- Location
- Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street, Room 1200
- Series/Type
- JCB Event
- Dates
- May 29, 2019 from 4:10pm to 5:30pm
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The University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics presents the 17th Annual Jus Lecture
“Imaging, Objectivity, and Chronic Pain Stigma: Connecting Past to Present for Social Justice”
Speaker: Daniel S. Goldberg, JD, PhD, Core Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, CU School of Medicine, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, CO School of Public Health, Scholar in Equity, Health, & Law, Farley Health Policy Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
This lecture explores the social and historical roots of chronic pain stigma in the West, with a geographic focus on North America. The primary claim of the lecture is that only by connecting past to present can the problem of chronic pain stigma be fully apprehended. An accurate picture of the concept of stigma and its historical roots as to chronic pain in particular is essential for designing and delivering appropriate and efficacious interventions. The talk begins by defining stigma in health contexts and explaining how and why it is an ethical problem (drawing primarily on Powers and Faden’s health sufficiency model of social justice). The talk then moves to an historical analysis of the idea of objectivity and its deep connections to scientific and medical imaging (with a particular emphasis on anatomical studies). The final portion of the lecture connects this history to contemporary problems of chronic pain stigma, and leverages the analysis to highlight three interventions that may ameliorate the inequitable burden of chronic pain stigma.
The Jus Lecture is free and open to the public. It will also be webcast for those who cannot attend in person. No registration is required.