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TOMORROW! 2016 KCL Bioethics & Society Conference

Posted on May 11, 2016 | Leave a comment

When: THURSDAY MAY 12, 2016

Where: S2.29 STRAND CAMPUS

9:30-10:00 Arrival, Meet & Greet with coffee & tea

10:00-10:10 Introductory Remarks by Dr Silvia Camporesi

10:10-11:10 SESSION 1  (chair Dr Annette Rid)

  1. 10:10-10:30 – Amber Collingwood, Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)
  2. 10:30-10:50– Francis Butcher, A qualitative study of ethical issues in recall by genotype studies
  3. 10:50-11:10 – Rachel Davies, Enrolling non-consenting patients into emergency care research

Comfort Break

11:30-12:45 SESSION 2  (chair Dr Silvia Camporesi)

  1. 11:30-11:50 –Edgar Ruiz Lopez, Understand exploitation in clinical research: surrogacy
  2. 11:50-12:10 – Shayda Kashef, An analysis of the moral obligations prospective parents with a family history of Huntington’s disease have if they wish to have genetically related children
  3. 12:10-12:45 CAREER SESSION with Hanna Gouta, Bioethics & Society alumna (Integrity UK)

Lunch 12:45–14:00

14:00-15:00 SESSION 3  (chair Dr Jon Ives)

  1. 14:00-14:20 – Maru Mormina, How to close the genomic gap: a solidaristic approach to capacity building
  2. 14:20-14:40  – Lukshmi Solos, The impact of self-perceptions on ageing: An ethnographic study in Ikaria
  3. 14:40-15:00 – Melissa Wood, An exploration of solidarity in family caregiving and U.S. public policy

Coffee Break

15:30- 17:00 SESSION 4 (chair Dr Silvia Camporesi)

  1. 15:30-15:50 – Rashi Jhunjhunwala, Identifying the distributive principles underlying the formulation of the Disease Control Priorities 3 Essential Surgery recommendations
  2. 15:50-16:10 – Savannah Ivy, Environmental connections to disease outbreaks
  3. 16:10-16:30 – Rachel Siden, Should law mandate vaccines to maintain vaccine coverage?

 Concluding remarks by Dr Jon Ives (External Examiner MA Bioethics & Society, University of Bristol)

Drinks to follow at a nearby pub!

The conference is made possible thanks to the support of the Faculty of Social Sciences & Public Policy Teaching Innovation Fund.

For inquiries contact Dr Silvia Camporesi: silvia.1.camporesi@kcl.ac.uk

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Podcast interview for UC Medical Humanities Press

Posted on May 2, 2016 | Leave a comment

It was great to be back at the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at UCSF for a few days last week. During my visit I gave a talk as part of the Culpeper Seminar Series on ethics of CRISPR genome editing technologies. I was also interviewed by Professor Brian Dolan, Director of UC Medical Humanities Press and Professor of Social Medicine at UCSF, about my book “From Bench to Bedside, to Track and Field: The Context of Enhancement and its Ethical Relevance” published for UC Medical Humanities Press.

In the podcast (available here) I discuss genome editing technologies to alter the human embryo and to select children’s traits, genetic technologies to enhance athletic performance, and doping in professional sport.

The podcast is available here:

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CRISPR Talks in the Bay Area April 26-28th 2016

Posted on April 25, 2016 | Leave a comment

I will be giving three talks on CRISPR genome editing in the Bay Area this week. Here are dates and info:

April 26th, Stanford CLB Lunch talk. For more info see here: https://law.stanford.edu/event/clb-lunch-talk-crispr/

April 27th, Department of Anthropology, History, and SOcial Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. For more info see here: http://dahsm.ucsf.edu/dahsm-events/

April 28th, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University: for more info see here: https://www.scu.edu/events/#view/event/event_id/17876

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