Saving Shared Decision Making From Itself
In the past decades, at the same time as the theory and practice of Shared Decision Making have achieved increasing prominence, threads of epistemological, ethical and political concern have converged to render the concept itself problematic. How does the “evidence based medicine” purveyed by the clinician differ from the evidence used by the patient? Whose values and preferences are meant to take precedence, and how does the social and political milieu impinge upon, or determine, the exercise of decision making (if indeed that is the main point of the health care encounter)?

In this exploratory, conceptual, and deliberately provocative talk, I will seek to blow up and then reconstruct shared decision making along both more defensible yet more ambitious lines, arguing that saving SDM as an approach to health care means saving our system from moral and empirical blindness.
Date: 25 June 2018, 11:00 (Monday, 10th week, Trinity 2018)
Venue: Big Data Institute (NDM), Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Speaker: Zackary Berger (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)
Organiser: Christa Henrichs (Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities)
Hosts: The Ethox Centre, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (University of Oxford)
Part of: Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: weh@bdi.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Public
Editor: Christa Henrichs