Human Embryo Research: Law, Ethics and Public Policy

Date: 09/08/2011, 09:30-17:30h

Location:
Corpus Christi College
Merton Street
Oxford OX1 4JF
Vereinigtes Königreich

Further information: http://www.bioethics.org.uk/static_content.php?key_id=defaul...

Description: Should the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority be consigned to the ‘bonfire of the quangos’? Should we accept the principle that ‘the embryo of the human species should be afforded some protection in law‘? Or do we think that, ‘You cannot respectfully pour something down the sink, which is the fate of the embryo after it has been used for research’? Do we agree with Leon Kass that, ‘even in the zygote, we face a mysterious and awesome power, a power governed by an immanent plan that may produce an indisputably and fully human being’? Or do we prefer the clear assertion of Julian Savulescu that ‘the embryo does not have a moral status above that which is derived from the interests of a couple or individual to have a child’? The conference will give time to the ethical discussions that do or should shape the law. There will be exploration not only of the status of the human embryo but also of the use of concepts such as human dignity and instrumentalisation in relation to the human embryo.

Contact:
Gwen McCourt
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre
17 Beaumont Street
Oxford OX1 2NA
Vereinigtes Königreich
Phone: +44-1865 610 212
Fax: +44-1865 610 213
g.mccourt@bioethics.org.uk
http://www.bioethics.org.uk/static_content.php?key_id=default&page_id=news_and_events

Organizer: The Anscombe Bioethics Centre

Keywords: embryo research; research ethics; medical ethics