Titel: Food, Ethics and the Public's Health

Beginn: 2.6.2005, 9:30 -16:45 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort:
Spode Room
Hawthorns Conference Centre

Referenten: Dr. Angus Dawson (Keele University) * Franck Meijboom (Utrecht University) * David Barling (City University) * James Wilson (Keele University) * Doris Schroeder (University of Central Lancashire) * Mark Sheehan (Keele University)

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ep/peak/confs.html#FEPH

Kurzbeschreibung: This workshop focuses on the relationship between food and health. Food ethics is a growing area of academic activity, as the production, marketing and consumption of food all raise ethical issues. This workshop has a special emphasis upon public health considerations in relation to food. For example, what obligations are there to ensure that the food we eat is produced safely and/or is nutritious? Should the government intervene to ensure that our diets are healthy, or is this an illegitimate form of state paternalism? What role should individual choice play in food policy? Should food be modified to improve our health? What ethical issues arise in relation to genetic modification of foodstuffs, and how should they be settled? This research workshop will explore these issues through a series of papers presented by a multi-disciplinary panel of philosophers, lawyers, and social scientists.

Kontakt: Val Taylor

Centre Andministrator
Centre for Professional Ethics
Keele Hall / Kelle University
Staffordshire ST5 5BG
United Kingdom

Tel.: +44 - (0)1782 - 58 42 97
Fax.: +44 - (0)1782 - 58 42 39

ethics@keele.ac.uk
http://www.keele.ac.uk/ethics/

Schlagworte: Gesundheitswesen, Grüne Gentechnik, Medizinische Ethik