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Forthcoming events
- Workshop on ethics & chronic illness: QUB, Belfast (6-7th September)
Dr Tom Walker is organising a workshop on ethics and chronic illness to take place at QUB on the 6th/7th September (more details below). The workshop is free, but if you are interested in attending, please contact Tom on: tom.walker@qub.ac.uk as soon as possible.
- Thursday 6th September — Room TR6, Graduate School, QUB
- Session 1: 10.00-12.15
- Nancy Berlinger (The Hastings Center): Spatial justice in ageing societiesAnn Gallagher (University of Surrey): Slow ethics, chronicity and elder care
- Session 2: 12.45-14.45
- Mark Schweda (University of Goettingen): Between fatalism and responsibilization: Ethical aspects of dementia prevention
- Gry Wester (King’s College London): TBC
- Session 3: 15.00-16.00
- Michael Dunn (University of Oxford): TBC
- Friday 7th September — Room TR6, Graduate School, QUB
- Session 4: 10.15-12.15
- Nancy Jecker (University of Washington): Threats to dignity in later life: A life stages approach
- Christopher Wareham (University of Witwatersrand): Age and well-being: Ethical implications of the U-curve of happiness
- Session 5: 13.00-15.00
- James Wilson (UCL): TBC
- Tom Walker (Queen’s University Belfast): A capabilities approach to problems of patient non-adherence
- Session 6: 15.15-16.00
- Roundtable discussion
- PSAI ANNUAL CONFERENCE 12-13 Oct. 2018, STRAND HOTEL LIMERICK.
- Friday 12th October: Session 2 – 4.00-5.10pm (Henihan Room 6th floor)
- The Politics of Science and Biomedicine in Ireland.
- Chair: Vittorio Bufacchi (UCC)
- Bioethical oversight, genome-editing and the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill – some considerations from the divergent Irish and UK approaches – Oliver Feeney (NUIG/DCU)
- Deliberation and participation in research with moral connotations: some lessons from Brazil and Spain – Maureen O’Sullivan (NUIG)
- Propositions of Life Itself: first steps towards aligning biopolitical theories with Irish reproductive politics – Padraig Murphy (DCU)
For further details, go to: https://psai2018.wordpress.com/
- World Bioethics Day Symposium 2018
- More details soon
- Communicating Bioethics workshop 2019
- More details soon
UNESCO Bioethics Ireland projects & collaborations
- Council of the European Division of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics project: ‘Electronic health records and vulnerable migrants in Europe’ (coordinated by Dr Oliver Feeney) – Password protected page
