Ethox Centre Seminars - Oxford Talks

Ethox Centre Seminars

Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Ethox Centre

Wednesday 24 January 2018

11:00 - Muslim perspectives on palliative and end of life care
Mehrunisha Suleman (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 7 February 2018

11:00 - Between the reasonable and the particular: Why English law does not, and should not, give primacy to respect for patient autonomy in regulating informed consent to medical treatment
Dr Michael Dunn (Ethox Centre)

Wednesday 21 February 2018

11:00 - Genes wide open: a qualitative study to explore the motives, experiences and attitudes of individuals who openly share their genomic data
Tobias Haeusermann (Health Ethics and Policy Lab, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich)

Wednesday 30 May 2018

11:00 - The Digital Clinical Trial: Global Imaginaries and Infrastructural Optimism
Rachel Douglas-Jones (Caroline Miles Scholar)

Tuesday 26 June 2018

11:00 - The Challenges of Total Joint Replacement in Obese Individuals: Clinical and Ethical Issues
Casey Humbyrd (Assistant Professor and Chief of the Foot and Ankle Division, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)

Wednesday 11 July 2018

11:00 - Ethical Issues for Verbal Autopsy in the Context of Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems
Alex Hinga (IDeAL KEMRI-Wellcome Fellow)

Wednesday 25 July 2018

14:00 - An ethical analysis of screening for perinatal mental health in the UK
Roshni Janarthanan (Oxford University Hospitals Trust)

Wednesday 1 August 2018

11:00 - All About Money: Why We Should Ignore “Undue Influence” in Research
Ethan Cowan (Andrew Markus Scholar)

Wednesday 8 August 2018

11:00 - African Bioethics: what and how?
Dr Caesar Atuire (University of Ghana)

Wednesday 15 August 2018

11:00 - Ethical Expertise in Psychiatry in Germany
Dr Joschka Haltaufderheide (Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany)

Thursday 20 September 2018

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar: What gives them the right? Legal privilege and waivers of consent for research
Jon Merz (Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania)

Wednesday 26 September 2018

11:00 - Individuals as co-creators of their own environments: Implications for understanding development and applying interventions
Essi Viding (UCL)

Wednesday 3 October 2018

11:00 - End of Life care in ICUs in Ain Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt
Sonya Azab (Ain Shams University)

Thursday 11 October 2018

12:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Authenticity and citizenship in people living with dementia in a care home
Julian Hughes (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 17 October 2018

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - After the End of Disease: a Historical Perspective on Epidemic Narratives
Dora Vargha (University of Exeter)

Wednesday 24 October 2018

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - The ethics and epistemology of nocebo effects in trials, and what to do about it
Dr Jeremy Howick (Nuffield Dept. of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.)

Wednesday 31 October 2018

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar: Current controversies in public patient involvement in research and service delivery
Lucy Frith (Department of Health Services Research, University of Liverpool)

Wednesday 7 November 2018

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar: The Embassy of Good Science: A European Initiative to strengthen research integrity and research ethics
Dr Natalie Evans (Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam)

Friday 9 November 2018

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar: How can we make health care better? Developing an approach to quality and quality improvement.
TBA

Wednesday 14 November 2018

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar: Political Bioethics
Dr Benjamin Gregg (University of Texas at Austin)

Wednesday 21 November 2018

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar: Punishing the innocent and other riddles of moral responsibility scepticism
Dr Hazem Zohny (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 November 2018

11:00 - How can we make health care better? Developing an approach to quality and quality improvement.
Professor Alan Cribb (King's College London)

Wednesday 5 December 2018

14:30 - Ethox and WEH Seminar: Avoiding ethics dumping in global research - Looking for equitable partnerships
Various Speakers

Wednesday 12 December 2018

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - On balancing security and privacy
Dr Carissa Veliz (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 December 2018

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar: Deploying Epigenetics to Identify Genetically Influenced Social Inequalities
Dr Benjamin Gregg (University of Texas at Austin)

Wednesday 16 January 2019

13:30 - Big Data Ethics Forum: How can we communicate genetic risk information across a wide range of conditions to people who are not enquiring about a specific disease?
Professor David Hunter (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 6 February 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Chronic Illness: A Systems Approach
Dr Tom Walker (Queen's University Belfast)

Wednesday 13 February 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Archival Ethics from Below: The Case of the Uganda Cancer Institute's Records
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Marissa Mika (University College London)

Wednesday 20 February 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - The limits of patient and public involvement
Dr Mark Sheehan (Oxford Biomedical Research Centre)

Wednesday 27 February 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - The Basic Structure Model of Research Stakeholder Obligations
Danielle Wenner (Carnegie Mellon University)

Wednesday 6 March 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Opt-outs and organ allocation: Should those who opt out be deprioritised?
Status: This talk has been cancelled
TBA

Monday 11 March 2019

15:00 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Mental health data ethics working group: Ethical challenges in the MRC Pathfinder project
Professor Ilina Singh (University of Oxford), Alex McKeown (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 20 March 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Gender as structural and epistemic vulnerability in global health emergencies
Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 28 March 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Ethical Medical Repatriation of Migrant Workers
Dr Voo Teck Chuan (National University of Singapore)

Wednesday 3 April 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar: Bringing Bioethics into Play: Digital Games as an Empirical Tool to Investigate Moral Choices
Gabriela Pavarini (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 April 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - It's time to check you now: informed consent and vaginal exams of pregnant women in labour
Natalie Cohen (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

Wednesday 24 April 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Telling the truth about pain: informed consent and the role of expectation in pain intensity
Nada Gligorov (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)

Tuesday 7 May 2019

14:30 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Rethinking Consent in Medical Education Panel
TBA

Wednesday 8 May 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar: Care and Control: An ethical analysis of parenting support within a UK prison mother and baby unit
Rose Mortimer, DPhil Student (Ethox Centre/Department of Psychiatry)

Wednesday 15 May 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - A can of worms: open data, replication and evidence-making in global health
Dr Lisa Hall (University of Toronto)

Wednesday 22 May 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Delaying and Withholding Interventions: Ethics and the Stepped Wedge
Ariella Binik (McMaster University)

Wednesday 29 May 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Beyond Hype: Opportunities and Challenges in mHealth
Dr Tereza Hendl (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)

Wednesday 5 June 2019

11:00 - Ethox/WEH Seminar - Conscientious objection in healthcare and professional obligations
Dr Stephen Clarke (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 June 2019

11:00 - Ethox/WEH Seminar - Beyond Money: Conscientious Objection in Medicine as a Conflict of Interests
Dr Alberto Giubilini (Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease)

Wednesday 19 June 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Pathways to Cure: care-seeking experiences and perceptions of health and illness of participants enrolled in a clinical trial for hepatitis C
Dr Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil, (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU))

Wednesday 26 June 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Ethical preparedness and genomics in the headlines
Bobbie Farsides (Brighton and Sussex Medical School), Anneke Lucassen (University of Southampton)

Wednesday 24 July 2019

11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Making Breathlessness Visible: a medical humanities approach
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Jane Macnaughton (Durham University)

Wednesday 18 September 2019

11:00 - Ethox/WEH Seminar - Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease in Tanzania: Understanding ethical, social and resource based implications
Daima Bukini (University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania)

Monday 30 September 2019

09:00 - UK-FR GENE Workshop - Comparative Perspectives on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Genomics in Research and Practice
Various Speakers

Wednesday 2 October 2019

11:00 - Ethox/WEH Seminar - Reclaiming a Sense of Common Humanity: A Confucian Ethical Vision
Professor Jing-Bao Nie (University of Otago)

Wednesday 6 November 2019

11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar - Psychology applied to genomics: understanding the utility of personal genomic information for physical and mental health
Dr Saskia Sanderson (UCL)

Wednesday 13 November 2019

11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Postgraduate Medical Ethics Education - mapping the field
Dr Andrew N Papanikitas (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 20 November 2019

16:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar - Archival Ethics from Below: The Case of the Uganda Cancer Institute's Records
Dr Marissa Mika (University College London)

Wednesday 11 December 2019

11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: A Social Connection Theory of Justice for Global Health Equity
Noah Rosenberg (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 December 2019

11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Adam Shriver (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

14:15 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Fake news? Epistemic and ethical challenges for synthetic datasets
Ben Cairns (University of Oxford), Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 April 2020

11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Nudging People into Consent
This seminar will be held by video conference through Bluejeans. Please email admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk for the link to the meeting.
Dr Maximilian Kiener (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 April 2020

11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: An Aide Memoire for a Balancing Act? Arguing against the ‘Balance Sheet’ Approach to Best Interests Decision-Making for Adults and Children
This seminar will be held by video conference through Bluejeans. Please email admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk for the link to the meeting.
Dr Michael Dunn (Ethox Centre)

Wednesday 27 May 2020

13:30 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Discussing the ethical considerations around public, policy and research partner engagement in the formation of global pathogen molecular surveillance systems
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr George Busby (Nuffield Department of Medicine)

Wednesday 17 November 2021

Wednesday 8 December 2021

14:30 - Ethox Seminar: My life, my data - your responsibility: Children’s rights and data stewardship
Jenny Krutzinna (University of Bergen)

Wednesday 12 January 2022

14:30 - Ethox Seminar: The practice of support for decision-making and the purpose of human rights
Dr Jillian Craigie (King’s College London)

Wednesday 26 January 2022

14:30 - Ethox Seminar: Realizing the potential of global digital health
Professor Joseph Ali (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)

Wednesday 23 February 2022

14:30 - Ethox Seminar: Cognitive Engineering Where Severe Cognitive Disability is Indicated: Toward Enabling the Future Person’s Capacity for Participation in Political Community
Dr Benjamin Gregg (University of Texas at Austin)

Wednesday 4 May 2022

14:30 - Ethox Seminar: What the GDPR says about genomic data
Vittoria Porta (University of Milan)

Wednesday 18 May 2022

14:30 - Ethox Seminar: Holding Machines Responsible: Moral Responsibility in a Technological World
Dr Daniel Tigard (Technical University of Munich)

Tuesday 24 May 2022

14:30 - Ethox Seminar: Fertility treatments, state-neutrality and adoption: In defence of defending (reproductive) preferences
Dr Giulia Cavaliere (King's College London)

Wednesday 1 June 2022

14:30 - Ethox Seminar - The Social Epistemology of Abortion
Dr Arianne Shahvisi (Brighton and Sussex Medical School)

Wednesday 15 June 2022

14:30 - Ethox Seminar - Community-based palliative care in refugee camps: Rwandan snapshots
Dr Sonya de Laat (McMaster University)

Tuesday 21 June 2022

11:00 - Ethox Seminar - Desperate Patients, Questionable Drugs: Balancing Speed and Certainty in Drug Approvals
Professor Holly Fernandez Lynch (University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday 2 August 2022

11:00 - Ethox Seminar - Agency and Responsibility towards Mental Health Promotion: A Qualitative Study with Brazilian Adolescents
Josimar Mendes (University of Brasilia)

Tuesday 27 September 2022

11:00 - Ethox Seminar - Arts-based interventions for mental health promotion and prevention: Experiences from Brazil
Professor Sheila Murta (University of Brasilia)

Tuesday 29 November 2022

11:00 - Ethox Seminar - Pursuing impact of own research: towards an ethical approach
Professor Kristine Bærøe (University of Bergen)

Tuesday 14 February 2023

11:00 - Ethox Seminar - Feminist-Ethical Perspectives on Digital (Health) Technologies
TBA

Tuesday 21 March 2023

11:00 - Ethox Seminar - The moral value of diversity. An intersectional ethical analysis of diversity and discrimination in medicine and health care
Dr Merle Weßel (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)

Thursday 1 June 2023

11:00 - AHEC Seminar - Changing the Story: Youth-led development, Accountability and Voice
Professor Paul Cooke (University of Leeds)

Wednesday 21 June 2023

14:30 - Ethox Seminar - Ethics of mandatory vaccination: Lessons and outstanding questions from COVID-19
Dr Maxwell J. Smith (Western University, Canada)

Tuesday 21 May 2024

10:30 - Ethox Seminar – The Ethics of Transformative Experience and Psychotherapy
Dr Farbod Akhlaghi (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 4 June 2024

14:30 - Ethox Seminar - Neuroethics of lumbar punctures (aka ‘spinal taps’) for psychiatric indications
Dr Matthew Baum (Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School)

Thursday 20 June 2024

10:30 - Ethox Seminar - Lottery or Triage? Controlled experimental evidence from A controlled experiment the COVID-19 pandemic on public preferences for allocation of scarce medical resources
Professor Philip Clarke (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 June 2024

11:00 - Ethox Seminar - The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India
Dr Eva Fiks (Keele University)

Tuesday 2 July 2024

11:00 - Ethox Seminar – The place of health in the justification of protest
Dr Ryan Essex (University of Greenwich)

Thursday 3 October 2024

14:30 - Ethox Seminar: Automated prejudice: Should algorithms assess risk in the criminal justice system?
Hope Kent (University of Exeter)

Monday 7 October 2024

10:30 - Ethox Seminar - Polygenic Risk Scores and Reproduction: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues
Prof Julian Savulescu (National University of Singapore)

Tuesday 5 November 2024

14:00 - Ethox Seminar – The ethics of voice-based conversational agents for people with dementia
Rasita Vinay (University of Zurich)

Tuesday 12 November 2024

10:30 - Ethox Seminar - The Meaning and Dying of Death for Children: Addressing Pediatric Palliative Care Gaps
CANCELLED - This seminar is postponed. New date will be announced in due course.
Dr Christina Lamb (Uehiro Oxford Institute)

Tuesday 10 December 2024

11:00 - Ethox Seminar: Understanding Moral Injury in Healthcare: A Conceptual Analysis from the Clinic
Dr Isabel Hanson (University of Oxford)

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