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In this section you will find details of upcoming conferences, seminars and lectures relating to medical ethics and law.

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Compassion in Primary Healthcare - conflicts, politics and opportunities

    RCGP Scotland Announces exciting ethics conference "Compassion in Primary Healthcare- conflicts, politics and opportunities". RCGP Scotland, in conjunction with the Open Section of the Royal...

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Intensive Bioethics Courses, Autumn 2013

  8-10 October, 13-15 November, 3-6 December 2013 The Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law (of KU Leuven) is organising 3 intensive courses in the autumn of 2013. “Publish or Perish: Intensive C...

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UNESCO Chair in Bioethics 9th World Conference

19th-21st November 2013 Royal Continental Congress Center, Naples, Italy Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law, Towards the 21st Century. For further information click here. Download the flier ...

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Summer School on Health Law and Ethics

24 June - 5 July 2013 Rotterdam, The Netherlands   The Erasmus Observatory on Health Law / Institute of Health Policy & Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam) announces the annual Summer school...

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Intensive European Bioethics Course: Ethics of Pediatric Research

May 13th-15th, 2013, Padova, Italy The Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, and the Department of Woman and Child Health, University of Padova, announce the advanced...

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ESBAC Open Forum Event

13th May 2013, London 10.00 am - 13.00 pm. Emerging Science and Bioethics Advisory Committee, Department of Health, Skipton House, London. Set up in 2012, ESBAC is the main UK advisory body on emerg...

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Play: Doktor Glas

16th April 2013 - 11th May 2013 Wyndham's Theatre, Charing Cross Road, London.   Doktor Glas tells the story of a 19th century physician who falls madly in love with the beautiful young wife of a ...

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Nuffield Council on Bioethics Annual Lecture 2013

7th May 6.00-9.00 pm, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. Freedom of Speech, Scientific Freedom and Public Safety Professor John Harris, Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Di...

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Wellcome Trust Ethics and Society Pre Application Mentoring Workshop

7th May 2013 Glasgow. Please see the link here for further information....

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14th International ICNE Nursing Ethics Conference

16th-17th May 2013 Melbourne, Australia. Please see the conference website here for further information. Note that the call for abstracts is now also open, the closing date for submissions is 3rd D...

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13th Annual UKCEN Conference: Ethics of Healthcare in a Multicultural Society

19th June 2013, Aston University, Lakeside Conference Centre, Birmingham. This event has been sponsored by the IME and awarded a 2013 Institutional Grant. For further information, download the flyer...

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The British Society for Ethical Theory 2013

15th-17th July 2013, BSET, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London. Topic areas include Applied Ethics. Submission deadline: 10th December For further inform...

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Moral Intuitionism: Epistemological and Ethical Aspects

July 22nd-31st 2013, Budapest Hungary Central European University is pleased to announce the Call for Applications for a Summer University course called “Moral Intuitionism: Epistemological and Eth...

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