Coming Soon: Why I Am a Bioconservative

Why I Am A Bioconservative

Featuring Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Thursday, Sept 17th. 3:45-5:00 pm 

310 Media and Public Affairs Building

The George Washington University

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This lecture has two interrelated purposes. First, it broadly suggests ways that principles, logics, guidelines, and rules of religious bioethics can serve effectively in situations and for populations outside of the particular religious tradition that generates them. Second, it offers the term bioconservative to describe my own ethical position as a disability bioethicist. To do this, I lay out a position between the concepts of conservation and liberal social politics to bridge religious and nonreligious belief communities. Because the term conservative is associated with the politics of the right, I bring forward a rationale for what is accomplished by invoking the term conservative and conservation for a disability equality and human rights-based perspective in bioethics. In the service of these larger aims, and most specifically, this talk draws from religious bioethics to explicate dignity as it pertains to quality-of-life judgments used in biomedical decision-making for life ending medical treatments. This is a written talk with PowerPoint.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Disability Studies Initiative at Emory University. Her her fields of study are disability studies, American literature and culture, bioethics, and women’s studies. Her work develops the field of critical disability studies in the health humanities, broadly understood, to bring forward disability access, equity, and identity to communities inside and outside of the academy. She is the author of Staring: How We Look and several other books. Her current book project is Habitable Worlds: Disability, Technology, and Eugenics.

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The event is wheelchair accessible. We welcome deaf & hearing 

impaired participants. Please contact dtmitchel@gwu.edu for ASL access

Sponsored by:

the English Department Rosenblum Funds 

and Disability Students Services 

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