We explore ethical and societal issues in medicine, from development and implementation of new technologies/practices, through to how healthcare is delivered.

Coventry, England
Joined August 2018
Wendy Rogers - an inspirational bioethicist gets well-deserved recognition: nature.com/immersive/d41586-… See for example this stellar piece of research: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/2/…
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A message from one of our PhD students. Please feel free to share with others who may be interested.
Health researchers: do you spend frustrated hours re(drafting) information sheets? Given contradictory info on what to include? If you're interested in simplifying & reducing the length of information sheets please take part in my study: tinyurl.com/u9aa3ae #researchethics
Health researchers: do you spend frustrated hours re(drafting) information sheets? Given contradictory info on what to include? If you're interested in simplifying & reducing the length of information sheets please take part in my study: tinyurl.com/u9aa3ae #researchethics
We have some places left on our exciting 4 day course 'An Intensive Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making in Healthcare'. Please see bit.ly/2BcSZ8z for further information and details of how to register.
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Bioprinting human tissue may eventually solve the shortage of organs for transplantation, but we expect some complex and interesting ethical issues along the way...: BBC News - 'A new bladder made from my cells gave me my life back' bbc.co.uk/news/business-4547…
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Warwick Medicine, Ethics and Society retweeted
Replying to @BristolEthics
@BristolEthics @CBMER_KULeuven @BiomedSelfSoc @GHSMatKCL @WarwickMES @WEH_Oxford @EthicsPolicyLab @BioethicsUoM @BioethicsUK please help the @IMEPostgrad public engagement workshop in September be a success. The deadline for applications and bursaries is today @Arianna_Manzini
To all postgraduate students in #bioethics, medical #law & medical #humanities. We are organizing a free #publicengagement workshop for you with @BiomedSelfSoc! Dinner & one-night accommodation included. Bursaries available! Apply now at bit.ly/2dCmsNV Deadline 15th Aug
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Impressive results from DeepMind. Hopefully, AI will be used to free up clinical time for better human to human care (and not used to cut/freeze clinical posts). nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
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Pretty shocking: average life expectancy for women (unlike men) in UK (unlike rest of Europe) no longer increasing. UK Women can expect to spend longer in a state of poor health in later life than men. And to be poorer. Grim reading. bit.ly/2P1CLnQ
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We could not put it off any longer, so have finally embraced modern technology and set up a Twitter account. We're on a roll now: next stop, MySpace and FriendsReunited profiles.
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How an ex-Barcelona player's legal liver transplant is focusing attention on the human organ trade, by @greglikesorgans theconversation.com/how-an-e… via @ConversationUK