Here’s a handful of moral statements that, I guess, many people would take to be trivially true: We ought to save lives where possible; Saving more lives is better than saving fewer; It is a good thing to save lives as efficiently as possible; Saving lives is more important than improving tolerable lives. Nothing too […]
Month: January 2009
Barbados, HIV and Nursing Policy
There is a controversy brewing in Barbados concerning Nigerian nurses and HIV – in particular, concerning the way the story was reported by the CBC, which provoked industrial action. As Alison Mayers points out in a (fairly impassioned) guest column in The Nation, there are many things that we might ask about HIV and the use of Nigerian […]
CFP: Mental Disorder
Friday 6th March 2009 University of Warwick This one-day workshop will be the second event of a new Multidisciplinary Research Network on The Concepts of Health, Illness and Disease, funded by the AHRC. The network is managed by Dr Havi Carel (UWE) and Dr Rachel Cooper (Lancaster). For more information on the network: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/courses/philosophy/ahrc_chid_network.shtml Within […]
CFP: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: ALSP 2009 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ASSOCIATION FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY (ALSP) 2009 Annual Conference ‘Ethics for the 21st Century’ July 2-4, 2009 University of Edinburgh – Department of Politics and IR, ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum http://www.lifelong.ed.ac.uk/alsp2009/ Outline The last two decades have seen profound social and economic changes in all areas of our lives. To name but […]
Studentship: PhD Ethics and Technology (Ethical Aspects of Modelling in Engineering) Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences Eindhoven, (Noord-Brabant), 40 hours per week Job description The PhD student is expected to do both supervised and unsupervised research, write a PhD thesis and research papers on ethical issues regarding modeling and to participate in activities of the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. A small part of the studentship […]
Job: Chair in Bioethics, University of Manchester
School of Law Closing date: 16/02/2009 Reference: HUM/81493 The University invites applications for the post of Professor in Bioethics within the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (CSEP) in the School of Law. The successful candidate will be a leading scholar in the field with an international reputation and the ability to take a leadership […]
Nominations Invited for President’s Council on Bioethics
Not really. Not yet. The President’s Council on Bioethics will exist until the end of September this year at the earliest: it may continue after that if Obama decides that it ought. However, even if the council as it stands becomes defunct, it’ll be replaced by something doing a very similar job – that much seems […]
What if Abortion were Illegal?
Not everything wrong is illegal; nor should it be. Adultery may be wrong, and eating foie gras may be problematic – but it doesn’t follow that eating foie gras with your mistress ought to be against the law. So what about abortion? Granted that some people think it wrong, what do they think the legal […]
Clinical Ethicist Job at Stony Brook
Sort-of-fresh in my inbox this morning was a notification that SUNY Stony Brook is advertising for an assistant/ associate professorial level job as a clinical ethicist. I’ve blogged about this kind of role before, and I have to say that the wording of the advert sort of confirms my suspicions about clinical ethics consultancy. The primary responsibilities […]
MP Not at all Dyslexic
Graham Stringer, the Labour MP for Blackley, has dismissed dyslexia as a myth invented to cover up for poor teaching. His claim brings to mind a claim reported a few years ago along the same lines made by Durham’s Julian Elliott. I’m not sure if it’s just a matter of the way in which the […]