Human bodies: animal bodies

News and Events

19/09/12: John Harris comments in The Guardian on the HFEA consultation on mitochondrial disease therapy: Misleading talk of 'three-parent babies' helps no one

Sarah Chan talks about the '100 most endangered' list on Radio 4's Today Programme (mp3). See also blog: Endangered species: Yes, we should care – but why?

iSEI is moving to the Faculty of Life Sciences, to join in addressing research Grand Challenges

Public lecture: What it’s like to be good – Neuroscience, ethics and law, by John Harris, 20 March, email Maureen.Barlow@manchester.ac.uk to register

Mind reading and memory manipulation? John Harris discusses the ethical dilemmas raised by advances in neuroscience in The Guardian, 9 February 2012 and on the iSEI blog

“We have an organ donation crisis so pay people to give”, writes John Harris in The Times, 31 January 2012 and on the iSEI blog

Grant awarded by AHRC for an interdisciplinary network on teaching ethics for neuroscientists. Email isei@manchester.ac.uk to stay informed

Academia Europaea honour for John Harris

Online CPD in ethics and law – announcing new dates and more courses

The human body, its scope limits and future – iSEI’s research programme featured on Wellcome Trust blog

Impact

Our Research in Action

Human bodies: animal bodies in association with the Academy of Medical Sciences (November and July 2011)

Brain Waves, a series of reports by the Royal Society, with contributions on ‘Neuroethics’ and ‘Neuroscience and the Law’ (January and December 2011)

Stem cell science policy report on governing data, sharing materials and intellectual property, by international consortium the Hinxton Group (January 2011)

Who owns science? The Manchester Manifesto group statement (November 2009)

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