Halifax

Fear and Loathing in Medical Research

5:00pm
- 7:00pm
Thursday February 27 2014

Dan Markingson was a 26 year-old man from St. Paul and a recent graduate of the University of Michigan who began showing signs of mental illness in the summer of 2003. His thoughts became paranoid and delusional, and he became convinced that he was part of a vast cult, which was calling on him to murder people, including his mother. On November 12, 2003, Markingson was taken to Fairview Hospital in Minneapolis, where he was seen by Dr. Stephen Olson, a psychiatrist at the University of Minnesota. Olson recommended involuntary commitment, and a court agreed. Later, despite objections by his mother, Mary Weiss, Olson recruited Markingson into a clinical trial of antipsychotic drugs.
On May 8, 2004, he committed suicide and officials at the University of Minnesota have consistently maintained that neither the university nor the study investigators bear any responsibility for Markingson's death.  Read the full details at http://markingson.blogspot.ca/

This talk will explore the continuing ethical issues surrounding medical research and human research subjects.

Carl Elliott is a Professor at the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minneosota Medical School and a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota.

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