparticularism.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/january-workshop-particularism-and-personalised-medicine/
Speakers
Dr Anna Bergqvist, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Professor Per Nortvedt, University of Oslo.
Dr Anne Raustøl, Diakonhjemmet University
College Oslo.
Dr Benedict Smith, Durham University
Professor Tim Thornton, University of Central Lancashire.
Dr Anna Zielinska, CERSES Sorbonne.
Project Outline
This two-day workshop builds on our previous networking workshop on the
topic Particularism in Bioethics,
Professional Ethics and Medicine at MMU in Manchester (June 2014).
Our focus this time is Particularism and Personalised Medicine, focussing on conceptual issues and
different research strategies for incorporating “personalised care” in public
health care provision in Europe with a view to effect a comparative study of
the prospects for applied particularism in the different national locations.
Traditionally conceived, the core of professional ethics
and medical epistemology consists of impartial and universal ethical
principles, e.g., non-maleficence and respect for autonomy. These principles
are supposed to apply to all moral agents. But patients, health care
professionals and clinical settings differ in many and in crucial respects. One
problem of the principled approach is to how to account for the ways in which
impartial and universal principles are supposed to be sensitive contextual
parameters such individual attitudes, cultural aspects and situational
differences. Moral particularism is a philosophical tradition that is well
equipped to make sense of how health care can be personalised in a context
sensitive way. According to particularists, moral thought and
judgement neither need nor should be principle-based but rather requires the
exercise of discernment in a case-by-case basis. It is high time to move this
theoretical debate into a wider, more practical context.
After long
having been neglected, the possibility of applied moral particularism is once
again being given serious consideration. For instance, there
has been a strong emphasis on
partiality and the development of personal relationships in the field of
bioethics and professional ethics. Elsewhere in clinical medicine, there has
been a renewed interest in the methodology of narrative medicine, personalised (or precision) models of medicine
and value based practice. Nationally
in the UK, in view of the Francis Report and the Secretary of State for
Health’s initial response to the crisis in the Mid-Staffordshire Trust, the
language of discernment, compassion,
engagement and context which
drives and motivates the distinctive particularist approach is becoming
increasingly important as a focus for debates over the moral and vocational
nature of health care and nursing ethics.
The workshop will
bring together emerging and established scholars who have made notable
contributions to the reception of moral particularism in applied philosophy and
the health care profession.
The workshop also
serves as the inaugural workshop of the international research consortium Particularism in Bioethics, Professional
Ethics and Medicine, directed by Anna Bergqvist, ccomprising
Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), Durham University (UK), Uppsala
University (Sweden), University of Oslo and Diakonhjemmet University College
(Norway), Tilburg University (The Netherlands), CERSES Paris 1 Sorbonne
(France). More information about the project can
be found here:
Workshop Schedule
Wednesday 7th January
2015
9.30 – 10.00 Welcome and Registration
10.00 – 11.30 Anna Bergqvist (MMU): ‘Narrative
Understanding, Value and Perspective: A Particularist Response to Fulford’
11.30 – 11.45 Tea and Coffee
11.45 – 13.15 Benedict Smith (Durham): ‘Particularism and
Persons’
13.15 – 14.45 Lunch
14.45 – 16.15 Tim Thornton (UCLan): TBA
16.15 – 16.30 Tea and Coffee
16.30 – 18.00 Anne Raustøl (Oslo,
Diakonhjemmet): ‘Compassion and Clinical Reasoning’
19.00 Dinner at Kro Bar (at self cost), 325
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PG
Thursday 8th January
2015
10.00 – 11.30 Anna Zielinska (Sorbonne) ‘Holism Without
Principles: Decision Making in Ethics Committees in France,
Germany and the UK’
11.30 – 11.45 Tea and Coffee
11.45 – 13.15 Per Nortvedt (Oslo, UiO): ‘Particularism
– a Relevant Perspective in Bioethics?’
13.15 – 14.30 Lunch and Roundtable Discussion
14.30 – 17.00 General meeting and networking
activities of the consortium Particularism
in Bioethics, Professional Ethics and Medicine.
17.00 Workshop Close
Financial Support
The organisers gratefully acknowledge the generous support of
the Wellcome Trust and Manchester Metropolitan University Research and
Knowledge Exchange.
Workshop Registration
Attendance is free and open to all. Registration by email
to Dr Anna Bergqvist.
