The 2013 CVMST Annual Conference focused on ethical and value issues that arise in medical research, practice and policy. The conference engages scholars in exploring these interactions from historical, humanistic, social, scientific, psychological, policy-making and philosophical perspectives. Intemann's Advocacy and Activism in Biomedical Research: Why "Value-Balanced" is just as bad as "Value-Free" was recorded in 2013.

00:00 - [Introduction]
02:20 - [Values in biomedical sciences]
05:40 - [When are values appropriate?]
09:45 - [Intemann's aims]
11:05 - [Selecting evidential categories]
13:55 - [Employing normative concepts in data characterization]
16:50 - [Evidentiary standards and methodology]
24:55 - [Clinical trial design and methodology]
32:00 - [Value judgments that shape evidence]
34:05 - [Under what conditions are values appropriate?]
37:40 - [Wchich values and aims? Who decides?]
38:50 - [Standpoint feminism as a resource]
40:10 - [Some HIV research as an example]
42:50 - [The advocacy obligation]
45:15 - [How do we support this?]
49:10 - [Q and A]

ABOUT KRISTEN INTEMANN
Dr. Kristen Intemann is a Professor for the Center for Science, Technology, Ethics & Society at Montana State University. She specializes in values in science, research ethics, objectivity and bias, feminist philosophy of science, environmental ethics, biomedical ethics.

ABOUT THE CENTER
The Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology's mission is to understand, evaluate, and improve the ethical and cultural influences on and implications of medicine, science, and technology. This mission is driven by several key ideas: Innovation led by the heart as well as the head. Science that is ethically and socially responsible. Medicine practiced with compassion and wisdom. Social and cultural change informed by the best science and technology. Using creativity, knowledge, and intelligence to make the world a better place in which to live.