Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 8, 2004|Volume 33, Number 6

Event celebrates law professor's scholarly work

A conference titled "A World Less Silent: Celebrating Jay Katz's Contributions to Law, Medicine and Ethics" will take place 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 15, at the Law School, 127 Wall St.

The event will both pay tribute to the fundamental work done by Jay Katz, the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor Emeritus of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry at Yale, and look at meaningful scholarship currently being done in the fields of psychoanalysis and the law, research on human beings and the doctor-patient relationship.

The conference takes its name from Katz's 1984 book "The Silent World of Doctor and Patient," which argued for more open communication beween physicians and patients. It will consist of three presentations, followed by commentary. The day will also include a private gathering in which Katz's former students will offer their personal reflections on the Yale scholar's role as mentor and teacher.

Katz, who is also the Harvey L. Karp Professorial Lecturer in Law and Psychoanalysis, has explored the interface between law and medicine, asking one fundamental question: How can the tensions between our constitutional and common law traditions, on the one hand, be reconciled with medicine's hippocratic heritage and practice as well as medicine's more recent commitment to science and its stringent impact on the interactions between physician-scientists and patient-subjects, on the other hand? His other books include "The Family and the Law" (with J. Goldstein), "Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Law" (with J. Goldstein and A. Dershowitz), "Experimentation with Human Beings" and "Catastrophic Diseases: Who Decides What?" (with A.M. Capron).

For more information about the conference, send e-mail to carol.pollard@yale.edu or david.tolley@yale.edu.

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