On the 20th of July the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele is holding a full day conference focusing on the topic of Research ethics in Europe – what is done and how it could be done better On the 21st of July will be a half day workshop on the Role of Autonomy & […]
Category: Conferences
SAP Conference 2010
Since spending the weekend at the Society for Applied Philosophy’s conference in Oxford, I’ve been mulling over the ways in which a couple of the papers I head have implications for bioethics (if, indeed, they have any). […]
Conference and Public Lecture: Humans and Other Animals
Details below the fold, or from here. […]
Graduate Workshop on Pain, Birmingham, 11th June
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Stuart Derbyshire (Psychology, Birmingham): “The difficulty of locating the beginnings of pain”. David Bain (Philosophy, Glasgow): “Pain and Imperatives” CALL FOR PAPERS If you are a postgraduate (taught or research) student working on pain, you are invited to submit an abstract for presentation at the workshop. Deadline is 30th April. A contribution to […]
Conference: Beyond the Body? Perspectives on Enhancement
The Wellcome Trust Programme ‘The Human Body: its scope limits and future’ will be holding a two day conference titled ‘Beyond the Body? Perspectives on Enhancement’ in Manchester from 9th to the 11th April 2010. […]
Ethical Issues in Infectious Disease Control Workshop 22nd of April – Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University.
The Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele like to announce a Wellcome Trust funded workshop to be held at Keele University on the 22nd of April focusing on the ethical issues raised by infectious disease control. […]
Conference: NICE, Age Discrimination, and Treatment at the End of Life 16th April 2010
Following the recent Department of Health Report, Achieving Age Equality in Health and Social Care, UCL is pleased to announce a free one day conference on the topic of how the NHS should deal with questions of age when making decisions about which treatments to fund at the end of life. […]
Progress in Medicine Conference
Bristol, 13-15 April. The aims of this conference are: To examine the nature, scope, causes, and grounds of progress in medicine. To provide a forum for developing the unified study of the history and philosophy of medicine, and in particular raising the profile of the philosophy of medicine in the UK and its engagement with […]
Philosophy of Medicine Workshop, Bristol, 28.x.09
This looks like it could be interesting… Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol This is an informal workshop on topics in the philosophy of medicine. Everyone is welcome. •09.45–11.00 Kevin Brosnan (Cambridge) “Does nothing in medicine make sense except in light of evolution?” •11.15–12.30 Jeremy Howick (UCL) “Defining a role for mechanistic reasoning in EBM” […]
Conference: Research Ethics Committees – Help or Hindrance? UCL 12 Nov 2009
Interesting Research Ethics Conference at UCL in November, and I’m not just saying that because I am one of the speakers… […]