The Anscombe Bioethics Centre

The Anscombe Centre holds regular national and international conferences. Along with other educational events, the Anscombe Centre hosts a research seminar in Oxford and a monthly forum for junior healthcare professionals and students in London.

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Events

Oxford Research Seminar: 6.30pm-8.30pm, 17 Beaunont St.
*Tuesday 6th March 2012 Dr Dominic Kelly "Ethics of Vaccines and Vaccination"
*Tuesday 8th May 2012: Catholic Perspectives on Organ Transplantation

Conference announcement:Human Dignity in Healthcare 18th June 2012

Prof. Daniel P. Sulmasy will deliver the keynote presentation at this international day conference. Click here to book your place.

Prof. Daniel Sulmasy is the Centre's Visiting Research Fellow for 2012, and will be involved in a number of events. He will deliver a lecture on "Evidence-based Bioethics: Myth or Reality?" at the Royal Sociey of Medicine on 20th June 2012, and will deliver the keynote lecture at a conference on "Human Dignity" in Oxford on 18th June 2012 ~(see above and herefor the poster). Please contact admin@bioethics.org.uk for further information about these events.

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Human Embryo Research: Law, Ethics and Public Policy. 9.30am - 5.30pm on Thursday 8th September 2011, at Corpus Christi College, Merton Street, Oxford, OX1 4JF.
The conference poster, with information about the speakers, venue and concession rates, is available here.

Speakers included:
Christian Hillgruber, Professor of law in Bonn, Germany
Jean-René Binet, Professeur de droit privé à l'Université de Franche-Comté, France
Laura Palazzani, Professor of Philosophy of Law at Lumsa University, Rome, Italy
William Binchy, Regius Professor of Law at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford, UK
Michael Hauskeller, Associate Professor of Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter, UK
Carter Snead, Professor of Law at Notre Dame, USA
Helen Watt, Senior Research Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford, UK

Professor John Keown, of Georgetown University, an Anscombe Centre Visiting Research Fellow for 2010/2011, spoke in the House of Lords on 16th May on the topic of 'The Provision of Palliative Care: An Ethical and Legal Duty?'. For more information see HERE.

Our recent international conference on Double Effect conference was webcast live on Saturday 19th February here. To download the poster for this conference - click here. (handouts are available). We also hosted a small workshop on Double Effect on Friday 18th February, led by Prof. Joseph Boyle. Please see links on the left for further details.

News

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Professor Luke Gormally, Director Emeritus of the Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics (now the Anscombe Bioethics Centre) has been announced 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 will be 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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Please see the link for our press release on the Pope's statement on HIV and Condoms
ABC - Comment on the Pope's statement on HIV and Condoms
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Inaugural Anscombe Lecture by Sir Anthony Kenny
Sir Anthony Kenny, the distinguished philosopher and former Pro-Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, gave the first Annual Elizabeth Anscombe Memorial Lecture on 'The place of intention in ethics' on Monday 25th October. The lecture was sponsored by the Anscombe Bioethics Centre and this first lecture formally marked the move of the Centre to Oxford. Founded in 1977 (originally known as the Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics), the Anscombe Bioethics Centre is the longest established bioethics centre in the United Kingdom. It is seeking to work with Blackfriars in promoting academic research in medical ethics.

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