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From: "Helen Lambert" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 3:02 PM
Subject: Conference: Bioethical Issues, Oxford (fwd)
> Choose a Life, Choose Your Life, Choose Life?
>
> Bioethical Issues at the Beginning, Middle and End of Life
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> 2nd June 2006, St Anne's College, Oxford
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> An interdisciplinary symposium presented by the Oxford Forum for Medical
> Humanities, which aims to promote discussion of legal and ethical issues
> in
> medicine between the disciplines of medicine, history, law, theology and
> philosophy.
>
> Medical advances such as IVF (in-vitro fertilisation), genetic testing,
> therapeutic cloning and medical interventions, which now can extend our
> life longer then ever before, have profoundly altered the choices we may
> make about the medical treatment of our bodies. While the bioethical
> issues
> these developments raise have been widely considered within a range of
> disciplines, there are benefits to be had from drawing together the
> perspectives of different disciplines. This meeting aims to facilitate
> this kind of multi-disciplinary approach to examining the ethical issues
> raised by choices about life, during life. It seeks to bring together
> theologians, philosophers, lawyers, historians, anthropologists and
> clinicians to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion under the broad
> heading of 'medical humanities'. In doing so, this meeting aims to promote
> a more holistic approach to considering these ethical concerns.
> Sessions and speakers
> Choose a Life: Selecting Embryos, Using Embryos Reverend Dr David Cook,
> Fellow and Chaplain, Green College, University of Oxford A.M. Viens, DPhil
> student and senior scholar, Hertford College, University of Oxford Dr Jan
> Deckers, Lecturer in Health Care Ethics, University of Newcastle
> Choose Your Life: Enhancement and Autonomy Dr Ainsley Newson, Lecturer in
> Biomedical Ethics, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, Bristol University
> Professor Julian Savulescu, Oxford Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics,
> University of Oxford Reverend Professor Keith Ward, Regius Professor of
> Divinity, Gresham College, London and Emeritus Student of Christ Church
> Choose Life: Euthanasia Baroness Mary Warnock, DBE Dr Michael Wilks,
> Chairman, Medical Ethics and Medico-Legal Committees, British Medical
> Association Charles Foster, Outer Temple Chambers, London For information
> about registration please contact: Angeliki Kerasidou (Secretary) Oxford
> Forum for Medical Humanities c/o MCR, Harris Manchester College Oxford
> OX1 3TD
> [log in to unmask] Or see the MHF website at
> http://www.ethox.org.uk/conf/medhumanities/medical-humanities.htm
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