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31 August 2010
As part of its ongoing investigation, the Council’s Working Party on New Approaches to Biofuels met with senior policy makers in July to discuss the policy issues raised by biofuels.
Policy representatives from governmental and national...
31 August 2010
Following a two-year inquiry, the Council will publish the report Medical profiling and online medicine: The ethics of 'personalised healthcare' in a consumer age on 12 October 2010.
A public seminar will be held in London to give people...
02 July 2010
The Council is delighted to have been awarded a Public Engagement grant by the Wellcome Trust to hold a deliberative workshop on the provision of bodily material for medical treatment and research.
Co-applicant Opinion Leader, a research-based...
22 June 2010
Scotland’s National Dementia Strategy, published on 1 June 2010, draws on the Council’s ethical framework for dementia and its recommendations on promoting the autonomy of people with dementia.
One of the key components of the...
02 June 2010
Recommendations made by the Council in its 2007 report 'Public health: ethical issues' have been strengthened today by a call from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) for the Government to address the problem...
21 May 2010
In the coalition document, the Government has stated under its plans for civil liberties that it will “adopt the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database”.
The full details are yet to be announced, but under the...
05 May 2010
The 2009 annual report is now available online. You can download the interactive PDF from our report download menu (click on annual reports tab).
Find out about all of last year’s activities and developments, including:
Publication...
04 May 2010
The 2010 Forward Look seminar took place on 26 and 27 April.
The Council considers future work topics at its annual Forward Look seminar. This year, three new topics were discussed by Council members and invited experts:
Genes and...
30 April 2010
Professor Inez de Beaufort gave the Council's 2010 annual lecture on ethics, obesity and public health, at the Royal Society.
Watch a video of the lecture.
Professor de Beaufort made arguments around four propositions:
1. An individual...
27 April 2010
The Council has held a series of fact finding meetings with biofuels specialists as part of its inquiry into the ethical issues raised by new approaches to biofuels.
The first meeting was held in early March and was attended by scientists from...
20 April 2010
The Council launched a public consultation on human bodies in medicine and research on 20 April 2010.
The Working Party is seeking people's views on a number of questions, including:
How far should we as a society go in encouraging or...
19 April 2010
Press Release
Should more people be expected to donate organs, eggs and sperm and, if so, how far can we ethically go in encouraging them to donate, asks the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in a consultation launched today. The Council is calling for the public...
31 March 2010
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has adopted the Council’s stewardship model for public health “as a reference point for guiding decisions about what types of intervention may be justified.”
The...
09 March 2010
Professor Inez de Beaufort, Professor of Health Care Ethics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, will give the Nuffield Council on Bioethics 2010 public lecture.
Whose potbelly is it anyway? Ethics, obesity and public health
Monday 26 April 2010...
18 February 2010
The Council invited a range of experts to a workshop in London on 25th November 2009 to discuss the ethical issues raised by the emergence of new technologies, such as nanotechnology and synthetic biology.
Policy-makers are faced with the...
05 February 2010
The Council has set up a new Working Party to consider the ethical issues raised by the provision of bodily material, such as organs, blood, gametes, bone and other tissues, and whole bodies, for medical treatment and research.
We can provide...
04 February 2010
A report on the assessment of ethics in the secondary science curriculum has been published by the Nuffield Foundation.
Download the report: Assessing Ethics in Secondary Science
The report follows a seminar convened by the Reaching Out to...
04 February 2010
The Council is delighted to announce the appointment of two new members from January 2010.
Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern FBA
Marilyn Strathern was Mistress of Girton College Cambridge until 2009 and was the William Wyse Professor of...
12 January 2010
The Council has launched a new resource for teachers based on its report on the ethical issues arising from the forensic use of bioinformation.
Download the free resource.
The activities aim to teach students to think about how bioinformation...
22 December 2009
Press Release
The UK Nuffield Council on Bioethics is today calling for people’s views on the potential of new types of biofuels, such as fuel produced by algae, to provide us with a greener source of renewable energy.
First generation biofuels are...
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