Résumés du XXXIIIe Congrès International de droit et de santé ...

Heidi Ravven, Hamilton College (hravven@hamilton.edu)This presentation presents a range of neurobiological and other evidence from the new brainsciences that we must relinquish the notion of free will as the source of moral agency and moralresponsibility. It refers to Damasio’s neural self-mapping and mechanisms of homeodynamicstability, mirror neurons, Panksepp’s seven basic emotional systems as contributory sources ofour human moral capacity. It argues that locate a basic biological striving in a self distributedbeyond our skin into our environments, natural and human. This is why we care about the worldand why it is the arena of our moral concern and of our ideals. As a consequence must rethinkmoral responsibility in terms of the actual scope of its agents --from the individual to the groupand even beyond that to agents that span historical time periods.2. A 21 st Century Education for the Medico-Psycho-LegalPractitioner: Principles, Research, Methods, and PracticeChanging Attitudes among Trainees: Whose Job is it?Brad Booth, University of Ottawa (bbooth@theroyal.ca)With the exponential growth of individuals with mental illness coming in contact with the law,psychiatric care for these individuals is at times difficult to find. Many psychiatrists do not haveexperience with the legal system and therefore may avoid treating this group of patients. Toclarify the attitudes of psychiatric trainees, a survey of senior Canadian residents at the nationalpsychiatry review course was conducted. Among the 145 respondents, only 24% had been taughton correctional psychiatry and only 29% had any experience. Nearly 56% had been taught onsexual offenders but only 27% reported having had experience with this population. Nearly 1/3reported they preferred not to deal with forensic issues and 43% preferred not to work withpeople with sexual offences. The data did show that teaching and experience with this populationappears to be a powerful tool in changing attitudes. Being aware of these barriers may assist indeveloping strategies to increase psychiatric service availability.Forensic Nursing Education: International Collaborations andMultidisciplinary PedagogyArlene Kent-Wilkinson, University of Saskatchewan (arlene.kent@usask.ca)By the end of the twentieth century, forensic nursing educational programs began to appear inthe curricula of colleges and universities. The forensic focus has been a popular career choice19