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Intensive Bioethics Course 2009

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participants at the Horn, Mt.Buffalo, IBC 2004. Some of the 2004 IBC participants at The Horn, Mt.Buffalo.
(Photo courtesy Assoc. Prof. Bruce Waxman with thanks.)

Programme


Sunday, November 29

18.00 Registration & Welcome
Assoc. Prof. Justin Oakley
Director, Centre for Human Bioethics
18.30 Dinner
20.00 Film: title TBA
21.00 Discussion
21.30 Drinks

 


Monday, November 30
9.15 - 10.00 What is at stake, and who counts?
Dr Rob Sparrow
Centre for Human Bioethics
10.00 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.15 Morning Tea
11.15 - 12.00 Kantian ethics
Assoc. Prof. Justin Oakley
Centre for Human Bioethics
12.00 - 12.45 Discussion
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.00 Utilitarianism
Dr Rob Sparrow
Centre for Human Bioethics
15.00 - 15.30 Discussion
15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon Tea
16.00 - 16.45 Current work in human embryonic stem cell research
Dr Susan Hawes
Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories
16.45 - 17.15 Discussion
18.30 Dinner
20.30 Evening free

 


Tuesday, December 1
9.15 - 10.00 Virtue ethics
Assoc. Prof. Justin Oakley
Centre for Human Bioethics
10.00 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.15 Morning Tea
11.15 - 12.00 Autonomy and informed consent
Assoc. Prof. Justin Oakley
Centre for Human Bioethics
12.00 - 12.45 Discussion
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.00 Making end-of-life decisions
Julian Gardner
Former Public Advocate for Victoria
15.00 - 15.30 Discussion
16.00 - 16.45 Best interests, paternalism, and surrogate decision-making
Assoc. Prof. Justin Oakley
Centre for Human Bioethics
16.45 - 17.30

Discussion

18.00 Dinner
20.15 - 21.00 Should women be paid for giving their eggs to stem cell science?
Prof. Loane Skene

Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne;
Deputy Chair, Lockhart Committee on human cloning and embryo research
21.00 - 21.45 Discussion

 


Wednesday, December 2
9.15 - 10.00 Feminist approaches to bioethics
Dr Catherine Mills
Sesqui Lecturer in Bioethics, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney
10.00 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.15 Morning Tea
11.15 - 12.00 Distributive justice and the rule of rescue
Dr Paul Biegler
Emergency Department, Sandringham and District Memorial Hospital
12.00 - 12.45 Discussion
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.00 Health care resource allocation exercise
Dr Rob Sparrow
Centre for Human Bioethics
15.00 - 15.30 Discussion
15.30 - 18.30 Group walk/free time
18.30 Dinner
20.30 Film (optional, title TBC): eg. Singer: A Dangerous Mind

 


Thursday, December 3
9.15 - 10.00 Commercialisation of science and medicine
Dr Linda Barclay
Centre for Human Bioethics
10.00 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.15 Morning Tea
11.15 - 12.45 Clinical ethics committees
Assoc. Prof. Lynn Gillam
Children's Bioethics Centre, Royal Children's Hospital and Murdoch Children's Research Institute;
Centre for Health and Society (CHS), University of Melbourne
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.00 Issues in research ethics
Dr Linda Barclay
Centre for Human Bioethics
15.00 - 15.30 Discussion
16.00 - 17.30 Human research ethics committees
Assoc. Prof. Lynn Gillam
Children's Bioethics Centre, Royal Children's Hospital and Murdoch Children's Research Institute;
Centre for Health and Society (CHS), University of Melbourne
18.30 Dinner
20.00 Evening free
21.15 Drinks

 


Friday, December 4
9.30 - 10.45 IBC Ethics Panel
Lynn, Linda and Justin
10.45 - 11.00 Morning Tea
11.00 - 11.45 Ethical issues in biobanking
Prof. Alan Petersen
Sociology, Monash University
11.45 - 12.15 Discussion
12.15 - 12.45 Course Assessment - questionnaire
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Farewell

 

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