KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Stuart Derbyshire (Psychology, Birmingham): “The difficulty of locating the beginnings of pain”. David Bain (Philosophy, Glasgow): “Pain and Imperatives” CALL FOR PAPERS If you are a postgraduate (taught or research) student working on pain, you are invited to submit an abstract for presentation at the workshop. Deadline is 30th April. A contribution to […]
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Resource: Bioethics in NewsFilm Online
This seems like a useful new resource. There is an archive :NewsFilm Online (NFO, www.nfo.ac.uk). This archive now hosts some 60,000 news clips produced by ITN and Reuters in collaboration with the British Universities Film & Video Council and EDINA went live in October 2008. Despite the fact that NFO includes footage of many bioethics-related […]
Manchester MA/ Intercalated MSc in Health Care Ethics & Law – Open Preview Event
University of Manchester The Centre for Social Ethics and Policy at the University of Manchester has places available on its MA and Intercalated MSc in Health Care Ethics & Law programmes for the academic year 2010-11; further details can be found via the link at www.law.manchester.ac.uk/csep. There will be an open event on the 3rd […]
Acronym Overload: HoC S&TC report on homeopathy published…
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee’s report on homeopathy was published today (and is available here). The findings have not been diluted; the Committee didn’t sugar the sugar pill. […]
Parachuting to the Front of the Queue?
A curious letter was sent out by the Department of Health the other day to GPs and the Chief Executives of various health authorities, trusts, and so on. The full text is available online, but here’s the nub of it: ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES FOR MILITARY VETERANS – PRIORITY TREATMENT The purpose of this letter […]
A Very Small Post about Homeopathy
I know I keep stressing the distinction between ethics and activist – and how it’s usually just before I witter on about something vaguely activistic. However, I do think it’s worth popping over to look at the 10:23 Campaign, which takes a robust and sceptical attitude to homeopathy. If you’re not sure about why it’s […]
Libel Reform (again)
Further to Søren’s post just below here, it’s worth noting that the site to which he links hosts not only a petition, but also a facility whereby it’ll check who your MP is, and provide a pro-forma letter that you can edit and then email to him or her from the site. I filled that in […]
Applied Clinical Ethics Course, Imperial College
February – June 2010, covering clinical ethics in theory and practice; autonomy issues; end-of-life issues; law and justice; moral dilemmas in practice. Full details here […]
Free stuff!
Philosophy books are expensive. Never fear: Librivox has loads of free audiobooks. The search is not the most efficient I’ve seen, but there’s definitely some Kant and some Mill (and some HP Lovecraft) on there, so it’s hard to complain. (Though I’m kind of in agreement with Brian Leiter when he comments that “Of course, […]
“Ethics” and PEA Soup to Link
Reproduced from the PEA Soup blog: We are very pleased to announce a new partnership between PEA Soup and the distinguished journal, Ethics. In addition to our regular postings, PEA Soup’s editors will select one article from each issue of Ethics to be the focus of a featured discussion on our blog. Ethics, in turn, will make an on-line […]