News - Bios Centre

Assisted Suicide in Oregon – Zoom Seminar on 21 November

Dr Thomas Finegan will present an online seminar on the topic ‘Reflections on Assisted Suicide in Oregon’ on 21 November at 6pm GMT. To register for the seminar, email info@bioscentre.org. MORE

Young children’s best interests and treatment withdrawal

Bios research fellow Dr Ilaria Bertini has a paper in the Child and Family Law Quarterly on young children’s best interests and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. MORE

Double effect and doing/allowing

Fiona Woollard, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, gave this month’s seminar on the moral significance of two distinctions: doing/allowing and intending/foreseeing (double effect). A video of her… MORE

Martha’s Rule: Post on Journal of Medical Ethics blog

A post by Bios Centre research fellow Dr Ilaria Bertini on the upcoming implementation of Martha’s Rule providing for a swift second medical opinion has been published on the Journal… MORE

Transplantation: philosophical questions

Professor Ana Iltis, Director of the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society at Wake Forest University, who recently become a Bios Centre Patron, gave a seminar to Bios this week… MORE

Indi Gregory: Post on Journal of Medical Ethics blog

A post by Bios Centre research fellow Dr Ilaria Bertini on the case of Indi Gregory is now online on the Journal of Medical Ethics blog. MORE

Submission to Health and Social Care Committee Inquiry on Assisted dying/assisted suicide

The Bios Centre’s submission has just been published with other evidence to the Inquiry. MORE

Perinatal Hospice Care (workshop presentation)

Dr Helen Watt spoke recently on ‘Perinatal Hospice Care’ at a workshop at London Metropolitan University on ‘Spaces of Birth’ – see here for the video. MORE

Summer Day Conference on Coercion, Law and Healthcare

Our Summer Day Conference on Coercion, Law and Healthcare: Ethical and Social Perspectives will be held on Saturday 24 June in the Terrace Gallery of the Museum of London. Speakers… MORE

Reproductive Coercion: new publication by Dr Greg Pike

Earlier this year, Bios senior research fellow Dr Greg Pike gave a seminar on ‘Reproductive Coercion: Are We Missing Something?’ We are pleased to announce that Dr Pike’s research in… MORE

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