Guest post by Sorcha Uí Chonnachtaigh On Thursday, 9 December, the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele hosted a Wellcome funded seminar entitled “Consent and Organ Donation” to coincide with the final lecture in a series on organ donation by visiting Leverhulme Professor Martin Wilkinson. Martin’s lecture on Wednesday evening (8 December), “Reforms for the […]
Category: Conferences
My Homunculus Made Me Do It!
Many readers will be familiar with the “Sokal Hoax”, in which a nonsensical paper was submitted to, and accepted by, the journal Social Text, thereby demonstrating the vacuity of at least some PoMo theorising. Well, John MacLachlan has repeated the feat, having had a patently absurd abstract accepted for presentation at a conference on integrative […]
Conference: Paying for blood and organs is not so bad: A Debate
Allowing sales of gametes and body parts and offering incentives to increase provision have been some of the more controversial suggestions to narrow the gap between demand and supply. Drawing on Richard Titmuss’ work on blood, many have argued that financial incentives reduce supply by driving out altruistic donors as well as reducing the quality […]
COBRA Conference on Teaching Professional Ethics
Nathan Emmerich reviews the conference here. He’s also asked me to add a reminder about the conference on Social Scientific Approaches to Bioethics to be held in London in January. I posted the CFP here a little while ago, but the conference website is here. […]
Conf and CFP: 5th Postgraduate Bioethics Conference
Social Scientific Approaches to Bioethics: Methods and Methodologies 5-7 January 2011, Wellcome Conference Centre, Euston Road, London Post the empirical turn scholars at work in bioethics have been making continually greater use of social scientific approaches. One the one hand this can be seen as a fulfilment of the promise of bioethics as a truly […]
Conference: Medical Law and Ethics in the Media Spotlight
The British Academy, London Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th November, 2010 This event, organised by the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester, draws together top academics, influential practitioners, and key public figures. It is a participatory conference that will explore the complex nature of public debates in and around medical law and […]
Conference Report: ESPMH, Zagreb
Guest post by Nathan Emmerich. This year the annual conference of the European Society for the Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESMPH) was held in the Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, University of Zagreb. Participants came from across Europe for the four day event which was focussed on Human Nature. Many of the presenters […]
WCB 2010: The Post-Mortem
SO… For those of you who’ve just spent four Singaporean days braving fierce heat and humidity outside and fierce air-conditioning inside, how was it for you? What were the hits and misses of this year’s WCB? I’ll start the ball rolling: I particularly enjoyed Anthony Wrigley’s paper on proxy proxies, and am looking forward to […]
A Puzzle about Anti-Universalism
David, Søren and I have spent the last few days at the WCB in Singapore – one of us will open a “How was it for you?” thread in the next couple of days – and a theme or subtext of many of the talks was an endorsement on Ethical Anti-Univeralism (EAU). Very roughly, the […]
Vienna Calling!
You’ve possibly heard on the news that the 18th International Aids Conference is currently on in Vienna, and that one of the things that’s been talked about in connection with it is the Vienna Declaration. The essence of the declaration is very simple: The criminalisation of illicit drug users is fuelling the HIV epidemic and […]