I
wondered if list members might be interested in the launch of our next report.
Details below.
Best
wishes
Catherine
Medical
profiling and online medicine: The ethics of 'personalised healthcare’ in
a consumer age
Launch
of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics report
Tuesday 12 October 2010, 13:30-16:30
The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1PL
New
developments in medical profiling and online medicine are promised by their
providers as leading to a new era of ‘personalised healthcare’.
These developments include:
·
the
commercial availability of body imaging (e.g. CT and MRI scans) as a health
check and personal genetic profiling for disease susceptibility
·
the
increase in websites that provide health advice, diagnosis, storage of health
records, and medicines for sale.
These
developments can give us increased choice and control over our health. Some may
provide reassurance that we are healthy or detect disease at an earlier stage.
However, they may also be difficult to interpret, create needless confusion or
anxiety and follow-up testing, or lead to misplaced complacency.
Following
a two-year inquiry, the UK’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics will publish a
report that examines the ethical issues and makes recommendations for policy
and practice.
Chair:
Dr Geoff Watts, Writer and Broadcaster
Speakers:
·
Christopher Hood, Chair of the Working Party and Professor of
Government, University of Oxford
·
Nikolas Rose, Professor of Sociology, BIOS Centre for the
Study of Bioscience, London School of Economics and Political Science
·
Jonathan Wolff, Professor of Philosophy, University College
London
·
Peter C Smith, Professor of Health Policy, Imperial
College Business School
Download
the agenda (PDF)
Copies
of the report will be available at the seminar. Admission is free but places
must be booked in advance. To book your place, please contact:
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0)20 7681 9619
For more information, please see: www.nuffieldbioethics.org/personalised
If
you are unable to attend the seminar, copies of the report will be available to
download from this website on 12 October. Printed copies can also be ordered in
advance using the same contact details as above. Printed copies are free if
ordered before 19 October. Following this, the report will cost £10 including
postage.
Catherine
Joynson
Communications Manager
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS
Phone: +44 (0)20 7681 9619
Mob: +44 (0)7747 635863
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