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- Global Connectedness and Interdependence
- Genomics and Genome Editing
- Data and Information
- Ethics and Neuroscience
- History at the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
- COVID-19: Comment cela vous affecte-t-il?
- Solidarity in times of a pandemic (SolPan)
- Oxford-Johns Hopkins Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE)
- Pathogen Genomics
- Typhus in Naples, 1943-44: A Study in Vector Control
- War Forensics Interventions
- Digital Environmental Sustainability Ethics
- Rethinking Ethics and History in Global Health
- Rethinking Justice and Discrimination
- Rethinking Collective Minds
- Rethinking Infection and History
- Conveniently facilitate web-enabled e-business and next-generation portals.
- Assertively conceptualize B2B results for wireless users.
- Competently maximize high-quality processes before value-added users.
- Bioethics and Humanities: Some thoughts from History and Literature
- Embedding ethics in global health research collaborations
- Just Development and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
- Public Health Policy and the Ethics of the Long Game
- Bad Beginnings? A Qualitative Study of Prison Mother and Baby Units.
- 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
- Transformative experience and adolescent capacity to refuse life-prolonging treatment
- Genes wide open: a qualitative study to explore the motives, experiences and attitudes of individuals who openly share their genomic data
- Health promotion in the post-truth age: The role of autonomy and moral responsibility amid epidemiological transition
- Inventive practices in 18th-century Europe: the public theater of technology and the mastery of the elements of nature
- The making of a Pastorian Empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics
- Ada Lovelace: an eminent Victorian in her mathematical context
- UK premature baby care 1947-1965: the Dr Isaac 'Harry' Gosset Collection at Northampton General Hospital - a case study
- A research enclave in 1940s Nigeria: the Rockefeller Foundation Yellow Fever Research Institute at Yaba, Lagos, 1943-1949
- Education and Alzheimer's
- Using epidemiology to guide discovery: Repurposing drugs to prevent dementia
- Collective inaction and group-based ignorance
- Clinical Case Presentation
- A Better Start: How local partnerships are uniting community strengths with science to transform early childhood development
- Investigating reward function as a possible biomarker for depression
- Case Presentation: Serious suicidal attempts in children
- Suicide Risk Assessment: Moving from the Impossible to Suicide Prevention
- Translational studies of the psychiatric risk gene CACNA1C
- Identifying and supporting women with mental illness in pregnancy
- 2018 Annual Uehiro Lectures (1/3): Dementia & The Social Scaffold Of Memory
- 2018 Annual Uehiro Lectures (2/3): Addiction, Desire, And The Polluted Environment
- 2018 Annual Uehiro Lectures (3/3): Illness And Attitude
- St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Brain-machine interfaces and the translation of thought into action
- The 4th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation and Reception
- Antibiotics: to regulate or not?
- Using practical ethics to resolve differences of opinion in review and design of clinical research
- Special Ethics Seminar: The Future of Mobility
- A New Argument for Ethical Pluralism With a Surprising Implication for Ideal Moral Theory
- OUC-WEH Joint Double-Seminar: Rethinking “Disease” (Russell Powell); Invertebrate Animal Ethics (Irina Mikhalevich)
- The Casebooks Project
- Book Launch: The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory
- When the spark goes out: apathy and anhedonia in brain disorders
- Concealment and Discovery: The Role of Information Security in Biomedical Data Re-Use
- Responsibility in Healthcare: Empowerment Without Blame?
- The Concept of Vulnerability: Eliminating a Problem?
- To report or not to report? That's not the only question!
- Saving Shared Decision Making
- Ethical Issues for Verbal Autopsy in the Context of Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems
- Investigating neuropsychological mechanisms in depression
- Mental Health impacts on children and families under prolonged military occupation in Palestine
- Should we have the same psychiatrist in inpatient and outpatient care or different psychiatrists in each setting? – Results of the EU funded COFI study
- A qualitative study looking at what matters to young people, parents, professionals and commissioners regarding Child and Adolescent Mental Health services
- Factors influencing decisions around suicide methods and locations
- Sex differences: can we interpret research or plan treatment without accounting for them?
- Journal Club - Depression in adults: treatment and management. Chapter 17: Network meta-analysis - detailed methods and results’, NICE, 2017
- Perinatal depression and child development. Identifying those at risk and relevant interventions
- Technology and Mental Health
- Journal Club - The empirical status of the third-wave behaviour therapies for the treatment of eating disorders: A systematic review’, Linardon et al., 2017
- Old Age Psychiatry CPD meeting
- Human Brain Organoids: the Science, the Ethics
- The Digital Clinical Trial: Global Imaginaries and Infrastructural Optimism
- Residual Cognitive Capacities and the Capacity for Suffering in Patients with Cognitive Motor Dissociation
- Things come together: science in the American West
- Playing With Life
- Panel Discussion ‘Neurotech Now, and Beyond the Horizon’
- The Challenges of Total Joint Replacement in Obese Individuals: Clinical and Ethical Issues
- Justice and vulnerability in big data
- An ethical analysis of screening for perinatal mental health in the UK
- What gives them the right? Legal privilege and waivers of consent for research
- All About Money: Why We Should Ignore “Undue Influence” in Research
- Book Launch for 'Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children'
- Ethical Expertise in Psychiatry in Germany
- African Bioethics: what and how?
- Epistemic Discontinuities and Mental Healthcare in Africa: Ghana
- Andrew Markus Lecture: Money, Money, Money - Ethical Issues with Paying Patients and Research Participants
- Individuals as co-creators of their own environments: Implications for understanding development and applying interventions
- End of Life care in ICUs in Ain Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt
- After the End of Disease: a Historical Perspective on Epidemic Narratives
- Public Talk: Global Legal Epidemiology
- The ethics and epistemology of nocebo effects in trials, and what to do about it
- Authenticity and citizenship in people living with dementia in a care home
- Big Data: curse or cure?
- Current controversies in public patient involvement in research and service delivery
- Political Bioethics
- The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time
- The Embassy of Good Science: A European Initiative to strengthen research integrity and research ethics
- Special Talk: Principles of Spying: The Ethics of Intelligence Collection and Analysis
- Archival ethics from below: the case of an African Cancer Hospital
- Punishing the innocent and other riddles of moral responsibility scepticism
- Deploying Epigenetics to Identify Genetically Influenced Social Inequalities
- On balancing security and privacy
- How can we make health care better? Developing an approach to quality and quality improvement.
- Big Data Ethics Forum: How can researchers use social media data responsibly?
- Avoiding Ethics Dumping in Global Research - Looking for Equitable Partnerships
- Political Bioethics
- Joint OUC-WEH seminar: Utilitarianism about Animals and the Moral Significance of Use
- Big Data Ethics Forum: HIV phylogenetic research and public health - challenges and opportunities
- Chronic Illness: A Systems Approach
- The Basic Structure Model of Research Stakeholder Obligations
- 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?
- The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09
- Is there a Moral Problem with the Gig Economy?
- Xenia: Refugees, Displaced Persons and Reciprocity
- The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel
- Simon's Story: Delusion as a Case Study in Neuroscience and Values-based Practice
- SEMINAR CANCELLED Archival Ethics from Below: The Case of the Uganda Cancer Institute's Records
- SEMINAR CANCELLED Opt-outs and organ allocation: Should those who opt out be deprioritised?
- Bringing Bioethics into Play: Digital Games as an Empirical Tool to Investigate Moral Choices
- Gender as structural and epistemic vulnerability in global health emergencies
- Ethical Medical Repatriation of Migrant Workers
- Book Launch: The Ethics of Vaccination
- The limits of patient and public involvement
- Big Data Ethics Forum - Mental health data ethics working group: ethical challenges in the MRC Pathfinder project
- Participatory Visual Methods for Research Engagement : Who has more to learn?
- Religion, War and Terrorism
- Rethinking Moral Status Conference
- WEH workshop - Ethics Oversight and Committees for AI: Towards a Future Research Agenda
- Telling the Truth about Pain: Informed Consent and the Role of Expectation in Pain Intensity.
- It’s Time to Check You Now: Informed Consent and Vaginal Exams of Pregnant Women in Labor
- Health, self-management and empowerment: mHealth technologies from a public health perspective
- Care and Control: An ethical analysis of parenting support within a UK prison mother and baby unit.
- Delaying and Withholding Interventions: Ethics and the Stepped Wedge
- A can of worms: open data, replication and evidence-making in global health.
- Rethinking Consent in Medical Education Panel
- Beyond Hype: Opportunities and Challenges in mHealth
- GDPR deletion poems launch
- New Zealand medical students and their involvement with patients in the context of sensitive examinations: what does consent have to do with it?
- Beyond Money: Conscientious Objection in Medicine as a Conflict of Interests
- The Good, the Bad and the Project: interdisciplinary ethics in development research and practice
- Ethical preparedness and genomics in the headlines
- Pathways to Cure: care-seeking experiences and perceptions of health and illness of participants enrolled in a clinical trial for hepatitis C treatment in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Conscientious objection in healthcare and professional obligations
- Developing an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for global mental health research ethics
- SEMINAR CANCELLED - Making Breathlessness Visible: a medical humanities approach
- Regulation of AI in healthcare: what should we expect?
- Genomic Secondary Findings in Inherited heart conditions: a recall by genotype study
- Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease in Tanzania: Understanding ethical, social and resource based implications (working title)
- Reclaiming a Sense of Common Humanity: A Confucian Ethical Vision
- Postgraduate Medical Ethics Education - mapping the field
- Archival Ethics from Below: The Case of the Uganda Cancer Institute's Records
- Psychology applied to genomics: understanding the utility of personal genomic information for physical and mental health
- Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research
- In our blood
- Inherited Secrets; what do you really want to know about your DNA?
- Andrew Markus Scholar Lecture 2019: A Social Connection Theory of Justice for Global Health Equity
- Research for development (R4D): what is it and what ethical challenges does it pose?
- A Social Connection Theory of Justice for Global Health Equity
- Death at teatime
- Workshop: Public Involvement and Governance in Population-Level Biomedical Research
- Suffering prioritisation, or prioritising suffering? A critique of arguments for and against NHS funded fertility services
- Health as wellbeing and health as asset: Why the distinction matters
- Addressing vulnerability in and through research: Highlights from the REACH study
- SEMINAR CANCELLED Artificial Intelligence: Some Likely Developments and Foreseeable Challenges
- 1. Negligence and abortion: doctors' duty of care challenges and potentials in light of Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board 2. White Coats, Stethoscopes, and Picket Signs
- The Role of Autonomy in Medical Consent
- Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective.
- Debating Forced Medical Feeding: a Critical Examination of Israeli Responses to Hunger Strikes
- The Fly - screening with Oxford's UPP
- Debating Data
- Building research capacity through North-South Partnerships: some ethical reflections and a social justice agenda.
- What do we owe to novel synthetic beings and how can we be sure?
- CANCELLED: Why Think About the Methods in Bioethics
- Oxford Global Health and Bioethics Conference
- EACME Annual Conference 2019
- Third International Workshop on Ethics and Human Enhancement
- CANCELLED: Social Construction, False Consciousness and the Preference for a Genetically Related Child
- CANCELLED: Big Data and the Threat to Moral Responsibility in Healthcare
- Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re going
- Big Data Ethics Forum - GameChanger: can smartphones transform the detection of early neurodegenerative disease?
- 'Nudging People into Consent'
- An Aide Memoire for a Balancing Act? Arguing against the ‘Balance Sheet’ Approach to Best Interests Decision-Making for Adults and Children
- Should consent for data processing be privileged in health research?
- Resuscitation decisions and discussions: can we get it right in a climate of fear?
- Bioethical Relevance of the African dual concept of Moral Status
- Choosing Now for Later: Precedent Autonomy and Problem of Surrogate Decision-Making After Severe Brain Injury
- The Ethics of Exercise During the Covid-19 pandemic ‒ UK perspectives
- Ethical Dispossession: Mindfulness-Based Therapies and the History of Virtue
- The Ethics of Exercise During the Covid-19 pandemic ‒ UK perspectives
- An ethical approach for implementing COVID-19 immunity certificates
- The Ethics of Exercise During the Covid-19 pandemic ‒ UK perspectives
- Consent and confidentiality in family medicine: reflections on the “ABC” case
- Translational ethics: working with clinicians to improve ethical decision-making
- Trustworthy Governance and Commercial Users of Health Data: What is a reasonable expectation of privacy?
- Medical Ethics: Common or UnCommon Morality?
- Human challenge studies in endemic settings: ethical issues
- Self-Defeating Codes of Medical Ethics and How to Fix Them: Failures in COVID-19 Response and Beyond
- Our Moral Fate: Evolution and the Escape From Tribalism
- Access to Artificial Reproductive Technologies: The Case of France and Belgium
- Four decades of consent in Norwegian biobanking
- INDOORS: Experiences of older people during lockdown
- Islam and Biomedical Research Ethics
- Confidentiality and transplant tourism: keeping one’s hands clean during organ laundering
- Is there a meaningful distinction to be made between bioethics, public health ethics and global health ethics?
- Big Data Ethics Forum: Discussing the ethical considerations around public, policy and research partner engagement in the formation of global pathogen molecular surveillance systems
- Ethical issues in the COVID-19 pandemic: Are lessons ever learned?
- Big Data Ethics Forum: "Ethical considerations of combining research, clinical practice and public health surveillance of infectious diseases in low income settings"
- Distrust as a Defensive Stance
- The ethics of challenge trials for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines
- Why justice is not enough: Solidarity as guiding value for data governance
- Opt-Out Organ Donation And The Exclusion Of Organs And Tissues
- Indoors: Experiences of older people during lockdown
- Team Science and publications: Who should be an author?
- Advance Directives and the Happy Demented Patient
- Indoors exhibition: Experiences of older people during lockdown
- Technologies to tackle substandard and falsified medical products in global health
- Familial Fortunes: what do you really want to know about your child's DNA?
- Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference
- Can Art Make Us Healthier?
- Medical Identities in Global History
- Art, empowerment, and health
- Hope in Healthcare
- Robot & Frank – screening and discussion
- Virus of Hate workshop
- Virus of hate workshop II
- New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar - Dimensions of valuation: Contrasting moral expansiveness and moral capacity
- New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar - The Moral Machine Experiment
- Health of People, Health of the Planet: A Diversity of Perspectives
- Climate Change & Mental Health: Exploring Responses Across Cultures
- New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar - Is AI bad for democracy? Analyzing AI’s impact on epistemic agency
- Health Systems, Culture & Climate Change
- Merging Minds: multiplayer gaming, art and philosophy
- AHEC Seminar - Changing the Story: Youth-led development, Accountability and Voice
- Embodied
- Ethics of ChatGPT in Health Care
- Ethics in Science and Health Communication and Engagement
- Ethics In Film presents: The Constant Gardener
- What about exclusion?
- News
- MSt in Practical Ethics
- Oxford-Amsterdam Winter School
- Speaking with: Julian Savulescu on the ethics of genetic modification in humans
- Should we pay individuals to quit smoking or lose weight?
- Hannah Maslen featured in The Economist
- Five rules for an open and civil debate on Ireland's abortion referendum
- New edition: Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry
- Announcement: The 4th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation and Reception
- Andrew Markus Visiting Scholarship
- Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship
- Prof Ilina Singh on the ethics of medicating children for ADHD
- Facebook, Big Data, and the Trust of the Public
- Harmless kidney markets
- Faster, Higher, Stronger…Happier? Olympic Athletes and the Philosophy of Well-Being
- Gene-Editing Mosquitoes at The European Youth Event 2018
- Should young people get genetic testing?
- OxTalent 2018 Award Ceremony
- Why it’s important to test drugs on pregnant women
- Would a longer lifespan make us happier? A philosopher’s take
- Pain for Ethicists: What is the Affective Dimension of Pain?
- Pain for Ethicists #2: Is the Cerebral Cortex Required for Pain? (Video)
- Should Gene Editing Be Compulsory?
- Human Brain Organoids: the Science, the Ethics
- Neuro-discourse: Neuro-enthusiasm or neuro-scepticism? Neuro-ethics (?)
- Lecture and Book Launch: Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children – From Disagreement to Dissensus
- The Ethics of Consciousness Hunting - How fMRI has become an ethical obligation
- Futuremakers: Does AI have a gender?
- Harnessing the Power of Moral Identity to Improve Morality
- Should we Believe in Santa Claus?
- Hard Choices, Fredkin’s Paradox and is Ethics a Waste of Time?
- Bioethics of Digital Tools in mental health
- Should vegans avoid avocados and almonds?
- Should we use AI to prevent you from getting the blues?
- BDI to host EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Health Data Science
- Human enhancement: is it good for society
- The ethics of vaccination: individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities
- Interview with Dr Alberto Giubilini
- Patricia's story: from research assistant to senior academic creating a better culture
- Should Meat Be Excluded From the UK’s Value Added Tax?
- Genomic medicine and the NHS
- In Defence of Intersex Athletes
- Ten ethical flaws in the Caster Semenya decision on intersex in sport
- What has the Global Health Bioethics Network done for you?
- Roles, Responsibilities and the Future Care of Older People: A Cross-Cultural Networking Meeting
- Philosophy 24/7 podcast with Alberto Giubilini: Paternalism and public health challenges to patient autonomy
- Philosophy 24/7 podcast with Becky Brown: Eating responsibly
- Philosophy 24/7 podcast with Neil Levy: Responsibility and Addiction
- Philosophy 24/7 podcast with Hannah Maslen: Responsibility and effort
- Beyond Money: Conscientious Objection in Medicine as a Conflict of Interests
- Conscientious objection in healthcare and professional obligations
- Philosophy 24/7 podcast: doctors and their conscience!
- Human-animal hybrids are coming and could be used to grow organs for transplant – a philosopher weighs in
- This way or that WEH? - Facial recognition
- ‘Moralidade e emoções’ – BeGOOD in Brazil
- Philosophy from Oxford University Press: Best of 2019
- Action needed to ensure research is carried out ethically in global health emergencies
- Rethinking Moral Status
- Bioethics Game Launch
- Hold on tight for a journey into the unknown
- Infectious disease experts provide evidence for a coronavirus mobile app for instant contact tracing
- Controlling coronavirus transmission using a mobile app to trace close proximity contacts
- Digital contact tracing can slow or even stop coronavirus transmission and ease us out of lockdown
- Covid19 - Should doctors and nurses keep working if they lack personal protective equipment?
- Is the coronavirus pandemic worse for women?
- Covid 19 | Triage in an Italian ICU During the Pandemic
- What caused the coronavirus pandemic? Interview with Peter Singer.
- Thinking Out Loud: Corona Edition
- Invalids on the Move: In conversation with Sally Shuttleworth and Erica Charters
- COVID-19: Insights from history
- National Ethics Framework For Use in Acute Paediatric Settings During COVID-19 Pandemic
- What are the current UK lockdown measures, and how should we interpret them?
- Measuring the measures: how can we, and should we, assess the physical and mental health impact of exercise restrictions in the past, the present, and the future?
- Peer Support Training for Adolescents During the COVID-19 Outbreak
- The impacts of exercise restriction and prescription on mental health during, and after, the UK lockdown
- Beyond fake and real: exploring the world of genuine fakes with Patricia Kingori
- Indoors: A reflection of older people’s experiences during lockdown
- COVID vaccines: countries have a history of acting selfishly – and when they do, everyone loses out
- Should we allow whole genome sequencing of new-born babies?
- Whole-genome sequencing of newborns under the spotlight at Being Human Festival 2021
- Centre for Personalised Medicine Vlog with Nina Hallowell
- WEH at the Oxford-Amsterdam Winter School
- When does a crisis end? New project receives Wellcome funding to investigate.
- Ethical best practice in science communication and engagement