Professional Development Programme

Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students: engaging with the issues

Thursday 16th December, 2004

University of Leicester

This, the fourth of a series of meetings organised by the Special Interest Group on Teaching Ethics to Bioscience Students, was attended by over thirty delegates. Unlike earlier meetings, it focused on connecting ethical theory with real problems, through two workshops. The content of the day was as follows:

Programme

10.00	Registration; Tea and Coffee
10.20	Welcome and Introduction to the day
10.30	Methodologies in teaching ethics Roger Downie, University of Glasgow
11.00	Biomedical Ethics Workshop John Searle, President, Exeter and District Hospice This session included an introductory presentation on the theme followed by discussion in groups and feedback
12.30	Lunch
1.30	Environmental Ethics Workshop Christopher Southgate, University of Exeter This session included an introductory presentation on environmental ethics followed by discussion in groups with feedback to the audience. Case studies Environmental ethics resources and definitions
3.00	Refreshments
3.15	Swapshop - short presentations offered by delegates Ethics and Animal Experiments - Ben Mepham, Nottingham Bioethics Briefings - Chris Willmott, Leicester The case for teaching ethical theory: the need to teach thinking Presentation slides and Supporting text - Roger Pearce, Newcastle Project work in bioethics - John Bryant, Exeter
4.00	Closing discussion (finish at 4.30)

Event report (pdf)

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