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UH Ethics Grand Rounds: "The Ethical Dimensions of Decision-Making Capacity"
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Ben Schwan is a faculty member in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University and supervises the clinical ethics consultation service for The MetroHealth System in Cleveland, OH. Before landing in Cleveland, he completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. Ben's research focuses primarily on issues of agency and autonomy and their implications for ethical theory and practice.
For Zoom information, please contact Robert Guerin at Robert.Guerin@uhhospitals.org.
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Ben Schwan
Instructor of Bioethics, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine Clinical Ethicist, Center for Biomedical Ethics, MetroHealth System
CWRU Dept. of Bioethics
Ben Schwan is a faculty member in the Department of Bioethics at CaseWestern ReserveUniversity and a clinical ethics consultant for The MetroHealth System in Cleveland, OH. Before landing in Cleveland, he completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
Ben's research focuses primarily on issues of agency as they arise in ethical theory and practice. At the theoretical level, his work explores implications that accounts of ability, intention, action, and control have for theories of reasons and oughts. At the practical level, he scrutinizes the role that autonomy plays in justifying certain practices in medical research and clinical care, and investigates the impact that health and healthcare have on patients’ scope of responsibility.
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