Current Issues in Medical Law & Ethics: Postgraduate Webinar Series - Vaccines and Covid-19
Location:
Virtual Event
Date/time
Wed 11 November 2020
14:00-16:00
*** Important: this event is open to postgraduate students, staff and researchers at the Universities of Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh. ***
Join postgraduate students, researchers and academics from the University of Edinburgh’s Mason Institute, the University of Manchester’s Centre for Social Ethics and Policy and the University of Bristol’s Centre for Health, Law and Society for the first of a FREE three-part webinar series examining current issues in medical law and ethics.
The first of these webinars will be led by Manchester, with Professor Søren Holm presenting his paper entitled: ‘Should we infect health volunteers with SARS-CoV-2 in “challenge studies” in order to speed up vaccine development?’
Professor Soren Holm holds degrees in Medicine, and in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the University of Copenhagen, an MA in Health Care Ethics and Law from the University of Manchester and a Diploma in Health Economics from the Danish Hospital Institute. He also holds a PhD and a higher Danish doctorate from the University of Copenhagen. He has been the President of the European Society for the Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, and President of the International Association of Bioethics. He is a former member of the Danish Council of Ethics and of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. He was the Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics 2004-2011 and since 2011, the Editor of the journal, Clinical Ethics.
This event is free and open to all but registration is required.
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