What is the value of Quality of Life? Cost, Care, Choices

Time and date

Monday 27th March, 18:00 - 21:00

Venue

Jesus College, Cheng Yu Tung Building, Turn St, Oxford OX1 3DW 

Description 

What if your quality of life wasn’t something they could measure — but that didn’t stop you from living it?

Healthcare systems worldwide face difficult ethical decisions about cost-effectiveness and resource allocation in a financially constrained environment. How are those decisions made, can personal narratives affect the decision-making process, and if they can, would this be ethical?

Intertwining Jamie Hale’s award-winning play, ‘Quality of Life is Not a Measurable Outcome’ with live audience polling, this project aims to explore the tension between personal and impersonal perspectives and directly interrogate how an individual narrative shifts the framework for reflection and discussion. The play will be followed by a sensitive discussion of the ethical dimensions of decision-making, drawing on the academic and personal experiences of both researchers in a spirit of collaborative inquiry. Interactive polling will allow the audience to engage in discussion, reflect on the impact on their own thinking and contribute to research into this new and striking approach to difficult and controversial ethical questions.

Jamie Hale performs 'Quality of Life is not a Measurable Outcome', followed Jamie Hale and Dominic Wilkinson in conversation.

This event is a collaboration between CRIPtic Arts - the disability arts hub and ANTITHESES.

Tickets

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