Over the years, the Council has invited a number of distinguished guest speakers to give international and multi-disciplinary perspectives on bioethics issues of their choice. Our public lectures are free to attend and open to anyone.
2015 – In conversation with Dr Amy Gutmann
Hosted by Dr Geoff Watts, Council member, science writer and broadcaster.
Dr Amy Gutmann is Chair, US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, President and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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2014 – Bioethics in 2025: what will be the challenges?
Professor Deborah Bowman, Professor of Bioethics, Clinical Ethics and Medical Law at St. George’s, University of London
Dr Sarah Chan, Research Fellow in Bioethics, University of Manchester
Dr Molly Crockett, Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford
Dr Gill Haddow, Senior Research Fellow, Science Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh
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2013 – Freedom of speech, scientific freedom and public safety: a two pipe problem with a dual remedy solution
Professor John Harris, Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester
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2012 – Are global health policies good for public health in developing countries?
Dr Amar Jesani, Editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics and Trustee of trustee of Anusandhan Trust
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2011 – Broadening bioethics: clinical ethics, public health and global health
Baroness Onora O’Neill CBE FBA, Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
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2010 – Whose potbelly is it anyway? Ethics, obesity and public health
Professor Inez de Beaufort, Professor of Health Care Ethics at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam
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2009 – New genetic recipes: are we cooking up trouble with synthetic biology?
Dr Thomas H Murray, President and CEO of The Hastings Center, US
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2008 – The ranking of values as a basis for ethical decision making
Professor Göran Hermerén, Chair of the European Group on Ethics and Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Lund
2005 – Equity and health: A bioethics agenda for the next decade
Professor Norman Daniels, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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