Biomedical Ethics and Law: Previous Seminars

2010

 

Friday 8 October 2010  4.30 pm

Dr Shaun Pattinson

Reader in Law

Durham University Law School

Directed Donation and Ownership of Human Organs

In this paper, Dr Pattinson explored the donation of organs from deceased donors for transplantation into a specified recipient, ie directed donation. Part one argued that attempts to prohibit or stringently restrict directed donation are opposed by a proper understanding of the principles underpinning the Human Tissue Act 2004. Part 2 examined those principles and a recent decision of the Court of Appeal (Yearworth v Bristol NHS Trust [2009] EWCA Civ 37) by reference to a particular conception of property.

 

JOINT SEMINAR:

LAW SCHOOL SENIOR SEMINARS

INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ETHICS

Wednesday 20 October 2010  2.15 pm   

Peter Bartlett

Professor of Mental Health Law

University of Nottingham

MENTAL HEALTH LAW IN CENTRAL EUROPE AND AFRICA:

Questions of Reform in Different Cultural and Economic Circumstances

 

JOINT SEMINAR:

PHILOSOPHY

INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ETHICS

Tuesday 9 November 2010  4.30 pm

Dr Thomas Douglas

University of Oxford

Moral Status, Justice and the Ethics of Enhancement

 

 

Research Seminars held in Semester 1 of 2008-9:

Transferring and Severing Parental Responsibility
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Dr Heather Draper
Reader in Biomedical Ethics
University of Birmingham

Does the Non-identity Problem Provide Grounds for Constraining our Use of Thought Experiments?
Friday 24 October  2008 
Dr Adrian Walsh
Senior Lecturer
School of Social Science
University of New England

 

Research Seminars held in Semester 2 of 2007-8:

 

Research Seminars held in Semester 1 of 2004-5:

Personal Identity and the Bioethical Structure
Professor Grant Gillett, Bioethics Centre, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand
Wednesday 29 September 2004

The Moral Obligation to Enhance: the Example of Sport
Professor Julian Savulescu, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
Tuesday 26 October 2004

Public Health, Parental Choice and Expert Knowledge: the Strange Case of the MMR Vaccine
Professor Tom Sorell, University of Essex
Wednesday 3 November 2004

Informed Consent: Myths and Misconceptions
Dr Neil Manson, King's College, Cambridge
Wednesday 10 November 2004

Social Research Ethics: Reflections on New Zealand Processes and Institutions
Dr Neil Lunt, Massey University, New Zealand
Wednesday 1 December 2004