The theme of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health's Fourth Annual Bioethics Symposium is "Doctors, Politics and Conscience."

The event will feature discussion and presentations for students, faculty, health care providers and the community.

Admission is free.

This event will be streamed online live and be available to view after the event at the School of Medicine and Public Health video library.

Welcome

• 1pm - Remarks and Symposium Introduction, Dean Robert N. Golden, MD, and Norman Fost, MD, MPH, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Featured Talks

• 1:15pm - "Political Medicine: The Case of South Africa's Dr. Death (Wouter Basson)," Steven Miles, MD, University of Minnesota Medical School. Author of "Oath Betrayed: America's Torture Doctors" (University of California Press, 2009) which examines military medicine in the war on terror
  
  
• 2pm - "Conscience and Duty: Reflections on Wearing White Coats and Other Uniforms," Richard J. Bonnie, LLB, University of Virginia Law School. Investigated political abuses of Soviet psychiatry and served as a lawyer for Ted Kaczynski
  
  
• 2:45pm - Break
  
  
• 3pm - Symposium Introduction (Part 2), Susan Lederer, PhD, chair, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, UW School of Medicine and Public Health
  
  
• 3:05pm - "Claims of Conscience in Medicine and the Conflict Over the Public Space," R. Alta Charo, JD, University of Wisconsin Law School and School of Medicine and Public Health. Member of President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission and current expert witness in the federal pharmacy refusal case Stormans v. Selecky
  
  
• 3:45pm - "Gaming The System: Should Doctors Lie to Help Their Patients?" E. Haavi Morreim, PhD, JD, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine. Author of "Holding Health Care Accountable: Law and the New Medical Marketplace"
  

Clinical Perspectives Panel

Moderator: Susan Lederer, PhD, chair, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, UW School of Medicine and Public Health

• 4:25pm - "Moral Distress and Provision of Futile Care in the ICU," Jeff Grossman, MD, Department of Medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, and CEO, UW Medical Foundation
  
  
• 4:45pm - "Choice and Duty: Physicians, Women and Birth Control," Laurel Rice, MD, Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UW School of Medicine and Public Health
  
  
• 5:05pm - Discussion

Suggested Readings

Charo RA. The Celestial Fire of Conscience - Refusing to Deliver Medical Care. New England Journal of Medicine 352(24):2471-2473. 2005. 

Miles SH. Settled Precepts: Normative Ethics, Applied Ethics, and Physician Complicity with Torture. Medicine, Conflict and Survival 27(4), 2011.

Miles SH. Punishing physicians who torture: A work in progress. Torture 20:23-31, 2010.

Bonnie RJ. Medical Ethics and the Death Penalty. Hasting Center Report 20(3):12-18, 1990.

Morreim EH. Gaming the System: Dodging the Rules, Ruling the Dodgers. Archives of Internal Medicine 151(3):443-447, 1991.