EmilyPostan
@emily_postan
Chancellor's Fellow in Bioethics, University of Edinburgh Law School, Deputy Director of the Mason Institute https://t.co/q2aP4jV9AS
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04-02-2016 15:26:14
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Join SJ Matthew J. Cull @technokatt and me on 3 April to discuss health AI and identity Edinburgh Science
edinburghscience.co.uk/event/identity…
Huge congratulations to the excellent Pete Mills on becoming new Director of PHG Foundation - a wonderful, and generous, colleague indeed.
.Jamie Webb reviews the launch of Emily Postan’s new book Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation (2022) thepolyphony.org/2023/05/22/emb…
Highly recommend this excellent conference to all PG bioethicists. PGBC is always fun, Edinburgh is beautiful. And this year's programme, developed by Jamie Webb and Emma Nance, is stellar.
Help shape future fertility law!
The survey looks at four areas where we think modernisation is most needed:
⚫ Patient safety and promoting good practice
⚫ Access to donor information,
⚫ Consent
⚫ Scientific developments
👉 bit.ly/3ZqOwIa
#FertilityTreatment
Here's the Call for Abstracts for our #LegalTheory seminar series in academic year 2023/24. If you'd like to discuss your research in one of our lively and friendly seminars, please submit your abstract by Monday 3rd April. Look forward to hearing from you - and please retweet!
Join us at 5.30pm on 8th March for the launch of ‘Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation’ where EmilyPostan will discuss her book with John B Appleby and Muriel Leuenberger. Details and registration here: law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/ev…
Who gets to be a person? Susan Wolf recently delved into this question in her John Locke Lecture on 'Selves like us'. Defining such thick and vague concepts is challenging and we should not aim for clear boundaries. Read on here:
Practical Ethics
blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2023/02/who-ge…
Join me and the excellent John B Appleby and Muriel Leuenberger to talk about how encountering info about our bodies shapes our identities. Launch of my Cambridge University Press monograph ‘Embodied Narratives’.
Edinburgh 8 March @masoninstitute Edinburgh Law School More details here tinyurl.com/ytmpc7wt
Can digital health democratise health care?
We are delighted to host Dr Tereza Hendl Tereza Hendl for a joint Centre for Biomed Self and Society and The Mason Institute online seminar on 3 November at 14.00 (UK). Register here to attend:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/can-digital-…