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Intensive Bioethics Course 2007

Some delegates at the Horn, IBC 2004 Some of the delegates at IBC 2004 ( Photo courtesy Assoc. Prof. Bruce Waxman with thanks.)

Programme


Sunday, December 2
18.00 Registration & Welcome
Assoc. Prof. Justin Oakley
Director, Centre for Human Bioethics
18.30 Dinner
20.00 - 21.00 Film: "Mademoiselle and the Doctor"
21.00 - 21.30 Discussion
21.30 Drinks

 

Monday, December 3
9.15 - 10.00 Utilitarian approaches to ethics
Dr Linda Barclay
Centre for Human Bioethics
10.00 - 10.30 Discussion
10.30 - 11.00 Morning Tea
11.00 - 11.45

Kantian Ethics
Dr Rob Sparrow
Centre for Human Bioethics
11.45 - 12.30 Discussion
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.00 Virtue ethics
Assoc. Prof. Justin Oakley
Director, Centre for Human Bioethics
15.00 - 15.30 Discussion
15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon Tea
16.00 - 16.45 Regulating human embryonic stem cell research in Australia
Prof. Loane Skene
Law School, University of Melbourne
Deputy Chair, Lockhart Committee on human cloning and embryo research
16.45 - 17.15 Discussion
17.15 - 18.30 Free time
18.30 Dinner

 

Tuesday, December 4
9.15 - 10.15

The science of human embryonic stem cell research
Dr Susan Hawes
Research Fellow, Laboratory of Embryonic Stem Cell Biology
Monash Institute for Medical Research

The limits of moral considerability, and the ethics of human embryonic stem cell research
Dr Rob Sparrow
Centre for Human Bioethics
10.15 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.15 Morning Tea
11.15 - 12.00

Prenatal diagnosis: perspectives from the disability rights movement
Dr Lisa Bridle
Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability (QCIDD)
12.00 - 12.30 Discussion
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 17.00 Group Walk or Free Time
17.00 - 17.45

Making Life and Death Decisions
Julian Gardner
Former Public Advocate for Victoria.
17.45 - 18.15

Discussion
18.30 Dinner

 

Wednesday, December 5
9.15 - 10.15

The role of autonomy, informed consent and best interests in healthcare decision-ma king
Assoc. Prof. Justin Oakley
Director, Centre for Human Bioethics
10.15 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.15 Morning Tea
11.15 - 12.15

Commercialisation of medicine and science
Dr Linda Barclay
Centre for Human Bioethics
12.15 - 12.45 Discussion
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.15 Small group discussion
15.15 - 18.30 Group walk or free time
18.30 Dinner
20.00 - 20.45

Conflicts of interest in medicine
Assoc. Prof. Wendy Rogers, Flinders University
20.45 - 21.15 Discussion

 

Thursday, December 6
9.15 - 10.00

The ethics of allocating health care resources
Dr Rob Sparrow
Centre for Human Bioethics
10.00 - 10.30 Discussion
10.30 - 11.00 Morning Tea
11.00 - 12.00

Ethics, resources, and decision-making in the intensive care unit
Dr Andrew Watkins
Paediatrician
Mercy Hospital for Women
12.00 - 12.30 Discussion
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.15 Small group discussion
15.15 - 18.30 Group walk or free time
18.30 Dinner
20.00 - 20.45

The experience of being a whistleblower at Bundaberg Base Hospital
Ms Toni Hoffman
Nurse-in-charge
Intensive Care Unit
Bundaberg Base Hospital
20.45 - 21.15 Discussion
21.15 Drinks

 

Friday, December 7
9.30 - 10.15 Current issues for clinical ethics committees
Dr Lynn Gillam
Clinical Ethicist, Royal Children’s Hospital;
Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics, Centre for Health and Society,
University of Melbourne
10.15 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.00 Morning Tea
11.00 - 11.45

Forum on current issues for research ethics committees
Dr Lynn Gillam
Clinical Ethicist, Royal Children’s Hospital;
Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics, Centre for Health and Society,
University of Melbourne
11.45 - 12.15 Discussion
12.15 - 12.45 Course Assessment - Questionnaire
12.50 Farewell
Assoc. Prof. Justin Oakley
Centre for Human Bioethics
13.00 Lunch

 

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