I hope this talk and seminar will be of interest to list subscribers - apologies
for cross-posting. Rachel Hughes (Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental
Disabilities Research Group)
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"The Personal is Philosophical is Political: A Philosopher/Mother of a Cognitively
Disabled Person Sends Notes from the Battlefield".
Talk by Professor Eva Kittay of Centre for Medical Humanities, Compassionate
Care and Bioethics, Stony Brook University, USA.
Time: 2 to 3.30pm
Date: Wednesday 24th June
Venue: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX
Directions: see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/9/centre-directions.htm
The talk will be preceded by an informal seminar session on another of
Professor Kittay's papers:
"Beyond Autonomy and Paternalism - the Caring, Transparent Self"
Time: 11.30 to 1pm
Date: Wednesday 24th June
Venue and directions as above.
If you intend coming to the seminar session, Prof Kittay’s paper is published in
the book Nys, T., Denier, Y., Vandevelde, T. (2007) Autonomy and Paternalism
Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Health Care. Peeters Publishing
(available on Google Books).
About Eva Kittay:
Eva Kittay is currently Professor of Philosophy, Senior Fellow of the Stony
Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics and an
Affiliate of the Women’s Studies Program at Stony Brook University. She has
published numerous articles in the areas that include philosophy of language,
metaphor theory, feminist philosophy, feminist ethics, social and political
theory, metaphor, and disability studies. She is also the mother of a woman
with significant Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and has written
widely reflecting on the question of cognitive disability and her personal
encounter with her daughter’s disability.
The talk and seminar are hosted by the Health and Welfare Group based at
the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities,
University of Cambridge (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/33/health--
welfare.htm) and both events are free. Please contact
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