Titel: Biomedical Ethics Summer School: Neuroscience, Ethics and Society
Termin: 26.9.2005 bis 29.9.2005
Veranstaltungsort:
Oxford, UK
Weitere Informationen:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_wtx025299.html
Identify emerging research questions in neuroethics with a view to exploring the potential of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to investigating ethical, legal, social and public policy implications of advances in biomedical science;
Expand awareness of a variety of research methods that can be employed in biomedical ethics research;
Stimulate and provide practical advice on grant applications to the Biomedical Ethics funding programme;
Highlight excellence in and explore the application of biomedical ethics research.
Who is the course designed for?
Applications are invited from junior researchers (ie PhDs, new postdocs) in disciplines relevant to biomedical ethics, including (though not restricted to) the following philosophy, social sciences, law, political sciences and theology.
Applications are also invited from established researchers in the biomedical sciences who wish to move into the field of biomedical ethics.
What will the course cover?
The School will involve a mixture of plenary, research methods and group work sessions. The plenaries will address the state of the science; researching the ethical, legal, social and policy implications of developments in neuroscience; the ethics of research and treatment; and, getting research into policy and practice.
Students will be encouraged to think in cross-disciplinary ways, working up outline research proposals within the following broad themes for presentation to the group -
Communication, choice and consent in clinical practice;
Experience and identity;
Changing accounts of behaviour, deviance, disease and disability;
Analysing the ethics of research;
Governance and legal regulations of research, clinical practice and emerging technologies.
Kontakt:
Jackie Titley
Programme Officer, Biomedical Ethics
Medical Humanities Department
Wellcome Trust
215 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
Tel.: +44 - (0)20 - 76 11 88 88
j.titley@wellcome.ac.uk
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/
Veranstalter: The Wellcome Trust