Events
SCHB Annual Conferences
- Am I a donor before I am dead? - January 2010
- Animal-Human hybrids - January 2009
- Human Dignity: What is it, and how should we respect it? - January 2008
- Do I belong to my family? Exploring the ethical implications of biological relationships - January 2007
- To be or not to be? Exploring the ethical implications of embryo selection - January 2006
- Euthanasia - A good death? - January 2005
- Cloning and the Biotech Future - January 2004
Venue: Lister Institute, Hill Square, Edinburgh
Speakers:
Ms Lesley Logan: Organ Donation: A Scottish overview
Mr William Scott: Organ donation and transplantation in the Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006
Dr Joyce Stuart: Presumed consent - Whose body is it anyway?
Mr Tom Russell: When are we dead?
Film Festivals
SCHB has instigated a series of Film Festivals in which a number of thought-provoking films related to a bioethical topic are screened for the genereal public, and each film is followed by a discussion between a panel of invited biomedical and bioethics experts, politicans and members of the audience. So far, the venue has been the Edinburgh Filmhouse (www.filmhousecinema.com), but we hope to include other places in due course.
- Eugenics: Science Fiction or Future Reality? - November 2009.
- End of Life issues - November 2008.
- Biological Kinship identity - November 2007
- The ethics of transplantation and xenotransplantation - November 2006
- The ethics of cloning - November 2005
For reviews of this film festival see
www.bionews.org.uk/page_51767.asp
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Are we already creating a super race? - an article in LabNews
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Other events
- Public meeting: The Principle of Conscientious Objection in the UK
- Public debate: Assisted suicide: A good death, or a choice too far? - 13 November 2009
- ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum Launch - 22 September 2005
- Dying with Dignity Bill - 11 May 2005
- Meeting the challenges of changing societies - Conference of National Ethics Committees - 25-6 April 2005
- Putting stem cells into practice - PET Annual Conference - 15 March 2005
- HFEA Annual Conference - 15 March 2005
- Human Transplantation and the post-mortem retention of body parts - Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, August 2004
- Declaration on universal norms on bioethics - UNESCO, April 2004
- Stemming the Tide of Incurable Diseases - Edinburgh Science Festival, April 2004
- GATTACA - Edinburgh Science Festival, April 2004
- Human Embryos - Is it right to use them in research and medicine? - Society for Experimental Biology, March 2004
- Bioethics education and Biobanks - Council of Europe, December 2003
- Cloning and the Biotech Future - Centre for Bioethics and Public Policy, November 2003
- Sexual Health of the Nation - House of Commons , November 2003
- Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights - UNESCO, June 2003
- Innogen Launch - University of Edinburgh, June 2003
- Adults with Incapacity Act - Law Society of Scotland, British Medical Association, June 2003
Speaker: William Taylor M.A. (Bioethics)
Date: Saturday 8 May 2010, at 14.00-15.30
Venue: Eric Liddell Centre, 15 Morningside Road, Edinburgh EH10 4DP
Free admission - All welcome
Speakers:
Wesley J Smith - an author and lawyer, attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant for the Centre for Bioethics and Culture.
Dr Libby Wilson - a highly experienced former GP, and currently works as the Convenor and Senior Medical Advisor to Friends at the End, an organisation campaigning for greater choices at the end of life.
Venue: Assembly Hall, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX
The event was organised by the Trinity Forum Europe with support from the John Templeton Foundation, and in conjunction with the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics.