International Conference on Bioethics
Bioethics and the Five Senses
Final programme
Sapori del mondo ed Immagini del sentire
Quale ruolo per i cinque sensi nella pratica clinica?
La bioetica ed i cinque sensi tra clinica, paesaggi e metafore
Università ta’ Malta
1 - 4 October 2020
Thursday / Giovedi 1 OCTOBER 2020 |
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Session 1: Reclaiming the senses in health care. |
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0830 |
Address by HE The President of the Republic of Malta. |
0845 |
Address by HG The Archbishop. |
0900 |
An Anthropology of the Five Senses which flavours the world. |
0945 |
To whom does our body belong? |
1030 |
Break |
1045 |
The humanisation of medicine between bioethics and biopolitics. |
1130 |
The five senses in the history of ancient medicine. |
1215 |
Robotic surgery and the five senses: what relationship? |
1300 |
Lunch Break |
1530 |
Intersex: The Invisible ‘I’. |
1615 |
Childhood desires, techniques and immaginations. |
Session 2: Images of sight: Close your eyes and you will see! |
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1700__ |
Looking at the gaze: ethical and aesthetical observations on sight. |
1745 |
Coffee Break |
1800 |
Thauma. The enchantment of the gaze in the medical practice. |
1845 |
The invisible that matters in health care: caring while curing. |
1930 |
Normal and abnormal: a question of perspective? The case of fibromyalgia, an invisible disease. |
2015 |
Supper |
Friday / Venerdi 2 OCTOBER 2020 |
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0845 |
Visual ethics and the new technologies: is what we see what we get? |
0930 |
The value of the gaze of the sick child. |
1015 |
Looking (around you) for the last time: the time of death. |
1100 |
Coffee Break. |
Session 3: Images of Taste: Come and taste. Immagini del gusto: Venite et Gustate. |
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1115 |
A taste for ethics and an ethics of taste. |
1200 |
Bioethics and nutrition: what relationship? |
1245 |
Nutrition and food refusal at the end of life. |
1330 |
Lunch Break |
1530 |
The mother-daughter relationship at the heart of food choices. |
1615 |
How does contemporary society look at the problem of obesity? |
1700 |
Discussing sexual health attitudes with parents/carers of adolescents with special needs in Malta. |
1745 |
Break |
1800 |
Body and mind: The consequences of forgetting the teachings of Hippocrates. |
Session 4: Images of hearing: Faith comes from hearing. Immagini dell’udire: Fides ex auditu. |
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1845 |
I sense that you are there! The invisible wall separating persons in a state of coma. |
1930 |
The analyst-patient relationship: listening to the soul in the Jungian perspective. |
2015 |
Supper |
Saturday / Sabato 3 OCTOBER 2020 |
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0845 |
«Pouvez-vous comprendre ma détresse spirituelle?, m’a-t-elle dit. Car personne ne voulait l’écouter… ». Unconditional listening. Gabriel Ringlet's poetic approach to persons in palliative care. |
0930 |
Words and relationships to communicate pain: strategies for listening. |
1015 |
If I were to understand your language, I would enter into your silence: Ethical issues in autism. |
1100 |
Break |
Session 5: Images of Touch: From measurement to grace Immagini del tatto: Dalla misura alla grazia |
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1115 |
Does the artificial hand produce a sense of touching? |
1200 |
Physical contact with the person and telemedicine: ethical questions. |
1245 |
Ethical questions relted to intimacy and sexuality in homes for the elderly. |
1330 |
Lunch Break |
1530 |
Prejudices and injustices in healthcare arising from the perception of another person's skin. |
1615 |
Touching and accompanying elderly people in institutions during COVID. |
1700 |
The hit body – the violated body |
1745 |
Coffee Break |
1800 |
Surgery between touching and cutting: a peculiar relationship between physician and patient. |
Session 6: Images of Smell: The soul's nature! Immagini dell’olfatto: La natura dell'anima! |
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1845 |
Towards an anthropology of smell: what odours in t.he places of treatment? |
1930 |
Anosmia: a rare and unrecognised disease |
2015 |
Supper |
Sunday / Domenica 4 OCTOBER 2020 |
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0845 |
Epilepsy and smell: cause, warning, symptom or treatment? A bioethical consideration. |
0930 |
Smell is the sense of intuition: the invisible leading to the visible? |
1015 |
The olfactive construction of the social identity of sexuality and gender. |
1100 |
Coffee Break |
1115 |
Debate |
1245 |
Conclusion. |