Free and open to the public
April 24, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:30 pm
Illusion Theater
528 Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN
April 25, 2008
Noon - 1:30 PM
Mayo Auditorium,
University of Minnesota
Twin Cities Campus
“In the Eye of the Beholder” will focus on the unique perspective of people with disabilities. Each program will include a presentation, audience discussion, reception, and photograph exhibit by Rick Guidotti, founder of Positive Exposure—a nonprofit organization whose innovative programs challenge the stigma associated with difference and celebrates the richness of human diversity. Positive Exposure encourages participants to ask questions such as: What does a genetic disease look like? How do we define disability? How do we form our perceptions of disease and disability? What do others see when they see someone ‘affected’ with a disease or disability? These are among some of the most challenging questions students and practitioners in all areas of health care must face.
For registration, visit www.bioethics.umn.edu; or contact the Center for Bioethics at 612-624-9440; email: bioethx@umn.edu.
Sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Human Genetics, the Center for Bioethics, and the Illusion Theater; Funded by a grant from the University of Minnesota Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences