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SUMMARY:Precision Medicine and Distributive Justice: Wicked Problems for Democratic Deliberation
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 Join us for this webinar presented as part of 
 the 2022-2023 Bioethics Public Seminar Series 
 from the Center for Bioethics and Social Justice. 
 Professor Leonard M. Fleck, PhD, will present 
 on "Precision Medicine and Distributive 
 Justice: Wicked Problems for Democratic Deliberation." 
 Registration is open: https://bit.ly/bioethics-fleck\n
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 Description:\n
 Metastatic 
 cancer and costly precision medicines generate 
 extremely complex problems of health care 
 justice. Targeted cancer therapies yield only 
 very marginal gains in life expectancy for 
 most patients at very great cost, thereby threatening 
 the just allocation of limited health 
 care resources. Philosophic theories of justice 
 cannot address adequately the "wicked" 
 ethical problems associated with these targeted 
 therapies. Following Rawls, Fleck argues for 
 a political conception of health care justice, 
 and a fair and inclusive process of democratic 
 deliberation governed by public reason. 
 The virtue of democratic deliberation is that 
 citizens can fashion autonomously and publicly 
 shared understandings to fairly address 
 the complex problems of health care justice generated 
 by precision medicine. "Wicked" problems 
 can metastasize if rationing decisions are 
 made invisibly. A fair and inclusive process 
 of democratic deliberation can make these 
 "wicked" problems visible, and subject, to fair 
 public reason constraints. What constrained 
 choices do you believe you would endorse with 
 your fellow citizens as being "just enough"?\n\n
 Price: Free\n
 Sponsor: Center for Bioethics and Social Justice\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.bioethics.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Liz McDaniel\n
 Contact email: center@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://bioethics.msu.edu/public-seminars/22-23-series\n
LOCATION:Virtual
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