Philosophy of Advanced Medical Imaging
From the book flyer:
This is the first book to explore the epistemology and ethics of advanced imaging tests, in order to improve the critical understanding of the nature of knowledge they provide and the practical consequences of their utilization in healthcare. Advanced medical imaging tests, such as PET and MRI, have gained center stage in medical research and in patients’ care. They also increasingly raise questions that pertain to philosophy: What is required to be an expert in reading images? How are standards for interpretation to be fixed? Is there a problem of overutilization of such tests? How should uncertainty be communicated to patients? How to cope with incidental findings? This book is of interest and importance to scholars of philosophy of medicine at all levels, from undergraduates to researchers, to medical researchers and practitioners (radiologists and nuclear physicians) interested in a critical appraisal of the methodology of their discipline and in the ethical principles and consequences of their work.
Elisabetta Lalumera and Stefano Fanti editors
Philosophy of Advanced medical Imaging Conference, 4 feb 2021
Zoomhttps://zoom.us/j/91924429352?pwd=ZU9ZRlVBd1hiNlBubURkcjhHcWhmQT09ID meeting: 919 2442 9352Passcode: Piw4Xh
9.00 CET Welcome: chair Stefano Fanti
9.05-9.35 Elisabetta Lalumera (University of Bologna) and Stefano Fanti (Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi & University of Bologna). The philosophy of advanced medical imaging: Mapping the field.
9.35-10.05 Rodney Hicks (University of Melburne). On the Inclusion of Specialists as Authors in Systematic Reviews
10.05-10.35 Luca Casini (University of Bologna) and Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna). Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence
10.35-11.05 Kristin Lysdahl (University of South Eastern Norway) and Bjorn Hofmann (University of Oslo). Overutilization of imaging tests and healthcare fairness
break 15 min (change of chairperson) Chair: Raffaella Campaner (University of Bologna)
11.20-11.50 Bjorn Hofmann and Kristin Lysdahl. Types of diagnostic uncertainty – defining them and addressing them
11.50-12.20 Stephen John (Cambridge University). Screening, scale and certainty
12.20-12.50 Laetitia Marcucci (Université Côte d’Azur, France, and Espace Éthique PACA-Corse, France) and David Taieb (Aix-Marseille University)
Philosophical and ethical issues for imaging professionals faced to communication of diagnostic imaging results to oncologic patients.
lunch break 30 minutes
13.20-13.50 Ashley Graham Kennedy (Florida Atlantic University) Imaging, representation and diagnostic uncertainty
13.50-14.20 John Babich (Weill Cornell Medicine, New York) and Uwe Haberkorn (University Hospital Heidelberg, and German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg) Development of novel radiopharmaceuticals: problems, decisions and more problems.
14.20-14.50 Giovanni Boniolo (Ferrara University) Concluding remarks and the role of philosophy