IPMR Session: Treatment evaluation: new perspectives from the bench to bedside and beyond

Description

International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable Session. Treatment, medical intervention, and therapy all refer to remedies to target health problems, and they are at the center of attention of many biomedical subdisciplines, from chemistry to public health, from pharmacology to psychiatry. Philosophers of medicine have explored many important issues related to treatment effectiveness, its personalization, the reducibility of complex health problems to simple interventions, and the implications (i.e., stigmatize, pathologize) of medicalizing via treatments conditions that were once thought not to lie within medicine's realm. Yet, many other epistemological, clinical, societal, and political issues remain largely unexplored. To stimulate new directions of research, this symposium brings together a diverse group of philosophers, centered around the evaluation of treatments from bench to the bedside, and beyond: How does a 'new' treatment emerge from basic research in science? How are we to evaluate a treatment's causal effects from a clinician's point of view and in relationship to other types of treatment that target the same health problem, but from a different disciplinary perspective? In the broader sociopolitical context, should we institutionally regulate pharmaceutical treatments to be tailored around patient autonomy or paternalism?

Period	10 Nov 2022
Event title	PSA 2022 - Philosophy of Science Association, 28th Biennial Meeting
Event type	Conference
Location	United StatesShow on map