The national Situating Science project and partners are pleased to present the second talk in:
The Lives of Evidence
A multi-part national lecture series examining the cultural, ethical, political, and scientific role of evidence in our world.
Part 2:
An Atypical Suicide: Psychiatric Research Abuse at the University of Minnesota
Carl Elliot, Professor of Pediatrics and Philosophy, Centre for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
Friday, Feb. 28 2014, 12:10 PM (Atlantic)
Room 104, Weldon Law Building, Dalhousie University, 6061 University Ave.
Halifax, NS
Watch live online here!
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Free.
Lunch provided from 11:50am
When a young man committed suicide in an industry-sponsored clinical trial of atypical antipsychotic drugs at the University of Minnesota in 2004, some critics charged that he had been coerced into the study. Others claimed the trial had been rigged to produce positive results for the sponsor's antipsychotic. Both claims may well be correct, but recent events suggest an even darker story.
The Lives of Evidence national lecture series explores the cultural, ethical, political, and scientific role of evidence in our world.
Supported by:
Dalhousie University Health Law Institute and NovelTech Ethics
In conjunction with:
Fear and Loathing in Medical Research
Carl Elliot, Professor of Bioethics, University of Minnesota
Thursday, Feb. 27 2014, 4:30 PM
Theatre B, Tupper Link, 5850 College St. Halifax, NS
Supported by the Dalhousie University Health Law Institute and NovelTech Ethics
Link:
http://noveltechethics.ca/events/113
