Center for Bioethics Seminar

Palliative Care Exceptionalism? A Broader Perspective on End of Life Care and Modern Medicine

When: Friday, July 21, 2017 from 12:45-2:00pm

Where: 5-125 Moos Tower, U of M East Bank Campus

Palliative care is an innovative and growing field focussing on life-threatening illness and on the relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. In this “holistic” approach palliative care differs from science-based modern medicine and shows similarities to other “holistic” approaches to the patient as a subject as well as to pre-modern medicine. Professor Vollmann discusses from his ongoing research palliative care exceptionalism and a broader perspective on end of life care and modern medicine and its’ consequences for future health care.

Seminars are free and open to the public. For more information, please visit this link.