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Brain Death and Brainstem Death

A Bios Centre seminar on ‘Brain Death and Brainstem Death: A Critical Update’ presented by D Alan Shewmon MD, Emeritus Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of… MORE

Leadbeater Committee on assisted dying – Bios Centre evidence published.

The Bios Centre’s evidence to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee on assisted dying has been published by the Committee and is available here. MORE

Assisted dying: Australian and UK perspectives (panel discussion video now on YouTube)

On 29 January, Bios Centre hosted an online panel discussion on ‘Assisted dying: Australian and UK perspectives’ with the Hon. Robert Clark (former attorney-general of Victoria, Australia), Dr Greg Pike… MORE

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

A post by Bios Centre research fellow Dr Ilaria Bertini on Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has been published on the Journal of Medical Ethics blog. MORE

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