SCHB Publications - categorised by subject
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Animal-human combinations
- Report: Animal-Human mixtures: Ethical discussion
- Press release: Concern about HFEA animal-human combinations decision - 5 September 2007
- Press release: Concern about animal-human combinations legislation - 1 August 2007
- Press release: New UK hybrid embryo legislation - 14 December 2006
- Press release: Animal-human hybrids and chimeras - 7 October 2006
- Press release: Human-rabbit embryos - 5 October 2006
- News item: Debate rages over animal-human chimeras - New Scientist - 11 August 2006
- News item: Human-animal mixing going too far - World Science - 9 August 2006
- News item: Scientists call for a ban on some embryo experiments - The Scotsman - 8 August 2006
- Press release: Animal-human mixtures - 7 August 2006
- Press release: Human-frog hybrid - 17 May 2004
- Press release: Human-Cow embryos - 15 September 2003
Bioethics
- Consultation: Research ethics committees - 12 August 2005
- Consultation: Ethics of prolonging life in fetuses and newborn - 9 June 2005
- Consultation: Universal norms on bioethics - 25 November 2004
- Consultation: Declaration on Bioethics - 24 May 2004
- Conference: Declaration on universal norms on bioethics - UNESCO, April 2004
- Conference: Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights - UNESCO, June 2003
- Hippocratic Oath
Disability
- Position statement: Advance Directives
- Consultation: Adult support and Protection (Scotland) Bill - 18 August 2006
- Consultation: Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act - 4 November 2005
- Consultation: Human Tissue Bill - Issues relating to adults with incapacity - 31 October 2005
- Consultation: Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act: Code of Practice - 28 October 2005
- Consultation: Protecting vulnerable adults - 23 September 2005
- Consultation: Mental Health Act: Regulations - 29 June 2004
- Consultation: Mental Health Act: Code of Practice - 29 June 2004
- Consultation: Mental Incapacity Bill - 1 September 2003
- Briefing: Advance Directives - response to Voluntary Euthanasia Society - 29 August 2003
- Consultation: Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act - 30 June 2003
- Conference: Adults with Incapacity Act - Law Society of Scotland, British Medical Association, June 2003
- Briefing: Mental health (Scotland) Bill - 19 March 2003
Embryos, cloning, genetic screening, assisted reproduction
- Press release: Genetic transfer between fertilised eggs - 14 April 2010
- Consultation: Scientific developments relating to the Abortion Act 1967 - 2 September 2007
- Press release: New UK fertility legislation: need for a father - 14 December 2006
- Consultation: Donating eggs for research - 8 December 2006
- Press release: Premature infants - 15 November 2006
- Press release: Regulation of embryo research - 7 September 2006
- Briefing: Patenting of human embryonic stem cells - 30 August 2006
- Press release: IVF eggs for cloning research - 27 July 2006
- Press release: Embryo screening - 19 June 2006
- Briefing: European funding of embryo research - 7 June 2006
- Press release: Human cloning - 5 June 2006
- Press release: European Court of Human Rights: Use of frozen embryos - 7 March 2006
- Consultation: 'Choices and Boundaries' - genetic selection - 16 January 2006
- Conference: To be or not to be? Exploring the ethical implications of embryo selection - 14 January 2006
- Conference: ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum Launch - 22 September 2005
- Consultation: Review of Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act - 25 November 2005
- Press release: PGD-mediated eugenics - 10 November 2005
- Conference: ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum Launch - 22 September 2005
- Consultation: Ethics of prolonging life in fetuses and newborn - 9 June 2005
- Consultation: Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law - 18 April 2005
- Consultation: Tomorrow's Children - 7 April 2005
- Press release: Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law - 24 March 2005
- Conference: Putting stem cells into practice - PET Annual Conference - 15 March 2005
- Conference: HFEA Annual Conference - 15 March 2005
- Press release: Stem cell research - 7 March 2005
- Press release: Human embryonic cloning - 8 February 2005
- Press release: Vendor assisted conception - 3 February 2005
- Consultation: Regulation of donor-assisted conception - 1 February 2005
- Press release: IVF Rules - 13 January 2005
- Consultation: Choosing the future - 11 November 2004
- Press release: Embryo screening - 1 November 2004
- Press release: Survival at 22 weeks - 24 August 2004
- Press release: Human cloning licence - 12 August 2004
- Briefing: Embryo research - oral briefing to Science and Technology Committee - 23 June 2004
- Press release: Therapeutic human cloning - 16 June 2004
- Consultation: Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law - 25 May 2004
- Conference: GATTACA - Edinburgh Science Festival, April 2004
- Conference: Human Embryos - Is it right to use them in research and medicine? - Society for Experimental Biology, March 2004
- Conference: Stemming the Tide of Incurable Diseases - Edinburgh Science Festival, April 2004
- Conference: Cloning and the Biotech Future - SCHB, January 2004
- Conference: Bioethics education and Biobanks - Council of Europe, December 2003
- Conference: Cloning and the Biotech Future - Centre for Bioethics and Public Policy, November 2003
- Press release: Sex Selection Report - 11 November 2003
- Press release: Embryo battle - 1 October 2003
- Press release: IVF - mix-up child - 22 August 2003
- Press release: 'Designer babies' - 19 June 2003
- Paper: Is regulation of human cloning necessary? - by Alejo Sánchez-Vivar
- Paper: Stem cell research - by Kevin Dillon
Euthanasia, assisted suicide
- Position statement: Advance Directives
- Position statement: Assisted Suicide (pdf 132kB) - March 2010
- Position statement: Euthanasia (pdf 128kB) - March 2010
- Position statement: Withholding nutrition and hydration
- Press release: Attorney General Assisted Suicide Proposals - 23 September 2009
- Press release: Debby Purdie Assisted Dying Proposals - 30 July 2009
- Press release: Assisted Dying Bill - 12 May 2006
- Press release: Provision of food and fluids - 15 May 2005
- Press release: Assisted Dying Bill - 1 April 2005
- Letter: Time to legalise assisted dying? - letter to the BMJ - 8 October 2005
- Conference: Dying with Dignity Bill - 11 May 2005
- Conference: Euthanasia - A good death? - SCHB, 15 January 2005
- Press release: 'Dying with dignity' - 11 November 2004
- Press release: Voluntary Euthanasia Society survey - 9 September 2004
- Briefing: Euthanasia - briefing to House of Lords - 9 July 2004
- Press release: European euthanasia vote - 22 April 2004
- Briefing: Euthanasia - comments on report by Council of Europe (3) - 15 April 2004
- Press release: Right to food and fluids - 26 February 2004
- Press release: Euthanasia - Council of Europe - 30 September 2003
- Briefing: Euthanasia - comments on report by Council of Europe (2) - 15 September 2003
- Briefing: Euthanasia - comments on report by Council of Europe (1) - 1 September 2003
- Briefing: Advance Directives - response to Voluntary Euthanasia Society - 29 August 2003
- Press release: Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill - 6 June 2003
- Briefing: Patient (Assisted Dying) Bill - 29 May 2003
Sexual health
- Paper: Morning-After Pill (.pdf file, 250kB)
- Report: Informing Choice - New Approaches and Ethics for Sex and Relationships Education in Scotland
- Press release: Sex education - 27 January 2005
- Conference: Sexual Health of the Nation - House of Commons , November 2003
Transplantation of organs
- Briefing: Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 27 January 2006
- Press release: Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 27 January 2006
- Briefing: Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 19 January 2006
- Press release: Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 10 January 2006
- Press release: Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 16 December 2005
- Briefing: Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 11 December 2005
- Consultation: Human Tissue Bill - Issues relating to adults with incapacity - 31 October 2005
- Briefing: Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 17 October 2005
- Consultation: Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 24 August 2005
- Press release: Human Tissue (Scotland) Bill - 22 August 2005
- Conference: Human Transplantation and the Post-mortem Retention of Body Parts - Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, August 2004
- Consultation: Organ and Tissue Donation - 9 June 2004