Halifax

Patents, Progress, and Commercialized Medicine

Part 4 of The Lives of Evidence national lecture series

7:30pm
- 9:00pm
Thursday March 20 2014

Recent headline-making studies indicate that there is a crisis in medical research. Health issues are increasingly dominated by commercial interests, and this jeopardizes research, evidence and, ultimately, peoples’ health. Patentable solutions, typically drugs, are proposed for health problems while other approaches are ignored. This raises pressing questions: How can we ensure high-quality medicine in light of corporate research funding and massive financial conflicts of interest? How does this effect medicine, ethics, public policy, and politics? Is socialized medical research a viable solution?
 
This event marks Part 4 of The Lives of Evidence national lecture series exploring the cultural, ethical, political, and scientific role of evidence in our world.
 
Supported by:
University of King’s College History of Science and Technology Programme, Dalhousie University Department of Philosophy and Health Law Institute with in-kind support from NovelTech Ethics and NS Health Research Foundation.

Free.
Reception to follow.
Watch live online and download the poster: 
www.SituSci.ca

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