Choose a Life, Choose Your Life, Choose Life?
Bioethical Issues at the Beginning, Middle and End of Life
2nd June 2006, St Anne's College, Oxford
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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