Bioethics Centre
'... not just the premier Christian bioethics
institute in Britain, but one of the finest in
the
world, Christian or secular'.
Most Rev. Anthony Fisher O.P.,
Bishop of Parramatta, Australia.
The Anscombe Centre is a Roman Catholic academic institute that engages with the moral questions arising in clinical practice and biomedical research. It brings to bear on those questions principles of natural law, virtue ethics, and the teaching of the Catholic Church, and seeks to develop the implications of that teaching for emerging fields of practice. The Centre engages in scholarly dialogue with academics and practitioners of other traditions. It contributes to public policy debates as well as to debates and consultations within the Church. It runs educational programmes for, and gives advice to, Catholics and other interested healthcare professionals and biomedical scientists. For more information please see the About Us section...
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Professor Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University, delivered the 2011 Anscombe Memorial Lecture on "Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Embryo Debate", at St John's College, Oxford on Friday 21st October 2011.
A podcast of this paper is available in our 'Multimedia' section here
The conference was attended by over 100 delegates, in person and live online. We hope that many of the papers will be published in the journal Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics. Please visit www.bioethics.org.uk/webcast where some summaries and handouts are still available.The conference poster is available here.
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Professor Luke Gormally, Director Emeritus of the Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics (now the Anscombe Bioethics Centre) was announced earlier this year as the 2011 recipient of the Paul Ramsey Award of the Center for Bioethics and Culture (San Francisco). Previous recipients have been: Edmund Pellegrino (2004), Germain Grisez (2005), John Finnis (2006), William E May (2007), Albert Moraczewski OP (2008), Gilbert Meilaender (2009), Leon Kass (2010). The award banquet was held on Friday 25th March in San Francisco. We wish him many congratulations.
http://www.cbc-network.org/ramsey/winner.htm
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'instructive and illuminating essays by some of the most well-informed, deeply thoughtful, and analytically rigorous scholars working in this area today' Robert P. George
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