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Sharrona Pearl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medical Ethics
Drexel University

Both like and not like cosmetic surgery and whole organ transplants, facial allografts have proven difficult to categorize. This talk will show how bioethicists, surgeons, and journalists have conceptualized face transplants as neither and both, and the resulting stakes for each. Paying particular attention to the media coverage of Isabelle Dinoire’s partial facial allograft in 2005, Pearl will discuss the implications of the cosmetic frame and the whole organ frame for the bioethical debates around FAT.

Speakers including the Berman Institute’s Cynda Rushton and Jeremy Greene will address topics such as burnout and wellness among health care professionals, as well as discuss the erosion of the human relationship between provider and patient

Following a reading by the author, Ruth Faden will moderate discussion of about ethical dimensions of issues raised by her memoir

Healthcare architecture has strongly advocated for patient-centered design, but can the resulting concealment of clinical spaces devalue the role of medical professionals? With a recent paradigm shift towards design quality measurement, has the social responsibility of health architects changed? Obligations to develop an ethically-based framework to structure design decisions and allocation discussions in healthcare architecture are explored.