OPPE Lecture series
OPPE Lectures are aimed at professionals with an interest in biotechnology, ethics and public policy. These lectures are free and open to the public.
Friday
8 October 2004
Genes and Ingenuity: Genetic Research, Intellectual Property
and Human Health
Presented
by Professor David Weisbrot, President, Australian Law Reform Commission
Lectures are held 12 - 1pm
in the
Queensland Bioscience Precinct
(QBP) Auditorium
Building 80, St Lucia campus,
The University of Queensland
For further information please contact Dr Jayne Lucke: j.lucke@imb.uq.edu.au
Previous OPPE Lectures
2004
7
September 2004
Are you at risk for depression? (and do you want to
know?) Pitfalls in screening for susceptibility to depression
Presented by Professor Wayne Hall,
Director, Office of Public Policy and Ethics, Institute for Molecular
Bioscience, University of Queensland.
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
3
August 2004
Why Animals Don't Have Rights, And What They Do Have
Presented by Professor Jan Narveson, Professor
of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
13
July
2004
A Substance for All Seasons? The Ethics of Neuroenhancement
Presented
by Professor Wayne Hall, Directory, Office of Public Policy and
Ethics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
4 June
2004
Cloning Genes, Cloning Cells, Cloning People: Where are the Boundaries?
Presented by Professor Bob
Williamson, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and University
of Melbourne (IMB
Friday Seminar Series)
4
May 2004
Life Protracted or Protracted Woe? Life Extension and its Discontents
Presented by A/Professor Malcolm Parker,
Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, School of Medicine, The University
of Queensland
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
30
March 2004
DNA: A Biological Entity or Health Information? Implications for
our Health and Privacy
Presented by A/Professor John MacMillan,
Department of Medicine, The University of Queensland and Senior Staff
Specialist,
Queensland Clinical Genetics Service
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
6 April 2004
Uncovering Addiction: Ethical and Policy Implications of Genetics
and Neuroscience Research
Presented by Professor Wayne Hall, Directory,
Office of Public Policy and Ethics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences,
The University of Queensland
For full details please refer to flier(PDF)
2 March 2004
Representative Ethics in Genomic Policy
Presented by
Professor Michael Burgess, Professor and Chair in Biomedical Ethics,
W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics and Department of Medical
Genetics, University of British Columbia
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
2003
8 December 2003
Genetic Risk Information: Can it Motivate Behaviour Change?
Presented by
Professor Theresa Marteau, Professor of Health Psychology and Director
of the
Psychology and Genetics Research Group, King's College London
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
6 October 2003
The Popular Press and Genetics Policies: The Nature and Impact
of "Genohype"
Presented by
A/Professor Timothy Caufield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and
Policy,
University of Alberta, Canada
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
22 September 2003
What are the Key Messages in Genetics and how can we Broadcast
them?
Presented by
Dr Kristine Barlow-Stewart, Director, Centre for Genetics
Education, NSW Genetics Service
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
24 July 2003
Better People Through Better Technology
Presented by
A/Professor Carl Elliott, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
19 June 2003
Biotechnology, genetics and tobacco control: an ethical and
policy analysis of some feasible scenarios
Presented by
Professor Wayne Hall - Director, Office of Public Policy and Ethics,
IMB
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
11 April 2003
A Bigger Voice? Engaging Citizens with Life Science Questions
Presented by
Dr Tom Shakespeare - Director of Outreach, PEALS Research Institute, UK
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
14 March 2003
Patently Justified? Gene Patents, Ethics and Public Policy
Presented by
Prof Wayne Hall - Director, Office of Public Policy and Ethics, IMB
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
13 February 2003
'Attack of the Clones': Patent Law and Stem Cell Research
Presented by
Dr Matthew Rimmer - Faculty of Law, Australian National University
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
2002
14 November 2002
'Miracle in Iowa': Metaphor, Analogy and Anachronism in the
History of Bioethics
Presented by Dr Sarah Ferber - Department of History, UQ
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
5 September 2002
The Stem Cell Debate
Presented by A/Prof Melissa Little - Developmental Biologist, Institute
for Molecular Bioscience
and
Prof Wayne Hall - Director,
OPPE
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
8 August 2002
Susceptibility Genes: Ethical and Public Policy Implications of
Genetic Testing
Presented by A/Prof John MacMillan - Director, Queensland Clinical Genetics
Service
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
10 May 2002
Unravelling the Problem of Genetic Discrimination: Legal and
Ethical Perspectives
Presented by A/Prof Margaret Otlowski - Centre for Law and Genetics,
University of Tasmania
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
16 April 2002
In Your Nose Ethics: The Ethics of Vaccinating Against Cocaine
Presented by Prof Wayne Hall - Director, OPPE
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
19 March 2002
Using Genetics for the Identification of Victims of Human
Rights Violations
Presented by Dr Michele
Harvey-Blankenship - University of Toronto
For full details please refer to flier (PDF)
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Last updated: 17 February 2004