2018 Postgraduate Bioethics Conference: "Bioethics in the Public Square"

Date: 07/23/2018 to 07/24/2018

Location:
King’s College London’s Strand and Waterloo Campuses

Speaker: Professor Annelien Bredenoord (Utrecht University) *** Dr Silvia Camporesi (King’s College London) *** Professor John Harris (University of Manchester / King’s College London) *** Dr Jonathan Ives (University of Bristol) *** Dr Sridhar Venkatapuram (King’s College London) *** Dr Adrien Blau (King’s College London) *** Dr Cesar Palacios Gonzalez (King’s College London) *** Dr Karin Jongsma (Utrecht University) *** Dr Federica Lucivero (ETHOX Centre Oxford) *** Paul Woodgate (Wellcome Trust)

Further information: http://www.postgradbioethics.com/pgbc-2018/

Description: The PGBC is a two-day annual conference where Master’s and PhD students meet and share their bioethics research, as well as develop relevant skills for their academic and professional careers. Considering the multidisciplinary nature of this field of study, the PGBC welcomes postgraduate students from diverse academic backgrounds. As such, this call for abstracts is open to students working in bioethics from the perspectives of philosophy, law, medicine, sociology, and psychology, among many other academic disciplines.

This year, the theme of the conference will be Bioethics in the Public Square, focusing on debates within bioethics that extend into matters of political concern. These debates cover a wide range of topics relating to the construction of just societies, the boundaries of our political decisions, and the role bioethicists should play in liberal democracies. We welcome submissions related but not limited to the following topics:

- Fair access to new biotechnologies - Justice in the allocation of medical resources - The exploitative potential of practices like surrogacy and organ trade - Clinical research in socially disadvantaged populations - The preservation of the environment - Conscientious objection in medical practice - Mandatory vaccination - Policy and population control - Biobanks and privacy - The role of experts in the legislation of bioethical matters - The composition and the extent of the authority of ethics committees

Contact:
Postgrad.bioethics@outlook.com
http://www.postgradbioethics.com/

Organizer: Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London

Keywords: biotechnology; ethics committees; medical ethics; ecological ethics; organ/tissue transplantation