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ISPS-US 23rd Annual Conference | November 1-3, 2024 | University of Pittsburgh & Duquesne University | Pittsburgh, PA & Hybrid Online | Preliminary Schedule
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Thinking Irremediability: Palliative Psychiatry and Mad Autonomy (Virtual Only)
Saturday November 2, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Virtual only (Zoom)
Recent work within bioethics has engaged with the question of palliative care for mental illness. In particular, recent arguments for palliative psychiatry make the argument that recognition of individuals’ ability to make determinations about care can extend to giving individuals the option to choose palliative care in the face of long-standing, treatment-refractory illness.

While arguments within bioethics have engaged with the question of autonomy here, perspectives from Mad Studies have been noticeably absent in this discourse. This presentation will interrogate the question of autonomy and palliative care from the perspective of Mad Studies, asking how framing and understanding of determinations of futile care, as well as arguments for offering palliative care as a way of respecting agency, change when lived experience perspectives are centered. In so doing, it will argue that these perspectives offer vital, and previously uninterrogated, points of consideration.
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Kathleen Lowenstein

Michigan State University
Kathleen Lowenstein is a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University whose research focuses on the ethics of mental health and illness, with a specific focus on schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. She is particularly interested in integrating critical perspectives... Read More →
Saturday November 2, 2024 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Virtual only (Zoom)
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