The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is delighted to have been awarded a Public Engagement People Award by the Wellcome Trust to hold a deliberative workshop on the provision of bodily material for medical treatment and research.
Co-applicant Opinion Leader, a research-based consultancy, will jointly organise and facilitate the workshop, to be held on 26 July 2010 at the At Bristol Science Centre.
The workshop aims to find out the views of 40 people drawn from a cross-section of the UK community on the ethical issues raised by the provision of bodily material, such as organs, eggs and sperm, for medical treatment and research. At the event, the participants will discuss scenarios that demonstrate the range of ethical issues involved.
A detailed report of the outcomes will be produced and published on this website. The outcomes will form an important part of the evidence considered by the Council’s Working Party on human bodies in medicine and research, which will publish its findings in a report in autumn 2011.
We are very grateful to the Wellcome Trust and the At Bristol Science Centre for their support for this event.
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For more information contact Rikke Kristiansen at Opinion Leader on 020 7861 3208 or visit www.opinionleader.co.uk
