Bioethics Centre
Human Embryo Research: Law Ethics and Public Policy an international conference hosted by the Anscombe Centre, co-sponsored by Blackfriars Hall, will be broadcast here, live from Corpus Christi College, Oxford between 0930 and 1730 on Thursday 8th September (These times are BST). The itinerary, speaker biographies and some handouts are available below.
It will be possible for online viewers to submit questions to the panel in both the morning and afternoon discussion sessions. Please email stephen@bioethics.org.uk on the day of or during the conference, indicating your name and affiliation.
Itinerary
Morning: Law and its rationale
9.30-9.40 Introduction and welcome
9.40-10.20 Christian Hillgruber: ‘Embryonic Stem Cell Research and the German Basic Law’
10.20-11.00 Jean-René Binet: ‘Embryonic Stem Cells and the new French Bioethics Law’
11.00-11.20 Coffee Break
11.20-11.40 Laura Palazzani: ‘Embryo Research in Italy: The Bioethical Debate’
11.40-12.00 William Binchy: ‘Legal Regulation of Research: Key Issues of Principle’
12.00-12.40 Panel Discussion
12.40-2.20pm Lunch
Afternoon: Ethics and its application
2.20-3.00 David Albert Jones: ‘The moral status of the human embryo in public policy in the United Kingdom: Gradualist language but emotivist use ’
3.00-3.40 Michael Hauskeller: ‘“Human Dignity” and “Instrumentalisation” as applied to the Human Embryo’
3.40-4.00 Break
4.00-4.20 Carter Snead: ‘Funding Restrictions as a Means of Bioethics Regulation: An Ethical Compromise?’
4.20-4.40 Helen Watt: ‘Regulation and Complicity: Preventing Without Prescribing Harm’
4.40-5.20 Panel Discussion
5.20-5.30 Final Reflections
Speaker Biographies available here.
Handouts
- Professor Hillgruber plus Embryo Protection Act and Basic Law Extract and Stem Cell Act
- Professor Binet
- Professor Palazzani
- Professor Binchy
- Dr David Albert Jones
- Professor Hauskeller
- Professor Snead
- Dr Helen Watt