VMST 2022: VALUES IN MEDICINE, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2022
PROGRAM

Days: Thursday, May 19th Friday, May 20th Saturday, May 21st

Thursday, May 19th

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10:00-12:00 Session 2: Panel Session
Location: JO 4.614
10:00
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Practical Consequences of Philosophical Debates about Psychiatry (abstract)
13:30-14:30 Session 3: Values in Psychiatry and Psychology
Location: JO 4.614
13:30
A Non-Individualistic Psychiatric Ethics: What It Might Mean for Those Living with Schizophrenia (abstract)
13:50
Is Moral Truth “Admissible” in Scientific Moral Psychology? (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 4: Keynote Lecture
Location: JO 4.614
15:00
Critiquing Values: Psychiatry and Well-being
Friday, May 20th

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09:45-10:45 Session 5: Focusing on Organizations and Institutions
Location: JO 4.614
09:45
Organizations and Values in Science and Technology (abstract)
10:05
Why Medical Diagnosis is Not Like Searching for Your Keys (abstract)
11:15-12:30 Session 6: Lightning Talks

Lightning talks are short, timed presentations (5 minutes each). This session is scheduled right before lunch, and you are encouraged to find presenters at this session to talk to during that time and throughout the rest of the conference. 

Location: JO 4.614
11:15
Social Values, Disability Policy, and the US Health Care System (abstract)
11:20
Scientists as Agents of Democratization in Authoritarian Societies (abstract)
11:25
Constitutive or Contextual? Societal Values in Ecological Management (abstract)
11:30
Listening as a Mechanism for Inculcating Social Justice into Engineering Ethics (abstract)
11:35
Cheating online and in-person: Chess as a case study (abstract)
11:40
“Rarely pure and never simple”: Truth, Trust, and the Role of Intent in Expert Testimony (abstract)
11:45
Popular Agency, Specificity, and Technology: Thinking a New Agriculture (abstract)
11:50
From Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) to Citizen-Science: Addressing the Ethical Nexus of Participatory Public Health Research (abstract)
11:55
Islam's Influence on Middle Eastern Plague Response (abstract)
12:30-14:00 Lunch w/ Lightning Talk Presenters

Grab something to eat and then find your favorite presenters from the Lightning Talk session to discuss their projects in more detail. 

14:00-15:30 Session 7: Problematizing Public Health
Location: JO 4.614
14:00
The Medical Model and the Values Behind the Guise of Health (abstract)
14:20
‘Public health crises’ are a public health crisis: Against public health approaches to behavioral addiction (abstract)
14:40
Genomics in the Age of Population Health (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 8: COVID-19: Science, Values, and Policy
Chair:
Location: JO 4.614
16:00
Scientific and Social Values, Post-Normal Science, and COVID-19 (abstract)
16:20
Values and Epidemiological Modeling: A case study of Covid-19 modeling in Utah in 2020 (abstract)
16:40
Is COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal a Legitimate Form of Conscientious Objection? (abstract)
Saturday, May 21st

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09:45-10:45 Session 9: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Location: JO 4.614
09:45
Superstitious AF: Our Faith Beyond Understanding in Artificial Intelligences (abstract)
10:05
Machine Learning and Reflective Agency (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 10: Medical Practice and Practitioners
Location: JO 4.614
11:00
Nurses’ Workplace Social Capital: The Ethical Bridge Between Technology and Delivery of Healthcare Services. (abstract)
11:20
Against medical capitalism: The pitfalls of patient-centred care in palliative medicine (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 11: New Approaches to Values in Science
Location: JO 4.614
14:00
Developing Measures of Public Perceptions of Values in Science (abstract)
PRESENTER: Dan Hicks
14:20
The Nature of Values in Science: What They Are and How They Guide (abstract)
14:40
Vital dialogues: Georges Canguilhem on the science-politics relation (abstract)
16:15-17:15 Session 12: Director's Address
Location: JO 4.614
16:15
Values in Science: Past, Present, and Future (abstract)
17:30-19:00 Conference Dinner

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