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Intensive Bioethics Course 2008

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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 23

18.00 Registration & Welcome
Dr Rob Sparrow
Acting 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, November 24
9.15 - 10.00 Ethics, law and public policy: what is at stake?
Dr Rob Sparrow
Centre for Human Bioethics
10.00 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.15 Morning Tea
11.15 - 12.00 Utilitarian approaches to ethics
Dr Linda Barclay
Centre for Human Bioethics
12.00 - 12.45 Discussion
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.00 The science of stem cell research
Dr Susan Hawes
Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories
15.00 - 15.30 Discussion
15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon Tea
16.00 - 16.45 Who counts? Animals, embryos and permanent vegetative states
Dr Rob Sparrow
Centre for Human Bioethics
16.45 - 17.15 Discussion
17.15 - 18.30 Free time
18.30 Dinner
20.30 Film (optional): TBA


Tuesday, November 25
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 - 12.00 Regulating stem cell research
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
12.00 - 12.45 Discussion
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 16.00 Health care resource allocation exercise
Dr Rob Sparrow
Centre for Human Bioethics
16.00 - 17.00 Free Time
17.00 - 17.45 Prenatal diagnosis: perspectives from the disability rights movement
Dr Lisa Bridle
Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability (QCIDD)
17.45 - 18.30

Discussion

18.30 Dinner
20.30 Film (optional): TBA


Wednesday, November 26
9.15 - 10.00 Kantian ethics
Dr Rob Sparrow
Centre for Human Bioethics
10.00 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.15 Morning Tea
11.15 - 12.00 The role of autonomy, informed consent and best interests in healthcare decision-making
Assoc. Prof. Justin Oakley
Centre for Human Bioethics
12.00 - 12.45 Discussion
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 18.30 Group walk or free time
18.30 Dinner
20.00 - 20.45 Making life and death decisions
Julian Gardner
Former Public Advocate for Victoria
20.45 - 21.15 Discussion


Thursday, November 27
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 Biobanks: the big issues
Prof. Alan Petersen
Sociology, Monash University
12.00 - 12.45 Discussion
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 17.00 Group walk or free time
17.00 - 17.45 Distributive justice and the rule of rescue
Dr Paul Biegler
Emergency Department, Sandringham and District Memorial Hospital
17.45 - 18.30 Discussion
18.30 Dinner
20.00 - 20.45 IBC Ethics panel
Centre staff and IBC participants
21.15 Drinks


Friday, November 28
9.30 - 10.15 Current issues for 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
10.15 - 10.45 Discussion
10.45 - 11.00 Morning Tea
11.00 - 11.45 Forum on current issues for 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
11.45 - 12.15 Discussion
12.15 - 12.45 Course Assessment - Questionnaire
12.50 Farewell
Dr Rob Sparrow
Centre for Human Bioethics
13.00 Lunch

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