About the lecture
Does everyone deserve the world’s highest quality health tests and treatments? Is it ever ethical to provide people with less effective or more toxic care? Similarly, is the Declaration of Helsinki right in requiring all new interventions be tested against the world’s “best proven intervention(s)”? What about the WHO, which provides conflicting advice?
Despite decades of debate, these questions, and the larger dilemma of health care quality, remain unsolved. Through examination of such cases as anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS and cervical cancer screening, Dr. Emanuel will defend the controversial position that it can be ethical to provide less effective or more toxic treatments.
- Chair: Trygve Ottersen
- Commentator: Jan Helge Solbakk
About Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Dr. Emanuel is an American oncologist and bioethicist and fellow at the American think tank Centre for American Progress. Dr.Emanuel is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Until January 2011, he served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council.
Selected publications
- The Ends of Human Life
- Why I hope to Die at 75 - Atlantic
- Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
- The ethics of expanding access to cheaper, less effective treatments, The Lancet
Registration
The guest lecture is free and open for all. Please register due to ordering of light refreshments.