Recent PhD Jeremy Butler, now Senior Ethics Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Ethics, Unity Health Toronto, will be delivering a talk (with Dave Langlois, Clinical Ethicist, Centre for Clinical Ethics, Unity Health Toronto), titled “Moral and Conceptual Decision Points in the Design of Triage Protocols”. The talk is part of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Seminar Series, and will take place, over Zoom, on October 14, 2020, from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. The event is free and open to the public.
About this Seminar: "Many jurisdictions and organizations have recently been engaged in the development of triage protocols to guide allocation of critical care resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little systematic work has been done to analyze the underlying moral and conceptual character of triage practices. We believe that this absence is a problem; it leads to poor triage design and inadequate justification of triage practices. This presentation begins to address these problems by clarifying the central moral and conceptual decision points that must be addressed in any adequate triage protocol for public health emergencies such as the pandemic."
Jeremy’s talk comes on the heels of his most recent paper (“Obsolescence, Genetic Treatment, and Disability”, The American Journal of Bioethics), co-authored with recent PhD Chris Riddle, now Associate Professor, Chair of Philosophy, and Director of the Applied Ethics Institute at Utica College.