I look forward to participating in the Imagine! Festival of Ideas in Belfast on March 19th.
I will be discussing the socio-ethical implications of CRISPR genome editing. FOr more information and to register (free event!) click here:
https://imaginebelfast.com/events/editing-the-genome/
Don’t miss a great seminar on Thursday at KCL!
We are delighted to announce the new event of the KCL/UCL Colloquium which will take place next Thursday, 4th February 2016. Professor Bronwyn Parry, Department of Social Science Health & Medicine, will give a paper titled“Ethics in a cultural context: Situating surrogate labour as an exploitative practice”.
When: 4:00 pm -530 pm seminar
Where: KCL Strand Campus, Somerset House East Wing, SW1.17/18
You can read Prof Bronwyn Parry’s opinion piece on “May the surrogate speak?” for Open Democracy here:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/bronwn-parry/may-surrogate-speak
For inquiries about the seminar series please contact Dr Annette Rid: annette.rid@kcl.ac.uk
Posted in Bioethics
There are only a couple of days left to submit an abstract for the Institute of Medical Ethics invites abstracts for its forthcoming conference, which will be held on Saturday 18 June 2016, Edinburgh.
The conference is a one-day event, designed to give opportunities for academics, clinicians and students involved in biomedical ethics research to present their current work.
Professor Ilina Singh
We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers for the 2016 edition will be Ilina Singh, Professor of Neuroscience & Society at Oxford http://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/team/ilina-singh), and Richard Ashcroft, Professor of Bioethics at Queen Mary University (http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/staff/ashcroft.html).
Professor Richard Ashcroft
The conference organisers welcome submissions from a range of disciplines relevant to bioethics, including medical ethics, medicine, healthcare, philosophy, social sciences, law and public policy. In addition to submissions from established academics, early career researchers and healthcare professionals, we also encourage submissions from postgraduate and undergraduate students.
Download the abstract submission form here. Deadline for submissions: 18 January 2016. Email submissions to: research@instituteofmedicalethics.org
IME Research Committee: Dr Carwyn Hooper (Chair), Rev Bryan Vernon, Dr Anna Smajdor, Dr. Zoe Fritz, Dr Lucy Frith, Dr Merryn Ekberg, Dr Silvia Camporesi and Ms Emma Nottingham.
For further information please contact: Dr. Carwyn Rhys Hooper, Chair of the IME Research Committee and Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, St George’s, University of London chooper@sgul.ac.uk
Follow IME on twitter for updates and news: https://twitter.com/IMEweb
Prof. Silvia Camporesi 
You must be logged in to post a comment.