Bioethics Symposium (Jointly organized with Department of Philosophy)

Date: 14 March 2015 (Saturday)

Time: 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Venue: (Changed) Swire Hall 1, LG/F, Fung King Hey Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Map)

Presentations by:
(in alphabetical order of first names)

• Professor Alastair Campbell, Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics, National University of Singapore
• Professor Bonnie Steinbock, Vincent O’Lerary Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Albany
• Professor John Lizza, Professor of Philosophy, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
• Professor Paul Menzel, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Pacific Lutheran University

Registration: Closed

For more details:

• Flyer
• Programme Rundown
• Biographies of speakers and abstracts

Event recaps:

Presentation slides

• Does the Body Matter? Reflections on the Trade in Human Tissue and on’Aesthetic’ Medicine
• Why Brain Death is Death?
• Opting for Twins in IVF: What Does Proactive Responsibility Require?
• Comments on “Why Brain Death is Death”
• Interests, Consent, and the Provision of Food in Dementia
• Comments on “Interests, Consent, and the Provision of Food in Dementia”

Webcasts

Opening Remarks

Does the Body Matter? Reflections on the Trade in Human Tissue and on ‘Aesthetic’Medicine

Opting for Twins in IVF: What Does Procreative Responsibility Require?

Why Brain Death is Death

Interests, Consent, and the Provision of Food in Dementia

Enquiry:

Email: bioethics@med.cuhk.edu.hk

Tel.: 3943 9876