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Regulating UK Bioethics

Regulating UK Bioethics. Jonathan Montgomery 20 July 2012. History. Health Professionalism BMA, Royal Colleges Kennedy challenge in Reith Lectures Bureaucratic bioethics Warnock – HFEA Nuffield Council on Bioethics Human Genetics Commission Post-bureaucratic bioethics

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Regulating UK Bioethics

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  1. Regulating UK Bioethics Jonathan Montgomery 20 July 2012

  2. History • Health Professionalism • BMA, Royal Colleges • Kennedy challenge in Reith Lectures • Bureaucratic bioethics • Warnock – HFEA • Nuffield Council on Bioethics • Human Genetics Commission • Post-bureaucratic bioethics • The bonfire of the Quangos

  3. Issues? • Explanations offered • Cost • Legitimacy • Evidence, rigour & politics • Presumed consent or ‘opt-out’ to organ donation in England & Wales • ‘Condemnation’ - a retreat from evidence-based decision-making?

  4. Phoenix possibilities • Personalisation • Bioethics as a private matter • Privatisation • Demos, Pratchett & Assisted Dying • Big Society? • Democratisation • Parliamentary committee

  5. Creating the future • Emerging Science and Bioethics Advisory Committee (ESBAC) • NCoB • Rigour • Stakeholders • Public debate • Faith Communities…

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