Utilitarianism and Medicine: Past and Present Perspectives (Panel Discussion, Durham University, 11 May 2016)

9:30am Arrival and tea/coffee

10am Introduction

10:15am Panel 1

Commentator: TBA

David Knight (Durham)
Laughing Gas, materialism, Blasphemy and Coleridge’s Theory of Life

Tom Rossetter (Durham)
Paternalism, Utilitarianism and the Insanity Plea in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain

12pm Break

12:30pm Panel 2

Commentator: Prof Nancy Cartwright

Cathy Gere (University of California, San Diego)
The Monkey in the Panopticon:
Utilitarianism and Neuroscience in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Matthew Daniel Eddy (Durham)
Savage Minds:
Utility, Education and Sir John Lubbock’s Politics of Cognition

Cheryl Lancaster (Durham)
Utilitarian approaches to past and present stem cell research

2:15pm Tea/coffee break

2:45pm Panel 3

Commentator: Prof Andreas Holger Maehle

Aleksandra Traykova (Durham)
Quantifying Disease Then and Now:
Utilitarianism, 19th Century Science and Disease Objectification in Medicine

Sophia Efstathiou (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Use Your Mind:
Exercises in Positive Thinking from Early 20th Century Until Now

4:15pm Close

Contact The Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS) for more information about this event.

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