Ethox and WEH Seminar - Ethical preparedness and genomics in the headlines
Bobbie Farsides, Professor of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and Anneke Lucassen, Professor of Clinical Genetics, University of Southampton
Wednesday, 26 June 2019, 11am to 12.30pm
Seminar room 0, BDI, Old Road Campus, OX3 7LF
ABSTRACT
Bobbie Farsides and Anneke Lucassen are currently leading the Wellcome Trust funded Eppigen project. Utilising a variety of methodological approaches the project will explore conceptual and practical issues raised by the proliferation of genomic medicine in health care. With the recent flurry of publicity around direct to consumer testing and it’s place within the NHS as a backdrop, their paper will discuss one of the key organising concepts they are working on – the idea of ethical preparedness.
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