Preliminary programme
The conference is divided into three themes, one for each day of the conference. We also offer a social programme.
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Monday June 14: Should ideology be allowed to trump patient well-being?
Links to sessions with abstracts
- Plenary session
Kenyote speakers:
Hille Haker
Margit Sutrop
Keynote response:
Alastair V. Campbell
- Extra session on stem cell ethics
Keynote speaker:
Ruth Faden - Science, economy and ideology
- Contexts and experiences
- Best interests reconsidered
Tuesday June 15: What is the role of informed consent in medical research?
Links to sessions with abstracts
- Plenary session
Keynote speakers:
Tom L. Beauchamp
Anne Cambon-Thomsen
Keynote response
Marcel Verweij
- Broad consent and data mining
- Autonomy and informed consent
- Consent and research subjects with limited autonomy
- Informed consent in practice
Wednesday June 16: Ethical review boards: are they important ethical safeguards or over-burdensome and unnecessary bureaucracy?
Links to sessions with abstracts
- Plenary session
Keynote speakers:
Don Chalmers
Simon Whitney
Keynote response:
Søren Holm
- The legitimacy and function of ethical review boards
- Ethical review boards and research
- Challenges facing ethical review boards
- The norms and values of ethical review boards
The conferences is chaired by Mats G. Hansson and Ruth Chadwick
Organisers
The conference is arranged by Cesagen at the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff and the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University.
The Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics is an interfaculty centre at Uppsala University.
Cesagen is a collaborative research centre which is funded as part of the ESRC Genomics Network. The Centre is based at the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff.
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