Effects of the ‘Assisted Dying' Bill for Scottish Doctors & HCPs
Effects of the ‘Assisted Dying' Bill for Scottish Doctors & HCPs
Sat, Feb 25, 14:00
Hope City Church Edinburgh • Edinburgh
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With the End in Mind: Should the UK Legalise Assisted Suicide?
A dialogue at the Royal Society of Edinburgh between two distinguished bioethicists. The question: Should the UK Legalise Assisted Suicide?
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The Royal Society of Edinburgh (Wolfson Lecture Theatre) 22-26 George Street Edinburgh EH2 2PQ United Kingdom
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With the End in Mind: Should the UK Legalise Assisted Suicide?
Through a proposal by MSP Liam McArthur, the legal question of assisted suicide is returning to the Scottish Parliament. Join Dr. Trevor Stammers (Editor, The New Bioethics) and Dr. Stephen Latham (Director, Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics) for an evening discussion exploring this question at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The event will be chaired by Jeremy Balfour (MSP for Lothian).
19:00 - 20:30 | Dialogue on "Should the UK Legalise Assisted Suicide?" & Audience Q&A
20:30 - 21:30 | Wine Reception
There is no cost for this event.
For those unable to attend in person, a live stream will be available: https://youtu.be/3rC7It1iRQI
Speaker Information:
Dr. Trevor Stammers spent 27 as a doctor before a 15-year career in academia, including as Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Law and Director of the Centre for Bioethics and Emerging Technologies at St. Mary's University in Twickenham. He is currently the Editor of The New Bioethics journal and co-author (with Calum MacKellar) of The Ethics of Generating Posthumans.
His research interests are principally the ethics of organ transplantation and genomic editing but he has also written on conscience in medical practice and the limits of autonomy in ethical decisions in healthcare. He was Chair of the Christian Medical Fellowship 2007-2009 and a current member of the CMF Study Group on medical ethics.
Stephen Latham, JD, PhD, is the Senior Research Scientist and Director of Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, a program of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He has published widely in health law and bioethics, with particular emphasis on the legal regulation of novel medical technologies and of human and animal research. He also has a strong interest in philosophical argumentation in bioethics. He is a former board member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, which gave him its distinguished service award; and a contributing editor of the Hastings Center Report.