Watson Fellowship Symposium: "Lives Worth Living" - Disability, Bioethics & Medicine

On April 4, 2014, Syracuse University Professor William J. Peace will host a day-long symposium on disability, bioethics, and contemporary medicine. 



Bill Peace himself will deliver a lecture on disability, bioethics, and healthcare. 



Barbara Farlow will address issues of life, death, and disability.  She travels widely and discusses the human rights of children with trisomy 13, the genetic anomaly that took her own daughter’s life. 



Professor Brenda Brueggemann of the University of Louisville will discuss the Nazi “T-4 Project” and its implications for contemporary scholars of disability and medicine. 



The closing event will be a keynote presentation by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Sheri Fink (MD) who will read from her new book Five Days at Memorial.