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AUGUSTA – Lithgow Public Library’s A Capital Read program holds its second event April 12 — a talk on bioethics inspired by the story of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” the featured book in the program.
The talk by Gregory Fahy, of the University of Maine at Augusta, will take place at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 12, in the Community Room at Lithgow Public Library, 45 Winthrop St. It is free and open to the public.
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” raises a variety of questions about medical ethics, and Fahy will address many of them from a historical perspective as well as current practice and invite audience feedback, according to a news release from the library. Questions will include: What does consent and privacy mean in medicine? How can I assure that I am included in my own medical planning? Does it make sense to say that I own my own body? My body parts? What protections are there for those who consent to be part of a medical research project?
Fahy earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University in 1998 and is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Maine at Augusta. His philosophical interests include ethics, bioethics and American pragmatism, according to the release. He served on the Bioethics Committee at Maine General for eight years and is also on the Maine Humanities Council and on the Institutional Review Board at the University of Maine at Augusta.
A Capital Read is sponsored by Bangor Savings Bank and the Friends of Lithgow Library, in partnership with the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, Barnes and Noble and the Augusta Civic Center.
Free copies of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” are available at Lithgow Library, Bangor Savings Bank Augusta locations and the Holocaust and Human Rights Center at UMA, while supplies last.
For more information, contact Lithgow Library at 626-2415 or visit lithgow.lib.me.us.
