Past events

Transplant Ethics Conference

20th-23rd April 2013. World Trade Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands. The European Society for Organ Transplantation ELPAT Congress. Online registration is now open. The abstract submission deadline is...

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International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare: London 2013

16th-19th April 2013, London. See the event website for further information....

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Exhibition: Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men

19th October 2012 - 14th April 2013 Museum of London, 150 London Wall EC2Y 5HN For further information see the exhibition website here....

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ICCEC 2013

9th International Congress on Clinical Ethics Consultation Extended call for abstracts, new deadline October 15th 2012. 14th-16th March 2013 Munich, Germany For further information, visit the webs...

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The Jurusalem International Conference on Neuroplasticity and Cognitive Modifiability

10th-13th March 2013 For further information see the conference website here....

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Nordic Conference in Ethics in Health Sciences

7th-8th March 2013 The University of Oslo.   The conference will take place at Helga Enghs Hus, Blindern Campus, University of Oslo. The target audience for this conference is health workers in co...

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Being: The Donor Conceived Perspective

28th February 2013 Please see the link here for further information...

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Play: The Effect

6th November 2012 - 23rd February 2013 National Theatre (Cottesloe Theatre) South Bank, London SE1 9PX For further information and to book tickets, click here....

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3rd UK Primary Care Ethics Conference: Primary Care Ethics – The Ordinary and the Extraordinary

  20th February 2013 Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE This event is supported by the Institute of Medical Ethics. Please click here for further information....

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End of Life Care Study Day

1st February 2013 UCL Medical Ethics and Law Unit and St Francis Hospice Event. For further information download the course programme and booking form here.  ...

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John Locke Lecture

23rd January 2013, 6 pm Society of Apothecaries, Apothecaries’ Hall, Black Friars Lane, London EC4V 6EJ. 'Incentives in Health' to be given by Professor Richard Ashcroft. Please click here to dow...

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Play: Going Dark

4th-22nd December 2012 Young Vic, 66 The Cut, Waterloo, London SE1 8LZ Click here for further information and to book tickets....

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Play: The Changeling

20th November - 15th December 2012 Young Vic Theatre, London. For further information and to book tickets, click here....

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Giving: The Gamete Donor Perspective

12th December 2012 6.30-8.30 pm Progress Educational Trust Christopher Ingold Auditorium, Ground Floor, Christopher Ingold Building, Bloomsbury Campus, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, Lo...

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National Medical Students Academic Conference, Cardiff

8th-9th December 2012.   Organised in conjunction with Doctors Academy, this 2-day conference is aimed at helping medical undergraduates develop a strong clinical, academic and research portfolio...

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Second Midlands IME Students' Ethics Day Conference

8th December, 2012 University of Birmingham Medical School 10.00-16.30 pm   For further information and the booking form, click here.  ...

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Intensive Course on Foundational Approaches, Contemporary and Educational Issues in the Field of Nursing Ethics

5th-7th December 2012, Leuven, Belgium The Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law (of KU Leuven) is organising an intensive course on Nursing Ethics. The objective of the course is to foster exchanges ...

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Conference: Assisted Dying

30th November 2012 The Society for Ethics and Law in Medicine Royal College of Anaesthetists.   For further information, click here....

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Final Programme: Conference on the Development and Education of Virtue

20th November, 2012, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm. Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands The conference, organised by the Practical Philosophy department of the Radboud University Nijmegen, brings to...

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Play: Boy in a Dress

16th-17th November 2012 For further information click here....

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Play: Where the Mangrove Grows

6th November 2012- 1st December 2012 By Joe Hammond, Directed by Tamara Harvey. Theatre 503, Battersea Park Road, London. The first recommendation by the Healthcare and Theatre group (HAT), with th...

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Fertility Treatment: A Life Changing Event?

28th November 2012, University College London's Institute of Child Health, 9.30am-5.30pm This event is being organised by PET with an unrestricted educational grant from Merck Serono (gold sponsor) a...

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Medicine Unboxed: Belief

24-25th November 2012 Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Medicine Unboxed 2012 explores Belief - how our beliefs about illness are informed by science, reason, faith, and the imagination, how such par...

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Changing Expectations of Death

23rd-25th November 2012 Cumberland Lodge   This conference will address the medical, social and philosophical implications of our changing attitudes to death. Discussions will cover end of life ca...

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Advanced Moral Decision Making Skills Workshop

12th-13th November 2012, Warwick Medical School. For further information please download the flier....

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DVD Launch - Dignity: A Tale of Two Wards

12th November 2012, 1 pm.  Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London. The  evidence based  DVD 'Dignity a Tale of Two Wards' is being launched early in November.  The Launch will be ho...

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Play: Blue/Orange

Dates vary, currently touring the UK  Blue/Orange is the story of Christopher (Oliver Wilson), who believes that a notorious military dictator is his father. In a battle of wills, his psychiatrist ...

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Compassion in Healthcare: Exploring and sustaining compassionate practice in healthcare. A multidisciplinary conference

12th November 2012 See the event page on the RSM website for further information: http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/ond01.php   ***Limited free student places*** The Institute of Medical Ethics have fu...

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Show: BALL & Other Funny Stories about Cancer

3rd November, 2012 7.30 pm Arts Depot, North Finchley See the link here for further information and to book tickets....

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Fourth Annual Dutch Conference on Practical Philosophy

2nd-3rd November 2012, Eindhoven. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Roger Crisp (Oxford) and Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota) CALL FOR PAPERS Papers on any topic within practical philosophy (broadly conc...

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Risk, Justice and Liberty

October 26th–28th, 2012, 7th International Conference on Applied Ethics Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy (CAEP) Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan) We invite the submission of papers relat...

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Superhuman: Exhibition at The Wellcome Collection

19th July - 16th October 2012 The Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE An Exhibition Exploring Human Enhancement. Glasses, lipstick, false teeth, the contraceptive pill and even you...

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The Grandest Challenge - Global Health and Innovation

11th October 2012, 6-8 pm, Imperial College London Physics Building, Blackett 1 Lecture Theatre Omani Students Society in London: Keynote Talk Click here to download the flyer for further informatio...

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Publish or Perish: Intensive Course on Research and Publishing in the field of Bioethics

10th-12th October 2012 Leuven, Belgium The Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law (of KU Leuven) is organising an intensive course on research and publishing in bioethics and medical humanities. Man...

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From the Classroom to the Clinic: Humanities and Education in Bioethics

8th October 2012, Cumberland Lodge Windsor Great Park. This colloquium will explore the contribution of the humanities and the social sciences to the education of medical ethics and bioethics to he...

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Society in Ethics Across the Curriculum 2012

4th-6th October 2012 SEAC 14th International Conference Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI “The Art of Morality: Developing Moral Sensitivity Across the Curriculum” Keynote Speaker:...

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Contemporary Debates in Global Health: the UCL Perspective

3rd October, 2012 1.30pm-5.30pmKennedy Lecture Theatre, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH UCL Institute For Global Health. Five Years On - Grand Symposium To mark the first 5 years of the Institut...

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Freeing Us From Our Cells: Avoiding Inherited Mitochondrial Disease

25th September 2012, City University London's Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre 6.30pm-8.30pm This event is being organised by PET in partnership with City University's Science Journalism course. The d...

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AHRC Autonomy Summer School

20th-22nd September 2012 University of Essex.   The AHRC Autonomy Summer School is a three-day training course aimed at frontline professionals and researchers who face issues surrounding autonomy...

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EACME 2012 Conference

20th-22nd September 2012, Bristol UK European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics Annual Conference Welcome from the Conference President: It is a great pleasure and honour to invite you to th...

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Assisted Dying and End of Life Decisions

17th September 2012, Hallam Conference Centre London. In January this year the Commission on Assisted Dying made a number of recommendations as to how current English law should be changed to allow t...

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Ageing and Dying

15th-16th September 2012 The Leverhulme project in Bioethics and Biopolitics (CIBB) is happy to invite you to its 2nd International and Transdisciplinary Workshop: ‘Ageing and Dying’  FREE PART...

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Managing Crises at the End of Life

13th September, London National Council for Palliative Care Conference: Managing Crises at the End of Life: responsibility, welfare & choice.   There are still too many cases of professionals acro...

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The Doctor's Dilemma

19th July - 12th September 2012 Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre London. By Bernard Shaw. See the play's webpage for further information about the production and to book tickets....

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Intensive Course on Medical Ethics

Last few spaces available! 17th-21st September 2012, Imperial College London Click here to download the flyer (PDF File).  Alternatively, visit the course website for further information here....

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Quangoing, Going , Gone: What Should Happen to the HFEA?

11th September 2012 University College London, Darwin Lecture Theatre 6.30-8.30 pm Progress Educational Trust This event is being organised by PET in partnership with the Anne McLaren Memorial Fund...

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Enhancement, Emerging Technologies and Social Challenges

10th - 14th September 2012 at the Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia. CFP DEADLINE: July 1st 2012. We invite papers and panel proposals. See www.transformingthehuman.org The specific focus ...

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International Conference on Bioethics Education: Contents, Methods, Trends

September 2nd - 5th 2012 Kinar Convention Center, Tiberius Israel.     An International EXHIBITION will be held during the Conference.  The Exhibition will consist of teaching programs and curr...

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Joint Meeting of the 2nd forum on Clinical Bioethics and the 1st forum on History and Philosophy of Medicine

28th-29th August, Bogatá PONTIFICAL XAVIERIAN UNIVERSITY, COLUMBIA BIOETHICS INSTITUTE RESEARCH GROUP ON BIOETHICS LINE OF RESEARCH ON CLINICAL BIOETHICS AND HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE A...

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Crowd Sourced Debate: Is There a Right to Physician Assisted Suicide?

22nd August, 2012 Marylebone Gardens, Marylebone High St, London W1U 4QA.  Downstairs in the cafe area. The London Philosophy Club   In this follow-up to the recent talk by Professor Richard Ash...

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