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Personal responsibility versus legal obligation? Why simplistic binaries make for bad pandemic responses
12 Jul 2021 by John Coggon
In relation to pandemic policy in England, the absence of sustained ethical discourse at the level of government has created fundamental challenges to establishing how responsibility should be understood—practically, and as a matter of principle.
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Human genome editing and moral leadership: findings of the WHO Expert Advisory Committee
14 Jul 2021 by Peter Mills
In 2019, the World Health Organization convened an Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing. On Monday it published its findings in three reports: a position paper (summarising the findings), a set of recommendations and a framework for governance.
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We’re all talking about ethics (whether we realise it or not) – reflections on the importance of bioethics in public life and the role of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics
08 Sep 2021 by Danielle Hamm
Joining the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in Summer 2021 represents an important step towards a long-standing ambition of mine: to embed ethics in public policy. This ambition sparked a long time ago when I was working as a nursing auxiliary and studying for my philosophy degree.
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Consent, children under 16 and the Covid vaccine
14 Sep 2021 by Victoria Butler-Cole
The news that 12 to 15 year olds are to be offered Covid vaccines has led to a flurry of commentary about the question of consent. Around the UK, lawyers have been shouting at their phones, tablets and televisions, as people express surprise that children aged under 16 might be able to make their own medical treatment decisions, even though that has been the undisputed position for 35 years.
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How the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator is mobilising ethics expertise and public views on current and future pandemics
22 Sep 2021 by Hugh Whittall
The UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator is currently looking to commission research reviews on four topics related to the unequal impacts of the pandemic, self-reported data collection and international aid, and is recruiting a Communications and Public Affairs Manager.
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Organ donation week: 10 years on from our report on the ethics of donation, what has changed?
23 Sep 2021 by Sarah Walker-Robson
It’s organ donation week and the NHS are encouraging families to get together and talk about organ donation, a message we wholeheartedly support. It is also 10 years since we published our major report on the donation of human bodily material, which included substantial discussion about the ethics of organ donation.